OUR WEAKNESS ?

OUR WEAKNESS

Yesterday, I told Lizzie to focus on what her teacher was saying....I asked her not to think of me, her mom and her siblings while she was in school....again, I said just focus on the teacher....then she showed me a group of circular shaped erasers from her bag.....they were like "smileys" with different facial expressions....on the back of each eraser, she wrote the following names....."Mom", "A-chie", "A-hia", "Ang-kong", "A-ma" and for her favorite eraser wherein "smiley" had glasses, she wrote "Daddy"....she told me she would look at these erasers whenever she would miss us....then we hugged each other.

Some people would call us over-sentimental....because all of my kids, even Mary Nicole and Niccolo have remained incredibly close and sweet to me and my wife Dinah. I and my sister Adeline have remained close to my parents as well....Some people refer to this sentimentality as our weakness....I have not tried to go abroad, as a physician or as a pharmacist, in great part, because I could not leave my 84 year old father and my 76 year old mother to my older brother. I told my wife, if I did leave them, I would think of them every single day, wondering how they are....so again, people would call this a weakness.

My parents never went abroad, even when they could afford it, unless we were with them....their barkadas were their children....
Now my best friend is my wife and my barkadas are Nicole, Niccolo and Lizzie, and I could never sleep away from them, not even for a single day.

Again....could this be our weakness?

Whenever problems, no matter, how severe, would hit us...we would always have each other's back....of course, we've also had the help of generous and loving relatives and friends....but....never underestimate....
the comfort of a shoulder to cry on....
the effect of a warm and tight embrace,
the magic of a sincere and loving kiss....
the power of a family laughing, crying
and praying together....
these are the intangibles....
there is no value that you can place on this.....

The love that exists in a family.....this is unbeatable.....

The love, the closeness, the sweetness that we have......
THIS IS OUR STRENGTH!