We are simply AWESOME

I don't know what is so good about the month of June that brides rush out to get wed on this rainy month.
For my family, it is not a month when my parents got married (they got married on the equally rainy month of July), but a month when we celebrate my mom and dad's birthdays.

My mom, born on June 16 found the love of her life to my dad, born June 30. It is also amazing to note that they were born the same year. 1957.

Papa Felino and Mama Luth

OK. So my parents don't do glamour shots. I still have lots to teach them about how to pose and smile for the camera.

Well, my mom and my dad were blessed with 3 awesome and amazing kids. Who, lack talent, most of the time shy, thin, let's say intelligent, wacky, and to top it all off, lazy?

When I said, awesome and amazing, I think I was not referring to me and my siblings right?

So why say amazing and awesome when, we don't have the character to meet the description?

Me

Let me tell you a story of a not too distant past.

Me and my sibling would OFTEN quarrel because of some silly 'who gets the most share', 'who gets to wash the dishes tonight', 'who cleans the windows, the toilet, and dust all the cabinets', and surely I could name a lot. In summary, we have sibling rivalry.

But for the most part of our childhood, got along. Except when we have those momentary (insert what I just said).


We would often spend our lazy weekend afternoons by pushing one sibling to cook pancit canton and would eat as though we have a pancit-canton-eating-contest.

my sister, Tin

As a family, we are not used to telling stories about ourselves.

We talk about other people. We were not raised to tell our deepest thoughts and feelings.

But when I think about it, I think we have this family telepathy thing going on that even though we don't say anything, we know.



We, my siblings and I moved far from home to fulfill our dreams of - working in Manila. What a dream you might say. And this is the part when we got AWESOME-ER.

Why?

Because, even though we don't talk everyday nor don't see each other often, we talk were we left off.

my brother, Christian

We go home to Baguio and try to squeeze ourselves in our parent's bed just so we could spend more time with them. Sleep in the living room with my cousin (who lives next door), plan trips, eat out, go to church.


The Lord had wonderfully planned how our family will turn out to be the best family that we will need and will glorify God.


We may not be the richest people in terms of money, but on how we stay, argue and love as a family, I know I could not ask for anything more.


I think my mom and my dad did the best they could to raise us up to what and who we are now. And I thank God for just how awesome He is.