Mother's Day Galore

"A mother is she who can take the place of others, but whose place no one else can take"

--Cardinal Mermilloid--

Two of the greatest Mom on Earth
Tita Myla and My MOM :)

Second Sunday of May is always celebrated in the whole world for Mother's Day. Actually last week of April or beginning of May you can actually feel that theme with all sales on the mall regarding mother's day and all the advertisement on the televisions or in print pertaining to motherhood and how we should always be thankful to one of the most influential woman in our life, our Mother. 

Since Tita Myla is having a vacation at home and in time with Mother's Day we decided to celebrate it by going out and not our traditional mother's day celebration of just ordering out and just give Mama something as a gift. We started our day with attending the mass. It was really funny how my mom and tita did really prepare for the mass. They actually wear a semi-formal wear, with all the make up and jewelries which was out of the ordinary. It was a fun way to start the day because the pries gives special blessings for the mothers on thier special day and there was a song number that was specially prepared. The song was the classic song "Duyan ni Nanay" and for me it is always magical that even the song was played numerous times for different occasions, the feeling and the message always touch the heart. 

As for the place, we went to SM Manila because my mom suggested that after few hours of malling, we can go to Luneta Park so that Maui and Troy can experience the Rizal Park adventure. My cousins are actualoly having a vacation at home and they stay at Mindoro, so  we always tend to make them pasyal as much as possible and let them experience some Manila time moments. The first thing that caught our attention when we eneter the mall was the huge sign of Happy Mother's Day 2012 and stage that we really took a picture behind it for souevnier purposes which came out well. 

Jarf , Mama, Me and Dara together with Maui 

Maui, Tita Myla, and Troy

We arrive exactly for Lunch time so after some picture taking on some of MOther's day related background we ate at Mang Inasal, which was a furst for Tita Myla, Nestroy and Maui. Its a good thing that they did enjoy the meal. 

Tita Myla enjoying her Mang Inasal experience with "sarap to the bones" expression

 Next stop? SHOPPING!!!!. This is the only thing that I enjoyed even though I didn't buy anything for myself. The joy of looking at good stuff was really fun for me, I don't know why. My mom was doing an early shopping for uniform, school stuff. Ofcourse, my toka is looking for something good and "bagay" to my brothers (my mom probably thinks that the stuffs we (Dara and me) are expensive 'coz we are girls so we didn't buy much for ourselves.) which makes a little bit jealous. We also bought mom a new pair of doll shoes which she pick out herself, she was actually worried that we don't have money to buy it (what do you think of us ? POOR? hahaha!!!)

After the tiresome yet fun shopping, we went to Luneta PArk, and gosh the park was filled with a lot od people. What do we expect, since its Sunday and also MOther's DAy, a lot of familes celebrated the occasion there. We watched the dancing fountain, played the colorful toy that can be thrown in mid-air, eat some pizza, and of course take a lot of pictures.

The kids and Tita Myla enjoying the dancing fountain

                                 

It was a day so fun, filled with good memories and new experience. Next year I hope that we could celebrate it again with a different style, different memories but same people and same feelings :)

Tita Myla posing with the roses the kids gave her for mother's day

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
--Washington Irving