But most importantly, I am grateful for love.

(I can’t believe I’ve only written in my journal once the whoooooole of April! There’s so much to tell!! But that’s fine. I am a busy mom. I am a busy breastfeeding mom. So I am excused, okay???)

Anyway, I just want to write really quick on here because my heart is really happy and grateful.

As you know, my sister and I are very close to my mom. She raised us while my dad worked abroad. And also, you would know that my dad passed away in 2019, so it’s really just the three of us now. So it has been in my constant prayer to be with someone (aka marry) who will accept that me and my mom comes in package. I want to live with my mom, I want to grow old with her, I want to take care of her when’s she’s older. I want to be with her for the rest of our lives. You see, my sister is based abroad so I am really the one in charge of my mom. Although of course she can visit my sister anytime, meet her anywhere in the world she currently is, but at the end of the day, I want my mom to come home to me.

I live with my husband now, my mom stays in our Manila residence, and we recently purchased a house in the south. So it made the living set up a little bit complicated. Where would she stay? Obviously she wants to live in the city. But what about the house in the south? Who’ll stay with her when she’s there? And so on and so forth.

But to cut the long story short… my prayer has been granted. As always.

I love my husband for a loooot of reasons.
But I love him even more because he loves my mom as his own.

My mom has been our official third wheel. I know a lot of people would tell me na once you’re married, it should be you and your husband, you should now focus on your own family, bla bla bla. I know that. We know that. But my husband, he knows how much I love my mom. And every chance he get, he always want to make sure that my mom is still present in my life.

My husband is a family man. I see how he takes care of his dad, he respects his siblings, he takes care of our family. What a blessing to know that there is still a man like him, and I get to call him my husband, and the father of my son.

Do you realize how important that is, especially that we have a son?? (Regardless of gender, actually.)

I am grateful for the little family we have created, we are creating. And I am most confident that we’ll raise a good human being, because I chose a good man.