10 May 2026

 Mother's Day hits different for me now. 

Last year when I was pregnant and people started greeting me Happy Mother's Day, I was really excited. I felt honored. I felt seen. 

This year, as the main caregiver of our 6-month old baby, I can't really say it is a fun thing to do. With all the bodily changes, the hormonal somersaults, the pains, the lost of sleep, the self-reinvention that needs to be done, the self expectations that had been built--- painful. For some, it may have been easy to let go, for others, it was tough. For me, I emerged from the tough side of letting go. But I am eventually able to learn to take the path of rebuilding my self and the new identity I have alongside those I would like to keep being. 

Being here today and for everyday of my life,  I would like to hug my mom more and more, she carried and took care of 6 of us and still is, in many ways, acts and prayers and I may have heard her complained but she never stopped showing her love and devotion to all of us. Never had she turned her back and never had she given up on any of us. 

I do know that it all gets better over time and definitely, happy and happier. So still, Happy Mother's Day to all moms out there, by choice, by circumstance, by blessing, whatever it may be, we are mothers because we deserve to be one. The best job in the whole wide world.