Apples tagged me for Mother’s Day.

The rules are as simple as this:

(1) Post a photo of you and your mom together (recent or old) and write the words “I heart my mom” across it (or type the text below the photo if you don’t feel like opening your image-editing software).

(2) Tag your friends!

I went through my computer files and found this pic of me with my Mom, taken Christmas of 2006. You’d think I had already outgrown snuggling with Mom, huh? Well, it’s been a while and I thought that was a good time as any to be just a daughter with her mother.

I my MOM!

As we were growing up, our Mom was the glue that held us all together. Here are some of my memories of her being a Mommy of mommies:

– sitting patiently outside my Grade 1 classroom (I was in a new school and was terrified of being left alone)

– crocheted our first bathing suits (I need to look for pics of those!) and later, knitted several blouses for me and my sisters and sewed many of our clothes

– prepared warm milk for all of us each night before bedtime

– loved to “talk, talk” with me when my siblings were already asleep

– made some of the best desserts I could remember — like Floating Island (a leche flan-like dessert topped with eggwhites that were beaten up into fluffs and were mixed in different food colorings)

– was present in all my major school activities

– cut out paper dolls for me whenever I was sick and bored to death

– played the piano in spontaneous and frequent “concerts” at home while my sister and I twirled here and there in our ballet outfits

– would lovingly give me sponge baths whenever I ran a high fever

– bought me and my siblings a whole stack of our favorite comics for the long boat trip from Davao to Manila

– swatted mosquitoes together with my Dad while waiting in the car for me on a late night when I was a budding auditor working past midnight at a client’s

– never failed to pray the rosary nightly, naming all of us one by one at the end of her prayers as she lifted us to the Lord for His protection and blessing (she still does this to this day and her list now includes our children)

I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH, MOM! And that goes for everyone in the family. I am trying to be as good a Mommy to our kids as you were to me.

Well I choose not to do Rule # 2, seeing that all my mommy bloggers have already published their Mother’s Day posts. So I guess this game of tag stops here, at least with me.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all the mommy bloggers out there as well as to the mommies of whoever stumble upon this blog post!!!!