Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is FAMILY.
The topic of family is a topic very close to the heart of everyone. Family does not mean just blood relations like parents and their children or the extended family members. People close to our hearts and people who we can rely on when times are both good and bad are considered as family.
My husband and I live close to his family home. My parents live a little far from us so we are not able to visit them as often as we would have wanted to. When the children have school break, they spend time with my parents.
The road below is the road that brings us closer to my family.
Here in the Philippines, there are a lot of families that do not stay together. More often the father or the mother or sometimes both, live far from their children due to economic reasons. A lot of these parents even work overseas or work in the city so that they could send money back to their family members for expenses.
One proof would be at the airport, when one can see so many families saying goodbye to their Delsey luggage carrying loved ones who will go overseas to work.
One can also see Filipino families eagerly awaiting a relative, a Filipino Overseas Worker (OFW) hauling a big and heavy Balikbayan box full of goodies for family members.
Ironic but they leave behind their children and/or their parents, to care for the children and parents of other people as nurses, caregivers, domestic helpers and even teachers like me.
I too have plans of leaving the country to search for greener pastures so to speak. I am still weighing my options but there are good offers for teachers like me to bring my family where I am qualified to work.
For now, my husband and I savour the wonderful times that we are able to spend with our family.
The children may have squabbles at times, or we may be too tired to listen to each child who wants to tell us something, but at the end of the day, we are able to thank God that we are still together and that no matter what happens, we love each other. That is all that really matters, isn’t it?
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happy weekend! miss na kita! hindi tayo nagaabot sa plurk.