Happy Father's Day To Moms!

Since its Father's Day and I could not stress more of how pleased I am to have a loving father at my side, let me take this opportunity to blog about women who bravely accepted the title of being a "mom" and a "dad" altogether. I am one of them, and I know a lot of them.

I am not comfortable talking about my marriage, not because it hurts but because the lack of such "feeling" somehow left me confused. Don't get me wrong, I loved my husband. But later I realized that love alone cannot make the world go round. Thanks for my father who let me realized that girls are supposed to be priced and loved.

So fast forward...

One of the questions I have to deal with when I woke up one day and realized that our marriage is truly over is, how I am going to explain this to my kids? How could I assure them that they are loved even after they were left? Worse, how could I fathom the idea of raising kids alone and still think that everything's going to be alright? Questions frighten me.

Raising kids alone is no joke. Any single mom would agree how difficult it is to ensure that your kid's needs are met while keeping enough time for yourself to ensure that you do not lose your own life along the way. I never perfected the challenge. Somewhere along the way, I always find myself suffering from sickness because of too much working. It is never easy but its worth it.

I was just lucky that my kids were able to adjust with me. Somehow, they were able to accept that this is their family, even though it composes of just a mom, a brother and a sister. They take care of me as much as I take care of them. Like today, I have this bad flu. I've been suffering from this since Thursday night and boy its really bad! To my surprise, my kids volunteered to be my nurse. They saw a watch which happen to play a song when you press on it, and gave it to me. I just press on it and viola, the two will come rushing at my bedside. They would ask about my needs and make sure they gave them (of course, with their yaya's supervision).

Being a father and a mother at the same time is not easy, but the kids make all the work bearable.