a mother's love part 1

What can you say about the love of a mother for her children?

Time to check. It was 5:03 in the morning with a lot of thoughts in my mind.

This will be just part 1 of how her memories remain in my heart. She just pass away almost 3 weeks. I can barely remember all the stories she told me when she was still alive. I wrote an article about her.

https://read.cash/@eve/days-in-the-hospital-50052bd0

This is the story of how she became my mother-in-law.

https://read.cash/@eve/my-partner-in-life-10e7cb4a

It's been 6 years since the first time I met this old woman. She is just 75. I was applying to be her caregiver, and the rest is to be untold in how she loves her 6 children.

During the time that I am with her, my feelings for her were like a daughter to a mother who needs care and attention as a caregiver I know that it is not easy to give care to an old woman with a disability, she was stroke for almost 10 years when we met. As the days go by I observe that she had a lot of sadness in life being alone with no children or grandchildren, not a typical type of family in the Philippines when their mother got old the children is with them, until I found out the reason why she decided to be alone and hired a caregiver. She likes to tell stories about the past on how she achieved most of her properties.

A mother as a breadwinner.

She told me that ever since she was still a teenager, most of the advice from her mother about life is barely in her mind that's why at a very young age all in her mind is to have a comfortable life. She came from a well-known family in her province because her parents had a lot of land that's why she lives a comfortable life but life changed when she got married and had a 7th child, she had twins but the one died at the of five because of pneumonia and polio. She started to own a small store until it grows into a grocery most of her time is always in the business of how to make money for her children because she said that her husband cannot support all the needs of the family. At that time she needs to be so smart in handling the budget for the food on how she divided fish in two just to get by. It was such a long journey before she achieve a comfortable life.

A very disciplinary mother.

She was very strict in terms of how she disciplined her children because most of the time she was busy in her stores that's why all of her children must know how to help with house chores even if she had 3 boys at that time they are the one who works in the house. There was a time when her son asked for ice cream while she was busy in the store, then he gave his son a lot until he vomited the ice cream, even at a young age most of her sons cannot leave until they finished all the chores. He also mentions that she had a son who is so stubborn even if she spunk it with the dried branch of guava will never obey her command.

In part 2 of this article, you will know how she loves all her children as well all her grand grand children