Sunday is the best day of the week. Do you agree? Usually everyone, though not all, doesn’t have work during this day, thus this is the great time for family bondings, outings, gatherings, or even a date with your special one. Everyone got excited for this day to come, because it’s the day where they can spend with their family. My husband and I used to date a lot on Sunday, during our boyfriend and girlfriend stage. I am sure everyone can relate to this. Of course you do? Yesterday, I was hoping we can get out of the house today and visit one of our favourite person in the world, my late mother in law. I have written an article about her. If you want to read about it kindly check this link

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Sunday’s Best

It was a fine Sunday afternoon, our favorite day of the week since we were going to visit mame my late mother in law at the cemetery. My husband Anthony, whenever he was on vacation, never missed every week to visit his favourite Mame in the wholewide world. Mama’s boy? Perhaps no, according to him, her mother sacrificed the most during their younger years. She worked hard so that she can feed her five children, all boys. His father on the other hand, base from my husband’s story has been a pain in the a** during those years. But of course Dade, my father in law has completely changed way before Mame was gone. You could tell that my husband, along with his brothers were super close to their mother. They treat her as the queen as she was the only girl in the family. And losing her few years back was really a painful one. So even though Mame was in a better place right now, Anthony and his brothers make it sure to visit her from time to time.

Bonding Moments

We were going to meet the rest of the family in the cemetery. Before we left the house, I checked the messenger if there was a pending message from them. When the lockdowns started last year, going to the cemetery was the only time my kids was able to go out. We were a little worried because the location of the cemetery was in San Mateo, Rizal. It was no longer part of NCR so we have to pass through some checkpoints before we can make it to the cemetery. Luckily, we never met unnecessary incidents with regards to checkpoints in the whole duration of lockdowns. When some of the lockdowns restrictions were lifted up, we always see to it that we can visit mame at the cemetery during Sunday afternoon. We love it there because literally it’s peaceful over there. 😁

We usually went at around 4 to 5 in the afternoon, by that time the heat of the sun wasn’t bad for the skin. We stay there up until the cemetery closes or when it’s started to get dark. There’s a lot of things that can be done inside the cemetery because of its wide area. There were a lot of kids playing and running. Some were bringing their bicycles, in fact my youngest son learned to drive his bicycles without its training wheels here. And if you want to burn some carbs you can also do jogging and walking along the area. The large area is good for driving lesson too, I even tried to learn, unfortunately I think it wasn’t my time yet. Sadly, driving lesson within the vicinity was prohibited now. Of all the activities I mentioned, watching the sunset stays the best. Upon staying in noise, someone shared that the person who loves sunset is called opacarophile. Are you an opacarophile too?

Missing loved ones

It’s been three weeks since the last time we visit mame. I thought that we could make it today, but something bad happened earlier this morning. My brother in law and his wife are going through a bad situation. It’s very personal matter to share, but if she allowed me, I might share it to you. Nah, of course it’s their story to tell not mine. I just hope, everything will be fine in the next couple of days. The reason I mentioned them, because their lost son was also buried in the same place where my mother in law was buried.

Closing Thoughts

It has been said that “ The ones we love were never gone, they live forever in our hearts”. This is very true to everyone of us. We even celebrate our lost loved ones birthday as if they were with us. During all souls day, cemetery was always full of people and it’s been a tradition that has been passed to every generation. And as a parent I might also passed this kind of tradition to my kids and to their future families.

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All images used were mine except for the Lead image which is from Unsplash.