{"id":138,"date":"2014-08-26T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-mommy\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T17:43:27","slug":"dear-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-mommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a year already (and almost 2 on December)  and still it feels like it just happened yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I know that this would never reach you but I&#8217;m still writing anyway.. I really miss you, Mommy \ud83d\ude41 You&#8217;ve left me so suddenly. Now that you&#8217;re gone, I don&#8217;t have someone to hug to or play jokes at (Sorry about that. Haha) Not to mention, I really feel like I&#8217;m an orphan now. Haha. Kidding aside&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My Mommy, my grandmother. The person who took care of me ever since I was a baby. The person who treated me as her own child. I just want to say, thank you and I&#8217;m sorry. Thank you very much for your unending love and patience for even though I&#8217;ve been a pain in the head, you still took care of me and never left me. Thank you very much because you taught me how to be the person I am today. Thank you very much for making me feel that I am loved and I am special. Thank you very much for being my mother and my father. Thank you very much for always taking my side whenever I argue with my cousins. (HEHE)  And I&#8217;m sorry for all of my shortcomings. I made promises to you that I haven&#8217;t granted. I promised that I&#8217;ll buy a van so that every single person in our family can join us in our road trip. I promised you that after I graduated from college, we&#8217;ll go to my mom and be with her finally. I have had so many promises and I wasn&#8217;t able to fulfill it. I&#8217;m really sorry. I&#8217;m sorry for everything. I&#8217;m sorry I disappointed you. I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t show how much I appreciate you and how much I love you, Mommy. I&#8217;m really sorry for taking you for granted. \ud83d\ude41 I&#8217;ve always thought that you&#8217;ll always be there for me and you&#8217;d never leave me. But then again, you&#8217;re gone too soon. \ud83d\ude41 I&#8217;m sorry that &#8217;til your last days I wasn&#8217;t there for you. I&#8217;m sorry I stayed at my dorm instead of going home to take care of you. I&#8217;m sorry that whenever I&#8217;m home I was scared to go near you because I was frightened to see you like that. You&#8217;re not waking up and you&#8217;re always asleep. I&#8217;m really sorry, Mommy. I have so many regrets right now and I don&#8217;t know how to ease the pain. I&#8217;m sorry. But I am thankful and really grateful that you&#8217;re my Mommy. YOU&#8217;RE THE BEST GRANDMOTHER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD! :&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>I remember our last few moments before you passed&#8230; That night when I went to the hospital you&#8217;re staying at, after my classes. Our conversation went like this (I&#8217;ll never forget it. I&#8217;ll always remember it):<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Mommy, get well soon. Please?&#8221;<br \/>\nYou: &#8220;Of course, I will. I&#8217;m going to your graduation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really want to cry there and then. You didn&#8217;t know that you already have Stage 4 Cancer &#8211; Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. My aunts and uncles didn&#8217;t want to let you know that because you&#8217;ll get scared and your condition might worsen. And so that evening, do you remember? I didn&#8217;t go home and stayed at the hospital and I slept beside you because I was really hurt and worried about you. Then eventually, I  had to go back to the dorm because of my classes. :(( After a week when I came back home (you&#8217;re not hospitalized anymore), we also had our last lunch together. I was really happy then that you still remember me (You&#8217;ve forgotten a lot of details about our family already). Then I needed to go back to school. \ud83d\ude41 Geez, I just realized how school sucks then. I can&#8217;t really focus and I still had to attend classes. I&#8217;m always worried about you. \ud83d\ude41 Then when I went home, that&#8217;s the time they told me that you do not wake up anymore. That you&#8217;re always sleeping. It pains me, Mommy \ud83d\ude41 After a week again when I received a text messaged saying that you&#8217;re gone already and I shouldn&#8217;t freak out because I&#8217;m far away from home. That day Mommy, I went home immediately. From then til now, it hasn&#8217;t really sunk in that you&#8217;re gone. Everything was too fast like everything came in such a hurry. Same month when you were diagnosed of cancer and when you passed. It was really fast, Mommy. It really was. Everyone hasn&#8217;t even moved on with your passing. Everyone is still talking about you and how everyone misses you. You left a mark in everybody&#8217;s hearts, Mommy. I just want you to know how great of a person you are and I know that wherever you are, you are in your happy place now. :&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still so much to say, Mommy but this is too long already. Haha. :)) I hope that  you still visit me in my dreams because I really miss you and I really need your hug right now. Thank you very much, Mommy and I love you so much to the moon and the whole universe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a year already (and almost 2 on December) and still it feels like it just happened yesterday. I know that this would never reach you but I&#8217;m still writing anyway.. I really miss you, Mommy \ud83d\ude41 You&#8217;ve left me so suddenly. Now that you&#8217;re gone, I don&#8217;t have someone to hug to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-letters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}