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🧶 Mom Len's Loops: Stories Behind The Stitches

August 2026

Last Monday, August 31, we went out for a simple August birthmonth celebration of  Tenten, Yeye, and my two granddaughters. 

I woke up late.

So late that I didn’t even have time to prepare for what I should wear.

Usually, before heading out, I would have taken a picture, sent it to my children, and asked, “Okay ba ito?”

Not this time.

I just grabbed something from the closet, put on my jeans, slipped into my flats, picked up this little crocheted crossbody bag—and that’s it!

Eight Years, Two Songs, One Memory

⏳ From the Journals: September 2, 2016

It was September 1, 2016. My children walked through my room’s door that evening carrying a bouquet of flowers.

The card tucked inside read:

Mommy, 

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! LOVE YOU ALWAYS! 

❤️ Daddy 😊
And… Noknok & Ji, Ningning & JC, Tenten, Yeye

I wasn’t expecting it at all because my children had already greeted me earlier in the day. It was our 31st wedding anniversary—and my second one navigating the day without Rey.

There was no celebration. There was no dinner out. I just stayed home—perhaps a little sad, but not to wallow.

Vulnerability Is Not About Being Weak

 June 2017

Status is just a perceived thing.

Vulnerability is not about being weak. It is not about being needy. It is about being honest to your emotions and your feelings.

Reading it again now, I find myself wondering what exactly was going through my mind when I wrote those words.

Perhaps I was thinking about how easily we can become conscious of how other people see us.

Our position.
Our accomplishments.
Our image.
The person everyone thinks we are.

The Cellphone, The Rainbow and a Nanay’s Sermon

 October 18, 2017

After getting her annual allowance, Yeye bought a laptop for herself; said she needed it for her SP/thesis. The laptop which her eldest brother passed on to her was getting “inefficient” already. 

Aside from the laptop, one of her priorities was to have her iphone repaired. I think the laptop was secondary. It’s been months and her hope was high that it can be restored. Still functioning but no backlight, not LCD tho, as per technician, “kelangan pong palitan ang ‘ic light’, mga 5-7 days.”

The Never-Ending Learning: Every Ending, a New Beginning

Last night, after a joint praise and worship in another town, some members of the choir had a late-night kwentuhan over a cup of coffee at my place. We talked about moments in the past and recalled experiences from way, way back.

This one topic, which became our closing conversation for the night—no, it was already early morning—stayed with me through the night and into the morning.