Family Holiday Celebration

Our usual New Year's family gathering with my most loved people in my life! This family is the reason why I am always homesick and longing to be back in the Philippines. What I love about my big family is that no matter what happens, we have always stuck together. Kahit pa nagkakasigawan and nagkakamurahan yan (as they are the emotional and violent type), just give them a few weeks' space then they'd patch things together and all the hatred would be bygones. No one holds grudges against each other, despite the really grave offenses some might bring to others (that really are unthinkable already to other people). It's nice that we remain a strongly-intact family that sincerely loves & cares for each other. And since I was a kid, I've always been comforted to know that whatever happens, I have this family who will fight for me to death.

Someday, when I have my own children, I will definitely return to the Philippines so that my kids can grow up with my big family and enjoy growing up with their cousins and loving them as own siblings, and have a super happy childhood like I did.