THE MOMENT I WAKE UP, BEFORE I PUT ON MY MAKE-UP


'Babay mylab! Labyu!'

'Ingat ka. Labyu!'

If that exchange happened while you were taking your shower, early in the day while you were getting ready for work...

and you find everything that was going on in your head stop...

the materials you have to read up on for the orientation, the baby you were taking care of yesterday, making a mental note to stop by the unit during lunch for a visit just to take a peek on her because she might have been discharged by the time you get back on Monday, what to wear cause you have to remember it's not scrubs for today, keep a mental picture of your road so you don't have to make the same driving mistakes you made yesterday, the things you have to do over the weekend and none of them is actually fun...

tons of things!

So anyway, if you find all of these stuff come to a halt and what comes to the fore is that you have somebody to have this exchange with in the middle of all these on such a time of day...

and after 15 years it's still the same somebody...

and this exchange still weighs so much it puts everything else in the background...

that it makes you want to stop and pray, 'Thank You.'

I don't know what to call that. I just know it warms my heart so beautifully on a colder-than-usual autumn morning.

And if you find yourself blogging about this 15 minutes before taking off for work...

Now that, I know what to call.

La vida loca!