Mommy
"Mommy Ther, Mommy Ther, tingnan mo ang grade ko.", and my three year-old pamangkin proudly showed me her test result. All of my pamangkins call me Mommy Ther. I guess it was a tradition that we got from my mom's family because we call her other two sisters, Mama and Nanay. I have three nieces and a nephew from my brother and my two sisters. Toni is the oldest and the first apo in my family, then there's C-vic (an abbreviation for Charles Victor). Next in the line is my niece Marian from my youngest sister and then there's Angelica Louise from my twin sister. Toni will be four years old this coming November 19. C-vic is two and a half years old, Marian is two and Louise is barely 7 months old. I was not very fond of children before. I found them too noisy and too annoying. While other people were going crazy over a child, I used to just look in total indifference. I just don't see what the fuss was all about. And then, Toni came along. She was the first apo in