Vox Hunt: My Mom

nobody@vox.com(Scooter Kitty) — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:53:01 -0700

Show us your mother.

Happy Mom's Day to all the moms out there!

Honestly, they should have just combine the QoTD & The VoxHunt because they belong together!

Anyway, here is a picture of my mom on her wedding day in the Philippines. Cavite to be exact. My mom is one of the hardest working moms out there. I'm sure everyone says that about their mothers but she really did work hard. She had 4 kids and held down a full-time job plus multiple sales jobs in the evening. My dad was usually out to sea because he was in the Navy & worked on the carriers so she had 4 little kids running around while she tried to keep it all together.

She used to pick us up after school and take us with her on her sales jobs because she could not afford a babysitter. This was when we were in pre-school and up to 4th grade. I am sure people out there may be shocked but seriously, what the hell else was she supposed to do? She just immigrated her and none of her family lived here so she was pretty much alone with 4 kids.

My mom would pull a bit of a scared-straight line with us. It worked. We're all still here. Anyway, she would scare the crap out of us so that we would behave while she went to these houses to do her sales pitch. One of her stories was that if the police saw us, we were supposed to duck out of sight or else they would take us away. Hello, how freaky is that story to a couple of elementary school kids?!? We had a Red Ford Pinto Stationwagon that she added curtains to so that we were semi-concealed. Some one was always the lookout and the second that person spotted a "cop" we would scurry into hiding position, which was basically lying down in the back with blankets and pillows over us until the lights disappeared. I don't even know if those were really cop cars, I think, we just panicked any time headlights came around the corner.

So, there you have it, a nice mom's day story for you.

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What did he sound like?

nobody@vox.com(Scooter Kitty) — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:46:10 -0800

Cutest couple

I went to buy some pants at the mall today because, though I have been trying to stay at my fighting weight, it is near impossible..so bigger pants are needed. I am not ashamed. Such is life. But then as I was walking around, I walked past an older Filipino couple...and the husband was talking to his wife in Tagalog and I just started tearing. Valentine's Day is my pop's birthday - he would have been 65 years old.

I had a hard time this year. I just felt lost and I lacked energy. Some years, months, weeks, days are better than others. Some times people or things just trigger memories.

I wonder how my mom is. My mom was a workaholic and used to work late into the night. My dad would just stay up waiting for her, dinner would be on the table and he would usually be up watching television until she got home. They would spend the next couple of hours, talking into the early morning hours.

I forgot what he sounds like...

I used to have his old cell phone. He left the voice mail message on it. I did not even know until one of my friends called and left a message and said, "Anna, you're dad is the voice message." For awhile, I used to call it just so I could hear him.

(I am at work and I started tearing. my poor supervisor walked up to have me sign the sign in sheet...sorry dude!)

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