One of the bonding moments

Family bonding really matters to me. It's a time of joy and laughter, to have a better relationship.  Since I got married, as well as my brothers and sister, we set and schedule our Family bonding in our parent's house which was our house before when we were still single.

Our family bonding is done twice or thrice a month or it depends on the availability of my siblings.  Most of the time we have our get together during dinner.  Sometimes, each of us bring food or we chipped in and raise a certain amount to buy ingredients for my mother's dish that we certainly love.  We choose that because most of us love that, then we wait till she's done.

Before we take our dinner, there is always a mini conference, telling stories and updates about our lives while our kids keep on playing.

The gathering always starts after lunch.  Good that our houses are just a walk away from our parents house.  Its easier to have a family bonding but of course there are times that some of us missed that family bonding.

Another bonding moment but outdoor.

In that simple bonding moment, we make our parents happy and they love it very much.

Incidentally, there were some unforeseen things that happened to us before Valentine's Day.  There was a little misunderstanding happened between me and my youngest sister that keep us cold with each other.  No communication at all even text messages.  These are some of the unavoidable circumstances that siblings always don't agree with each other.

Valentine's day came, but all of my siblings have their different dates with their respective family.  So we decided to have our family bonding the day after Valentine's Day.  February 15, 2013 that was the time that we held our family bonding and we all went to our parents house.

This time, it's a little bit unusual and uneasy between me and my sister. We asked again our mother to cook Pork Caldereta and Gatang Tilapia.  My Family loves those food especially if my mother cooks it.

The time of conversation comes and our mini conference started in our sala, but still my sister and I did not talked that much.  We continued chatting with our brother, pretending that there's nothing wrong with both of us and pretend as well as if one of us is a not there.  My mother knew it before we came that day, I open up it already to her.

Our situation goes on until our Mother finished cooking.  Then dinner is served.  We kept ourselves busy assisting our kids with their foods, we make sure that we don't have time to mingle even in just a single moment.   That's really hard, but I don't want to spoiled our family bonding because our kids enjoys it very much.

We ended the day and the bonding moment but still, we weren't able to patch things up between us.   I am thinking now, what will I do so that our misunderstanding ends, a little talk to her, but she don't want to talk to me. At the back of my mind, I am the eldest, she should be the one to think of the ways to talk to me. I've waited but still no text, no call or even personal message on FB...nothing..

I miss talking a lot with my sister, she's my best friend, she shares also her problem and the best of all she seek advices from me, I miss those things. It's almost 2 weeks that we haven't talk. I need to do things that will bring back our closeness again.


Since food is our bonding moment, I decided to call a family bonding this coming March 2, 2013, guess what? The date is set by me, but I will surprise them by texting them about our Family bonding.  And of course, this time i will directly text or maybe call my sister to inform her about our Family bonding.  Perhaps that's the first move.

This time I will not ask my parents to cook food.  I am glad that Max's have their delivery services. Since most of our kids loves chicken, I will definitely order the 4 Real Delivery Meals, since we are 16 in the family, I will order 4 sets of 4 Real delivery Meals.


Since there are variety of side dishes on the 4 Real Delivery Meals, so we can choose whatever my family wants, isn't nice? Well, it is, because kids will enjoy the sarap to the bones of Max's Chicken plus the long time favorite the caramel bar of Max's Corner Bakery.  By the way, if this is possible to order also and to deliver one box of caramel bar, I will give it to my sister, so that the simple smile on her face will reflect, that's the 2nd move.


And this is the set up, I will tell all my sibling except my sister that they need to go in our old house at around 4pm, then next is dinner. So, I will schedule my sister around 2pm, so that we have an ample time to talk in front of my mother, because we are very close with my mother, I want her to listen on us and give her opinion. Isn't it a perfect time??? and that's the 3rd and final move.

Well, hoping for the best, I guess so, but I am pretty sure that we end up with a smile in our faces and will bring back our closeness and for sure a full loaded tummy of ours.

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