Family time

Family Time for me is very important specially nowadays that we’re too busy with our own schedules that we don’t have time to bond with each other, talk, play or just plain being together, a time where we would just chat and have fun. Family Time is also important because it is like your energy charger, your booster, mentally, spiritually & emotional. Some families that don’t have time together sometimes lead to broken homes and the worst, their kids straying from home.
For us one of the ways we do it is that every Sunday our Family would go to hear Mass. On the way to Church, my sister and I always insinuate that we wanted to eat at yellow cab after going to church. After Mass, we would always say something like “Papa gusto namin ng dilaw na baby bear/lion” or have a conversation like when my sister is wearing a yellow shirt she will ask what the color of her shirt is then ask what a baby bear or lion is called to our dad until he gets our point. Sometimes when he can’t take our pestering anymore, he will tell us to ask our mom to make us stop, but eventually they will agree to eat at yellow cab. We would drive to Imus where there is the nearest Yellow Cab. We would always order a Manhattan Meatlovers Pizza, Charlie Chan Chicken Pasta, Twice Baked Potato Halves and Hot Wings. After ordering our parents will go to our table. My Papa would always joke on whom will pay or whose allowance the bill will be deducted. Then my sister and I would point at each other. Then our order will come and we will all eat. Sometimes, I and my sister would scramble at the last piece of chicken. I was always the last one to finish. 
After eating we just sit there for a while, we just talk about what has happened the past days and other stuff. It’s like our little family Sunday bonding time where we forget about everything else and just think about each other. That’s why I love to insist that we eat outside after the mass. Now, that’s what I call Family Time.


[Draft] By: Janina Abadiano