Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day?

I want to begin this post by greeting my mother, Maria Bernardita R. De Leon, a happy mother’s day! 🙂 Thank you for being such a generous, loving, and supportive mother.

And now to the other business of this post. Ever since it came to my senses that there is such a celebration dedicated to honoring all mothers every second Sunday of May, I had this odd but [I think] a relevant dilemma. Whenever I want to greet my mother or others’ mothers, I did not know where to put the apostrophe in this Happy Mothers’ or Mother’s Day thing.

I always thought that it was Mothers’, i.e., putting the apostrophe after the plural noun “mothers” making it a plural possessive. I meant that this day is for all mothers and not solely for my mother. But it turned out after reading another blog post that Anna Jarvis, the (culprit) founder of this worldwide commercial event in 1908, wrote in an article during her lifetime that it was supposed to be Mother’s Day, i.e., putting the apostrophe after the letter “r” and before the letter “s.” She wanted it that way so that all people will individually honor their mothers and not as a worldwide event.

Therefore, each family ought to honor their mother in this celebration of Mother’s Day. Also, I think that it is not a matter of where the apostrophe is located in the word mothers. I think we all have to be grateful to all mothers who have nursed us during our infancy, molded us during our formative years, cooked for us every night at dinner, gave us advices when we desperately needed them, prayed incessantly to God and to their model, Mama Mary, in order to keep their families safe, etc.

Still, because of Anna Jarvis, the imperialists made this a commercial and secularized event. But that’s another story.

Until my next post. Happy Mother’s Day to my mother and Happy Mothers’ Day to your mom and to all moms in the world. 🙂

Usog

Naniniwala ka ba sa usog? Grabe yung nangyari kay Papa. Waaah! Di ako makapaniwala. Nilawayan lang siya ng nakausog sa kanya, nawala na lahat ng sama ng pakiramdam niya! Himala.

Pamahiin pa ba yun o may scientific basis yung usog? Ireresearch ko nga.

New Acquisition

Just bought a new phone compliments of my mother. It’s a brand new O+ 8.9 Android phone with air shuffle technology. There have been many models of O+ phones advertised in Eat Bulaga. I picked this one while James, my brother, picked the newest 8.15 Android phone. It’s just that we have to suffer waiting in long lines because of its grand opening sale held in SM North Edsa’s The Annex.

Just look how much people were impressed by the huge discounts offered by O+ in some of their selected phones. On the one hand, my 8.9 phone had a retail price of 8995 Php and as part of their grand opening sale, it was slashed off to as much as 2000 Php. Just imagine the savings! On the other hand, my brother’s phone was originally 12,995 Php and was discounted by as much as 3000 Php. So we bought them for a grand total of 17,000 Php. The only problem we had was that they were not prepared for credit card shopping yet. That is why we paid in cash. VOILA! My brother and I have new phone units.

THANK YOU MAMA! HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY! 🙂 I LOVE YOU!