Missing Home

Tonight I was browsing around my sister's account over at Friendster. She uploaded new pictures and I saw this picture.



These are my nephew's and niece in the Philippines. Three of them haven't meet me personally... just the two oldest boys. I left the Philippines December 2003 and I haven't been home since then...even for a vacation. I have been wanting to go home for a while now but since there's three of us now, financially speaking we just can't afford it. I should have went home when my sister went home last 2005. But the issue back then was the vacation days. I was just new in my job and I can't afford to be going on a vacation, not when I am new in the job.

And now that I have a daughter, I been really wanting to go home so she can meet her cousins in the Philippines. Right now she only know 2 of her cousins. All from my side. She haven't even meet her aunt and grandparents from the Philippines. My in-laws are all gone so the only grand parents she has are my parents.

Seeing the photos just made me realize that I am really missing a lot of my family back home. Hopefully 2011, we will be able to go home. I am hoping that by that time, I am done or at least close to being done with school.

I been checking some travel deals lately to see what we are looking for financially to get home. And let me tell you, with the economy I need to start saving. I've seen some great prizes and if we have enough to cover the expenses we might have a chance of going home. Sometimes though I wish that the Philippines is not that far so anytime we want to go home we can. And my daughter will have more time to get to know her cousins. Not like this where it takes years before we can go home.

It's nice if we can afford. We can go home every year or anytime we want to. Wow! That will be just lovely. But nope! We can't!

Oh well. I guess we just have to wait and see what comes next.

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