… happened while I was chatting with Aggie yesterday.

Aggie and I were catching up, we haven’t chatted in ages.

Martha came up to the videocam, was making silly pa-cute faces

Matthew came up too, nakikichismis

We were having fun with the tagalog ym audibles

Then Aggie told them to watch dvd na

I can see the kids in the background, jumping and dancing, on the makeshift trampoline — The Bed.

Then all of a sudden then disappeared from the screen

Martha bit Matthew, and he started crying

I saw Aggie reprimanding Martha, iiyak na – Mommy hugs

Then Aggie got up took a band-aid to put on Matthew’s sugat, kasi natuklap yung balat

Then Mom told me, pati yung nangagat nagpaband-aid rin. Natawa ko dun.

And that was it, our catching up. Kasi di na kami nakapagchat later.

That wasn’t even five minutes.

Ang buhay nga naman ng Ina.