Swei gave me a calendar end of last year. It was a beautiful one with pretty drawings and meaningful quotes on each page for each day. The calendar is called "A Brand New Day". Some of the quotes had kept me going on when I felt really down. I did not flip through all the pages to see all the quotes because I want to see a new quote everyday.

There were 2 instances when this calendar did kind of shocked me by its presence. The first time was when my neutrophil count was really low and was hoping for it to go up and it went up just in time for chemo. I felt like it was a small miracle and when I came back from chemo that day, I flipped the calendar and the quote was, " Every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." Exactly what I felt at that time!

This morning, I was lying in bed refusing to wake up just yet. My mom was already up at 5.30AM. She prayed and then started to cut fruits to make fruit juice for me at 6+AM and she slept later than me the night before. Then, it just crossed my mind that a mother's love is so great, so priceless, so unparalleled, so unbelievable. Sometimes I feel that I cannot comprehend what a mom can do for their children.

I woke up, flipped the calendar for the page of the day and saw, "Sometimes, the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." -Barbara Kingsolver-

Love your mom, love your dad, love your family, love your friends.