Mrs. MOM

After all that cribbing and cursing, I'm finally back home.. Yippieee!! Meeting ones' folks after a really really long separation is a moment filled with all possible human emotions. There's happiness, anger, crying, and worrying... but mostly there's crying..

Meet my mother. MOMMY.

As soon as I got off the train..

"Oh look" to my father.. "There she is..!!"

While I'm just about to get off, my mother hugs and kisses me. and I am still standing at the gate of the coach, the one and only way to get off the coach.. Obviously there were a few grumbles and mumbles from the passengers waiting impatiently behind me. We let them pass with no hard feelings..

Me and mom started walking towards the car with my father carrying my luggage and walking ahead of us.. as usual..

"Look how thin you've become.. " My Mom said pinching my arm to feel some flesh around my bones.

"Whats with your hair??"

"Is that a tatoo?!"

"I see that you didn't bring your boyfriend along.. what?? you don't have one??.." she seemed relieved. And then she said in an almost a whisper "thankgod.."

"Let's go home.. and I am going to make you so fat and chubby that you won't be able to get inside the coach on your way back!" She said this with a warmth that I had missed all these months.. I didn't mind the getting FAT and CHUBBY thing.. I just smiled and squeezed her arm..

I'm glad that I'm home... :)