So we had a couple (three, actually) of aunts who came over Friday morning and stayed over for the night. It was a very special occasion; my mother even used one of her sick leaves at work to entertain her cousins and her sister. Ever since we moved to Laguna in 2002 we were sort of uprooted from all our family. It was a big blow to my mother, who lived the whole of her life here in Bagbaguin, surrounded by her aunts, sisters and uncles. Unfortunately moving to Laguna was a necessary evil because even though it is technically…