Mother's Day Stories 3

Fiesty does not even come close describe Lola Coring. She was always walking fast, too fast at times, many stories can be told about her 'walking speed'. Mama was her world, until she had Papa as son-in-law. From then on, her heart beat in a pace much like getting signals from her son-in-law. Such that when he passed, the first she said out loud was, 'Kasatnu akun?' (What will become of me now?). We tried our best to keep Papa's promises unsaid, but of course we knew it fell short. She lived the rest of her life after Papa's death playing favorites with her grandchildren, cooked for us and her great-grandchildren when she received her meager monthly pension and taught us how to eat frogs.