My father-in-law passed away in Dec. 19 -- a few days before Christmas 2011 Margie, Luz, Daniel and Helen with their mother whom we fondly call "Inang" It was Christmas 2011-- but there was no gift-giving, no ham on the table, no games for the kids, no Christmas carols, and people's faces were mostly painted with sadness. Christmas 2011 was not a "merry" one for my family, but it was a very meaningful Christmas that made me realize a lot of things that are important in life. My father-in-law whom we fondly call "Tatang" passed away in Dec 19, a few days after he was diagnosed with leukemia. Tatang in the hospital while struggling with leukemia Seeing how hard it was for my mother-in-law and her daughters and sons, including my husband, to accept that Tatang has already left the family, I couldn't help but cry, too. Amid the merry-making in other places, here's a family grieving for having lost Tatang. I knew it wouldn