It took more than 30 years for this to happen 

It is now official to God

The Sunday started with rain and my sleep was getting sweeter, that's when I realize that it was all a trap and I should get ready for church, though it happened to me last two Sundays and I ran late for church because it was raining, but the truth is that when you are determined, nothing can stop your movement, not even rain, I went to church and I wasn't that early though but at least the service just started, but this is not my article of the day though. 

What is about to write might be common to some alien to others, but I'm going to write it because it's indeed good news to me and my family and if I'm not writing about everything, I'm sure I would have released two albums of it that contain about 15 songs each, haha. 

My mom and Dad met in our hometown province when my dad traveled for the holiday and he was about to leave for the city as soon as possible, his aunty back then was telling him to stay a little more before going back to the city, he stayed a little more and that's when he met my mom, my mom was the friend of his sister, that made things a bit simple for him to talk to her, anytime he tells us the story, I and my siblings will want to laugh but we will just hold it inside of us, not because of how he usually says it though, but what he said after, he will now say that what if he had left to the city without staying a bit longer, that's when the laughter were holding inside burst out, haha, then we won’t have been born then.  

Everything went as it went and mom moved with him to the city, they stayed together and that’s when the first child came, the second one and the rest of us, without dad paying his pride price, which means that were born outside wedlock, still we didn’t make that to bother us when other kids were showing pictures of their parents wedding, we will just be smiling and won’t say a word about ours cause there’s nothing to say though. 

Years and past and dad don’t even think about putting money in her head (to pay her pride price) but still she didn’t leave us, though sometimes things get out of hand and went not good way, but we still bounce back up as a family, years goes by and the two elder children’s were working to support the family with what they have, they were the two that really saw life from another level because things were worst back then, but thank God we made it out of that phase of our lives, I remember when we were staying in one room for more than “I don’t know when” cause I was born in that one room and some of my elder siblings too, so literally if I were to calculate the time we left there or use my elder siblings age to calculate it, it wound been more than 20 years we stayed in one room, about 6 children and both parent, before the eldest siblings travel to stay with one of the relatives in outside the state, while the second born too went to stay with another relative but it was in the same city. 

Things started getting better and we left the one room to a two, which one will be room and the one will be the seating room, by the support of both elder siblings, we stayed there for some years though it wasn’t up to 6 years, before we move into a 3 bedroom flat apartment which I and my  immediate elder brother was sharing the same room before he went to get a place of his own, now the room belongs to me alone, it’s can only be God for real, like sometimes when I look back I just smile and thank God for his goodness in our lives today, it could have get worst than that but instead, it was getting better and better for us, I know that God isn’t done with us yet, he’s still doing more for us.

The story is long though, but I’m just going to cut it here now, the full details will be on my music album that I haven’t started working on yet, the good news is that. On Friday both parents and my sisters traveled to my mom's village so they can do the rightful thing by putting money on my mother's head (paying my mom's bride price) it’s indeed a thing of joy but it never came easy for us, my siblings made it possible by the help of God for it to be done, I was supposed to go but due to my some reasons that involve money and seeing some family people that don't even know that I exist, I didn't go. 

It took over 30 years for this day to come when my mom and dad has officially become husband and wife, it wasn’t easy for my mom at all, imagine waiting for 30 years plus, Not every super hero wear cape, so many of them are mothers and my mom is part of them, my pastor usually say it’s not right for any woman to be  livings with a man on credit, which is the truth and it usually touch my mom, well right now, she’s officially married and she’s no longer funnykaty with my dad, haha.  

Happy Mother’s Day ma, you are indeed a living legend that I will always keep admiring. 

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08-05-2022