After a few sucking Christmas’s the 2008 Christmas was indeed an outstanding one. My mum, sister and I travelled to the country side away from all the traffic, the hassle, the limited amenities and the otherwise over complicated lifestyle of the city and had a memorable and easy time with the extended family.
It had been a good six years since I was last there and I loved every minute of it. Children had grown up and many others had been born I had to do fresh introductions as some of them I couldn’t remember and vice versa. Young gals had become mothers and the young men I left had become fathers......and we thought life was fast in the city!!
Amazingly my 105 grandfather is still the provider of his homestead it was awesome to see him run his small business and balance his math at the end of the day……gosh I pray I to have such a sharp hubby :).
Simple things like sharing wonderful meals cooked from the firewood, making tea with milk straight from the cow’s teats, going to the local open air disco with a 30bob entrance fee, eating mangoes straight from the trees, peeing in the bush n others reminded me of what really matters.
While before we could have a small family lunch with my mother and siblings which ended up in total chaos!! This time we shared it with the larger community and learnt that it’s all about accepting each other as we are, respecting each other’s choices and decisions, sharing the little that is available and extending love.
By far its been one of the best I have had as a young woman, well I know I had other nicer ones when I was a small kid though the memories are fading away but in my 20’s this did it for me. Looking forward to more marvelous ones.
"It's not what you take when you live this world behind you, it's what you leave behind when you go....."
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