24/02/2025
25years already gone since we lost my Mum.
24th February 2000 was the darkest day of our lives. I remembered vividly my mum was down with cancer of the liver, my eldest sister was just 12years, my immediate elder sister was just 9 years and I just turned 8 years on the 16th, my younger brother was just 5 years and our last baby was just 6 months.
I remembered always running to her room and I will always tell her "mummy you will be healed in Jesus name" and I will rush out.
On that faithful day, we were at home, and they told us we will be going to Dr Anene's house (our family friend) his children were our mates then, personally I was happy because such decision doesn't come often, but my eldest sister said she won't be going if our baby sister isn't going with us. So they decided to give her the 6 months old baby. We didn't know my mum had passed on. They were just waiting for a perfect time to tell us. We stayed there till late in the night and we were no more that comfortable.
When they brought us back home, just at the entrance to our house I saw my dad, he didn't want us to be taken in to her room and immediately I saw tears for the first time run down his cheeks (my super hero dad) but the people encouraged him. We went in, there were many people in our house I greeted those in the sitting room, but no response from them just a pity look on their faces, immediately we entered my mum's room and I saw her and her nostrils were already blocked, we let out a very hard cry, they wouldn't even let us touch her and we were taken out. I remembered them begging us to stop crying and eat food. Who will eat food when they lost their precious mum.
This was how living without our mum started. Dad became both mum and dad.
Before my mum's death she told my dad to remarry if anything happens to her and she told my eldest sister same thing and instructed her that we should treat our step mum same way we would have treated her. But my loving dad answered her that when it's right time for him to remarry that he will. So he stayed for 15yrs without a wife and later we insisted he must remarry as he had sacrificed his 15yrs just to raise us and he did. He took this long because of the love he has for my mum and to make sure no one came in between him and his children. My mum prayed for him that he will never lack what to use and train us and God honored that prayer and we never lacked anything.
Now it's 25years and when I look back from where we started and where we are now. I can only but appreciate Almighty God who has been ever present in our lives.
