“CAN’T STAY AWAY FROM YOU…………”

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.

Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior’s hand
Psalm 127: 3 & 4

Well, after two weeks break, I am ready to start blogging again. I recently moved and as you all know moving turns your life upside down and that includes your mental state of mind.

Imagine being without a refrigerator and stove for almost two weeks. It was hard and some days I felt like packing up my few things and heading back home. What happen really is that since we migrated, we have been renting furnished homes. This was so convenient as all we had to do was to walk in with our few personal effects and begin living, no hassle, no stress, except a higher rent of course. Unfortunately reality set in one day, as our son who is now two began ruining the people’s things and so made the decision now to rent unfurnished homes, so that the things he ruin would be ours.

This was daunting at first because all we owned at the moment was a chair and so we had to rely on one of our local furniture companies for the bare necessities we need to make living comfortable. You must have heard the saying that ‘poverty is a crime.’ Well because we could in no way purchase all these things cash at the moment, we had to seek credit and that was when we began feeling that we had committed a crime for being poor. The furniture company wanted every document we possessed and had us going back to them for couple days in a row with additional documents they needed and so we ended up waiting a whole week and a half for our, oops, their stuff. The only good thing is that the apartment is so so cozy, the owner thought about every possible detail just to make his tenants comfortable.

Our son was the real trooper in all of this as he had to make do with room temperature beverages and take out, as he could not receive his home cook meals of mash potatoes and macaroni and cheese which he loves dearly. Some days, I actually felt like crying because of what we had him subjected to, but he is our tough little guy and this just goes to show that children are actually more resilient than we give them credit for. Did I mention we had no television either and so he made himself comfortable with dvds of his favorite cartoons which he watched over and over again on our laptop.

Well, we are cooking now and having cold beverages, which is such a delight (can you imagine, another saying goes, cow never know the use of his tail until he loses it). I would have given anything for a cool drink of water those couple of days, something we usually take for granted because it is always available, except as those of us in Tropical Regions know, when those hurricanes strike and take with it our electricity.

Thanks very much for bearing with me for the last two posts, as I fill you in on our recent moving experience. I will be back to the blogging business at hand in my next post, so catch up with you then.