HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY, MUMMY

 NOVEMBER 2ND 2024.

This day was suppose to be my mum's 60th birthday. 

She had look forward to this day since when she was 55 years old, it fell on a Saturday just like my 30th and she had hoped to throw a big party to celebrate her birthday and her retirement.  2 years ago, she started telling everyone how she would celebrate her birthday with joy and how she would rest from going to work.

She even told me the birthday gift she was expecting from me was a husband or my own child because she want to resume her Grandma duties, we laughed about it and that was all. 

Death is funny.

It watched my mum prepare for her 60th and still took her before she can witness the day and that brings me to the question, "What are we even doing in this world when we would still die". This is also one of the part that pained me the most when she died. I mean, she could have waited an extra year, celebrate her birthday and died since we would still all die.

Apart from being a Nurse, my mum loved partying, doing house chores, food, dancing and her laughter was the best ever. Her only worry in her lifetime was how her children will get to the top. She doesn't care for clothes, shoes, jewelries or where her next meal is coming from but her children. She only had 3 of us  because that is the number she can personally take care of. And we all went to one of the best schools, if I do say so myself

I took a lot of personalities from her including not worrying about things that I can't control. I also wont be picking some of her personalities because we are not the same people.

On Saturday, I just stayed imagining how that day would have been if she was alive to celebrate her birthday. It would have been grand, I would have been one of the happiest child that day.

I am grateful I came through her, She did more than a mother hawk when protecting us, She provided all we need to the T, She took motherhood up there that I fear I may not be a 30% of the mother she was when I start having my kids.

Happy Birthday to my Superwoman.

I wish she had stayed longer to be celebrated but I know she's' forever watching us from up there.

Please, any chance you get to celebrate yourself, Please do. You may never know the last one.

Song for the day is Iya Ni Wura by Olayimika Babalola.

#hermothersdaughter.