I feel blessed to have all my kids to myself this week juu they are on halfterm.
Well, save for one from the meanest babymomma!
But issokay…
The youngest boy has some ringworm on his head and it’s little things like this that makes me appreciate the hard work their mums do juu they all packed some medicines in all their bags with instructions and as they all settled in, I felt like a doctor of some sorts and it really made me appreciate the hard work they put into raising my kids!
The baby-mommas would also keep texting me to remind me of what to give who at what time!
And it reminded me of a situation I was in many years ago in the eighties!
Any parent knows that kids hate eating healthy food and drinking enough water so they end up constipated!
Today there is all sorts of solutions to the problem but for some reason, in the eighties, there was only one solution to the problem of constipation in children! (Dr. Luther Saidia)
A big brown tablet that your mum would insert into your anus!
And so it was that on this fateful morning,my mum had forgotten to do the deed in the privacy of the house before I left to wait for the school bus at my local bus stop!
I knew it but I wasn’t going to say anything because it wasn’t a pleasant experience whether in the house or anywhere!
And so I’m standing at the bus stop counting my blessings for my mum forgetting to insert the dreaded pill into my bum at home yet eagerly waiting for the bus to arrive and take me away before my mum remembers and comes chasing after me!
As fate would have it, my mom remembered that she had forgotten to administer the embarrassing dignity violating brown tablet and in the midst of me sighting the approach of the school bus, I can see my mum rushing towards me and approaching me with her hand held up…
My mum and the school bus get to where I was standing precisely at the same time and as the last kid before me boarded the bus,my mum bends me over, pulls my shorts down, squeezes the big brown tablet up my bum, pulls my shorts up, thanks the driver for waiting and pats me on my back with a sense of Accomplishment on her face.
I board the bus minus my dignity and all street cred as all my friends and foes laugh at me!..
It was embarrassing then but I look back now and I have nothing but love and respect for my mum!
And to all the baby-mommas out there…
I have nothing but love and respect for you ma sistas!