My mum was beautiful,hardworking,smart,loving and kind,she was indeed a virtuous woman who built her home even when it got really hard.Mum taught us everything we know today,Mum made us who we are today and I'll forever be indebted to her.She was a Deaconess and she made sure our foundation was a strong one,Mum left no stone unturned in teaching us how to be brave,smart,loving,kind,decisive,respectful,strong,self-willed and everything beautiful and wonderful.Or was it when we fell ill as a child,Mum took us to the best clinic for proper treatment even though it'll cost more.She'll buy drugs,buy and prepare our favorite meala just to help when we don't want to eat due to loss of appetite,she'll keep watching over us just to make sure we don't need anything.I remember when we were very little,each time we go to Church on fridays for Vigil, she'll always buy mosquito coils,repellant and she will stay awake to drive away likely mosquitoes while we slept.She'll forever be my Idol and I'll keep loving her as long as I live because she was everything to me.
Dad was a Deacon until he because a Pastor,I didn't really see much of him because I was closer to Mum and he wasn't really there for us.He only attended PTA meetings,he was the one that buys books and stationeries and he was the one that always comes to pay our fees in school.If I wanted anything,it was always my Mum and it was Mum who was always there to discipline us when necessary.As sweet as she was,she was a no nonsense mother because she never spared the rod at any point.
Mum was employed even before she married,she was an artist,she worked as a civil servant but also did some petty after work jobs such as supplying packaged paper for drug stores where we live, people used to use a white paper designed to store drugs back then.She did everything possible to give us a comfortable life even though I didn't realize until several years later when I began to see my Dad and realized my Mum was the breadwinner of my family.
Dad never had a stable job,he refused to accept a government job and he insisted he wanted to be self employed even when he didn't have the capital.It was my Mum that kept applying for loan at work for him to be able to start a business and be able to contribute as the head of the house but he always end up wrecking the business leaving her to pay all the debt.Dad was interested in selling books,he actually had passion for selling books and stationeries and Mum took a loan as usual to help him get started He got the shop,got books and stationeries but he lacked proper business management skills that led to the abrupt end of the business leaving my Mum to sort the payment of the loan on her own as usual.Mum kept the truth away from us because she wanted us to be able to look up to him as the provider even though she was the one that always give him money to go pay our school fees,buy books and stationeries.Mum was the one feeding us from the little she was earning while I was busy enjoying myself thinking I was from a rich family because we never lacked anything.