Children always have the best Christmas memories. When I was a kid, we constantly look forward to Christmas 🎄 breaks because it was going to be fun all the way. I have said before that we travel down to my maternal home to stay with our cousins
Over time I have wondered why marginal homes are sweeter and their siblings are always open-hearted more than the father's side. I can't remember spending Christmas 🎁 with my father's siblings and their children. Maybe because they feel you are sharing something so dear with them...oooh, I don't know ooo. My father died so early and that gave me the liberty for us to be more close to my mother's people since they seem to care more about our well-being.
So there are lots of remarkable Christmas events we hard together. I will just share two of them with you...don't laugh so much oooo, am watching you
My mother has 4 siblings in all including her that's 5 of them and she happens to be the 3 and the second daughter. So her immediate elder brother who is the first son has 6 children. So when we return home the house is always filled and we cook together. So when the food is done especially on Christmas day it will be dished inside this big tray and all of us will assemble around it with our spoons. Hmmmmm, you know this kind is purely survival of the fittest. We will just be eating in peace with one mind oooo, then when the food is about to finish one of my cousins, this boy was the most dreaded, will just pour saliva into the food, as no one will be bold to continue, he will just sit in peace and finish the whole food then we will go hungry. This boy continued with this kind of attitude till one day his cup got filled with me.
We went strolling as the custom always is for us to go and visit some uncles and aunties to wish them merry Christmas and for them to wish us back with some gift. We went to a particular community and those my cousins set up a fight between me and my stubborn cousin. I don't like fighting but I have the mouth 👅 and my mother did not train us to be fighters, but without choice, we started fighting mind you are way older than him but you know that they said men are always men.
Shortly I lifted this boy and settled him on the ground, thankfully there were grasses and sand there, and I began to feed him with those good ground dishes. All my elder cousins were so surprised and they started shouting that I should live him alone. Since then till he changed he never tried looking for trouble close to me because the siblings are there to remind him of what happened in the past.
The second memory happened when we went out strolling again. We went to the masquerade festival 🎄 in a near community, due to the crowd being so much my elder brother missed inside the crowd, so we searched for him. That was not a funny experience at all. When we got home 🏡 my uncle dealt with my eldest cousin. The next day my brother came home opening his eyes 👁️. He was asked what happened and where he slept, but he couldn't explain himself so much. That particular incident brought to a close our journey to that particular community. We just visit those around and that's all. And then things were much better, now that bad people are looking for who to use for their bad events.
Hope you didn't laugh so much, don't forget am watching ⌚ you.
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This is my entry for the hive learners contest edition 3 of week 41.