Family night was good. We watched two movies –“She’s The Man” and “Fantastic 4” enjoying some home made popcorn and non-alcoholic fruit drinks in tow. Yours truly slept off midway into the second movie. Heard this morning that Papa and Sampi were no less guilty.
Hurried out of the house at 10am today because as you guessed, yes, the realtor had called yesterday that someone wanted to view our home. Papa in his childlike innocence had wondered that with house staging and showings, what if some items such as small pieces of art or a family heirloom got nicked? Thinking seriously. What if? How do you bring up the discussion without ruffling feathers, embarrassing people and perhaps only finding out many days after the fact with the real culprit long gone? Well let’s just say we expect none of that to happen. We have our fingers crossed.
So we scurried out of our home and headed to IKEA for another family occasional ritual – IKEA breakfast and some quick look at home furnishings within the store. Anything to get a good bang for a buck especially in these times.
Danju's buddy, Sebastian and Papa's pal, Jack came by after 'shooting some hoops' at the St Andrew Catholic School yard and the four young men disappeared into the games room for rounds of Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 duels leaving me with the 'girls' for a couple of hours.
Our next major activity this night was dropping off Siya at the airport for her long haul flight home to Nigeria for the funeral of her father. I'd stay back here with kids for now and leave just a day or two to the funeral to do what is expected of me as the husband of the first daughter. Those of you who are Nigerians know what that means.
We just got home and it's time to pray and go to bed.
At times, living seems like a rat race.
Take care now and let's talk again some time.
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