Today is my birthday.

So, I just wanted to say thank you to all my followers and readers of my blog.

Thank you for taking time to read and sometimes comment on my posts.

Thank you for allowing me to share some of my life with you.

Thank you for the friendships and encouragements to take my dreams higher, I openned my bookshop after meeting great writers in blogville.

Thank you for sharing your lives with me through you blogs as well.

I know more about the world around me because of blogville and I rekindled my love of reading also.

May the good Lord bless you all and may we spend more times together both in blogville and physically(some day)by his grace.

Much Love

The Versatile Blogger Award

I got this award from Empi a couple of weeks ago and am so grateful to her, this means alot to me as it is my 1st award or is it nomination????



Here are the rules;
- Thank giver(done) and include a link to their blog also done.

- Select 15 blogs you follow regularly......The hard part but here goes;

1. Chi_ajad
2. Nenyenwa
3. Secretlilies
4. Simply MEE
5. Myne Whitman
7. Priscy
8. Dayor writes
9, Diary of a derespate Naija woman
10. Kiru Taye writes
11. NutritionAlert
12. Naijamum In London
13. Northern Girl
14. Natural Nigerian
15. Okeoghene
I did it .

- Tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself
Here goes;
1.I enjoy my own company.
2.I sell perfumes as well as books.
3.I love travelling, preferable with a friend.
4.I work in my profession just 2 days a week.
5. I love cooking and experimenting with new recipes
6. I also love the rain at night.
7.I have never been in labour, I had my children by CS.

That's all.

Believer in BETTER Naija?????

When I started this blog, I descibed myself as a Believer in a better Naija, but I am not so sure anymore.

My last post,condoling with those who lost their lives was impersonal at that time because I did not realize that Hadiza Otegbeye whose dad lived 2 houses away from mine for 10years was in the plane.
Neither did I know that my friends, Kayode Okikiolu and Eyo Bassey were also in the plane.
Yemi Okikiolu, Kayode's wife just posted new family photo on facebook a few days before she was made a widow and 3 children fatherless, Hadiza left a husband and 2 children.

What a Waste.
All because what some people cared about is Money.

Will this country ever get BETTER? Or am I just fooling myself? All of a sudden I am questioning my husband and I's decision to remain in this country.

My husband does a lot of local travel and my blood pressure was certainly up when he had to travel to Abuja the week after the crash.
My heart bleeds for this country, is it the killings and wathon destruction that goes on every week in the North or the senseless deaths on the road?

I am no longer a believer in a better NAIJA,but I am now praying for a better Naija.

Plane Crash

Just heard about the plane crash in Lagos.
So, sad as I heard there were no survivors.
May their souls rest in peace.

Amen

Hi All,

How have you all been, long time.
just wanted to check in and show face.

Why the cake? well, it is my birthday month and just wanted to start celebrating and thanking God early, he has been good to me. I am alive and well, and my family is well and business is picking up.


Here is to a wonderful week ahead, filled with beautiful things.

Please, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

My last 2 posts was typed on my iPad and the layout of my typing is all joined with no commas, gaps and paragraph

ME NO LIKEY.

Moving On

Hi,

Thank you for listening to my rantings and it is so funny how much better I am these days. My children are healthy and happy and older son just got admitted into High school and we've paid the fees and bought the uniforms, so, that is settled.

Today, 15years ago,I had my traditional marriage and I can remember the excitement just like yesterday, my mum just retired and had time on her hands and I was supposed to be serving NYSC (yes,I'm that old) in Umuahia but I absconded after camp because I was not redeployed back to Lagos. I did not even report to the place of pry assignment,all that was on my head was my wedding plans.

And planning I did, the months before the wedding was a bonding time between me and Mum, we never used to be close as she was so busy with her job as a banker, we shopped and made decisions together and my parents let me have everything I wanted as per the wedding. It was beautiful, both the traditional and Church ceremonies.
I thank God for beautiful memories and a beautiful life with Yemi as well.

As the song goes;
Count your Blessings
Name them one by one
Count your Blessings
See what God has done
Count your Blessings
Name them one by one
And it will surprise you
What the LORD has done.

So, I'm counting my blessings this morning and ask you to Thank the Lord with me for his goodness and mercies for the past 15years.

Have a lovely day




PS; for those of you wondering, my NYSC was extended by 6 months and 6 months allowance was also not paid but small price to pay compared to the time I got to know my mum.