#AnotherTrueStory Being the festive season, I will try share stories with you as often as possible. So today we lit a Christmas tree at our office and it reminded of Christmas when I was child. Of course I was a member of the Sunday School choir, I remember being a soloist a number of times, then I was in the #drama club of course, St.Crispinus Anglican Church in Bungoma was just the bomb but that is a story for another day. My mum, (God Bless Her) made our Christmas the #bombest. For avoidance of doubt,we also had Christmas trees and ours were real trees, wachana na hii vitu mnanunua Nakumatt. So my bros would cut a healthy branch of one of our Cyprus trees and place it in an old bucket supported by stones. We would place this tree in the corner of our sitting room. Then behold the time for decorating came, we had a cotton tree behind our kitchen (I wonder where it went), so we would pluck the cotton and decorate with. Mum would buy like 10 balloons. Then she had those shiny things they put on your neck on graduation and make you so uncomfortable, she kept them for like a decade and would unleash them on 20th of every year. And there we had our Christmas tree, no it didnt have the blinking lights (Stima ilikuwa bado in our valid dreams) but the tree remained beautiful even as it nyaukad towards new years. Then she would always buy us beautiful mtumba dresses and sandak. Then we had braids my aunty had used and given us, so we recycled them for three years Christmass and mum would just add on one. The lady who would plait us would do a horrible Job but who cared, bora umeshuka and never mind we had to shave clean in Jan in preparation for School. For some reason, battery for our radio was always there during this season for us to listen to Christmas carols, not like the other period where she would hide the batteries from my teenage bros founders of reggae, akisema atasikizia matangazo ya vifo. The food, Ohhh My My! !! My mum would cook only nice things and the usual Ugali na Sukuma was shelved. Tulipikiwa Mchele na waru na cabbage, chapati na ndengu, nyama, and treetop and biscuits at times. #CHRISTMASWASTHEBOMB !!!!!! LongLive Mum
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:31:04 +0000
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