My mom and my sister - LOH 179# CONTEST

Happy Easter to you all.
The journey of life is full of give and take, many things happen which are beyond our control but in all we are still alive which is why things and life keep getting more and more interesting.
After long time of silence on my blog I am happy to be back and ready to share my experiences during the break. But before I do that, I saw the ladies of hive weekly contest and this caught my attention. I will be participating in this week contest by responding to the two prompts.

1. Share any memorable mother-daughter relationship with us, whether good or bad, yours or another's own you witnessed.

My mom and I

Sharing contents about my mom is something that gladdens me because I am glad God gave me a mother that is so understanding and caring. My mom was a teacher in a primary school that loves teaching the lower classes because she loves singing children rhymes. She is a very soft person and hard working.
I stayed with my grandparents and there I learnt most of what I know today. After their demise I had to start living with my mom. I remembered that while I was growing people do call me a spoilt child because I was lazy and really do not know how to talk but I understood less then. When I lost my grandparents then I understood better. Staying with my mom brought back my laziness, because she does everything. She doesn't allow any of us to assist her with chores. She wakes before everyone in the house and by the time we wake up, there will be nothing left for us to do.
I remembered then my job was to sit and watch Korean season movies. I watch movies to the extent that I don't sleep at night. My mom will leave me for work in the morning and still meet me watching movies when she closes at work. If the movie is emotional I will cry and cry as if I'm the one experiencing something bad. My mom will still come back from work to cook for me and watch the plates. She is happy doing it while it never occurred to her that she is not training me. Her motherly care was too much and it was affecting me. If I want to help her she will complain that I can't do it to her taste so I should just watch. When I got admission into the university and left for school. I missed her a lot because no one was there to do my chores so I had to take responsibility of taking care of myself. When I got back I was a changed person, even when I know she will complain I will help her with her chores and people started making good comments about me. She was left with no choice than to allow me assist her. Most times we do the chores together cracking jokes, sharing stories and laughing like friends.

2.Tell us about one thing you learned from your mother or sister or a female neighbour that she didn't teach you directly.

My immediate elder sister

While growing I was a tough person, I fight alot and hate seniority. I believe everyone is equal. My immediate elder sister was the opposite of me. Despite beating and disrespecting her she never cease to love me. She was my mother in secondary school. After her graduation from secondary school she started working and buying most of the things I needed in school. Later on she got admission into college of education. The following year she wanted to retake JAMB so that she can enter university directly, that same year I too needed to take JAMB. It was a tough time for my mom because we were financially limited.
She sacrifice her JAMB money for me to get my JAMB form and that was how my sister couldn't go to the university because of me. I learnt from her that the greatest healing is in forgiveness and the greatest ingredient of love is sacrifice. I missed her so much and her death left a deep hole within me because I never had the opportunity to pay her back.
Thanks for reading my post.