Mum told me stories about how she spent three days in the labor room during my birth and by the exact moment I was out, her smile came full forgetting all the initial pains she went through, and now am the only girl among five children. haha
I was Dad’s favorite, or supposedly he was my favorite between Mom and Dad then I remembered always waking up in the middle of the night to drink water and make use of the bathroom before going back to bed and Daddy helped out. At a point, He could detect my waking hour and before I got up from bed, he was already in my room with a cup of water, thereafter taking me over to the bathroom and leaving when am already settled back asleep.
Among my peers, I was considerably one of the jovial ones in school and church. Talking about the church, I’d had a crew of five with the stage name “Jesus Babies”.
Everyone in church knew and recognized that brand name. Thinking about it am sure those who knew me then would be shocked to know that the once shy free girl is now afraid of cameras😄 We would sing and dance when called to the stage while in school, I was nothing less since I still got another crew there too. lol
I was never the shy kid, no no, not Tory!
Little Tory was a daring sweet girl, having a dad who dotes on her, a mom..oh well, that woman beat me that time sha..lol and my calm elder brother who am ever ready to defend even as kids since he was too calm to speak out when being oppressed sometimes.
For seven years, it was just us. A family of four, and then three others joined in along the line, my parents quite spaced us though. From the moment my immediate younger brother was born, the mom in my seven-year-old mind kicked in and was the beginning of my growing up.
There was no more daddy's little girl, haha.. he was barely home, and I guess that contributed to the drift between us and mom's beating continued..lol
In any way, life was still beautiful, having my siblings around made it worth it, especially the period when we would play the common “wrestling” among ourselves (with dad and mom absent) and then go in turns singing all the songs from the lion king’s cartoon. This was mostly my elder brother and I to our younger siblings. The connection was there.
Remembering all these now, I realize my mom being easy with my younger ones on things she would have canned me for and when I asked her these in the form of a question some time ago, her response was “She trained me to train them”.
Oh well, I usually discipline them too especially my parent's last child.
My childhood was filled with blissful memories and I believe it's the more reason why am hurt knowing my younger siblings aren't enjoying a quarter of the life my elder brother and I had.
Life happens and things change, luckily. I enjoyed childhood even though circumstances indirectly made me take up responsibilities from my teenage, I'm glad I didn't miss out on the fun of being a child and if there's one thing that I know stocked to my memory to date, is that moment where my elder brother and I sit with just one our siblings, (the one who was born at the time)while taking turns in singing songs from my favorite cartoon till date “The Lion King”.
PHOTO CREDITS ARE MINE.
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