Grey Matters

This will be the last time this blog will be open to the public. It was an uneasy décision but I believe the best thing is to make this blog private. I struggled with the increasingly nagging suspicion that I had evolved beyond the woman who began this; and now I am forced to see it's true. My initial idea was to shut it down completely but I realise I still need it to see where I have comé from. My new self, I am pouring somewhere else, that location is not hidden, but so that I am not seen in the light of this one, I will not reveal it. Thank you to all who stopped by and read what some random girl had to say. Chili --

My daughter turns 2 in a few days and I thought I should do something nice for her to remember, especially as she has been seriously ill with an infection and needs à bit of cheering up. So I went to the babystore I patronise regularly to see if there was anything she would like. (How I would pay for it was à different story altogether, but I wasn't thinking about that just yet.) To cut a long story short, the lady owner told me she just got some toys and brought à large carton over to me. I picked out à toy kitchen set, complète with plastic pots, spoons, whisk, griddles and à stove! I knew my daughter would love that, and it would save us the headache of her banging our pots and pans. I also picked out an alphabet building block set that fit together like legos. I then asked her the cost and to my surprise they came to just over 2000 naira! I was overjoyed because I felt even if I didnt have any money that amount would not be hard to raise. I begged ...