Do Mothers Ever Rest?

From the day you put to bed, you never really sleep or rest  because
1. You want to make sure the baby is well fed, when asleep you want to make sure everything is perfect when they wake up.
2. You want your home to be clean enough so they don't get sick.
3. You remember daddy, he needs attention too, so you cook and make sure he is happy.
4. You remember friends, family and colleagues, you don't want them to think you are ignoring them just because you started a family, so you try to stay in touch.
5. You remember you have not had time to take care of yourself, you start to read how to look good while being a mother and a wife. You realise you need to lose a ton of weight.
6. You think about how you need to get a job to add to the household income so you either apply for a job, go back to school or try to get a promotion.
7. When everything seems stable you start to worry about what school you want your child to go and you need to prepare a year earlier.
8. You actually worry about everything.
9. You wonder how what you are doing right now affects your family's future, you wonder if you will ever be comfortable.
10. You wonder who your children will end up with.
Oh you just wonder !
Mother's never really rest.

Sweet Mother!

A mother's intuition, never to be underestimated.
12:36am about to go to bed and d same feeling every night to go check on my son (he sleeps alone in his room) came to me . I wanted to ignore just because I just carried him to the bathroom about 5 mins earlier, then I remembered an incident (real reason why I'm sharing this).                                    
I was so tired one night, my husband was away for work (one of those nights that you don't even care to check if the house is in order just because your bed is calling), then I had this very strong feeling to go check on my son, at first I ignored but then I thought 'never, ever will I ignore any thought to check on my son'. I forced myself to his room and I almost passed out, my heart I am sure skipped several beats because of the sound I heard followed with what I saw. There on the bed my son was struggling to breath just because he had wrapped himself up in his duvet, wrapped up like a serious candy in its wrapper (if you ever did laundry manually remember the way you squeeze excess water from a  very big bedsheet spread with someone on each end twisting in opposite directions at the same time). Yep that's how my son was wrapped up in his duvet, till today I have no idea how that happened. It took about 10 seconds to get him out and he was covered in sweat (as in drenched in his own sweat). I was so scared I didn't even remember I was feeling sleepy I immediately carried him to our room for the rest of the night.
It took God to give me the 'mother's intuition and it also took his grace not to ignore the feeling. I thank God for these little mercies that I continue to experience in my life and I pray that the Lord will continue to use me to help my family in every aspect. As this year runs out I am looking back and thanking God for all I have achieved,  all that I am yet to achieve, for the miracle of sleeping and waking, Oh Lord I thank you. You are forever number 1 in my life may the joy of motherhood visit all my friends waiting for the fruit of the womb. Bopetiti akololo yio pe baba......
I thank God for all the wonderful men and women in my life, I thank God for planting each and everyone of them in my life for one reason or the other, some to teach me lessons of life and others to help me run the race of life. For the remainder of this year as this month is a blessed month because I am a December baby, the few days left shall be full of joy, miracles, unexpected blessings, overflowing abundance in our lives. We shall not die young, our children shall not die young and our parents shall live long enough to enjoy the fruits of their labor. This I pray oh Lord....

Motivation!

You can chose to exercise or you can chose not to exercise
You can chose to eat healthy or you can chose to eat junk food
You can chose to learn or you can chose to stay stagnant
You can chose to be beautiful or you can chose to be ugly
You can chose to be nice/kind or you can chose to be mean
You can chose to hardworking or you can chose to be lazy
You can chose to be overweight or you can chose to be healthy

Eat right, be happy, live life, be a blessing to everyone you come across.

Dealing With Employees Who Have Multiple Jobs!

A lot of times you employ workers who either have a job they were doing and want extra income, or employees who feel you don't pay them enough and rather than leave, they go on to get another job. In Nigeria it is a little difficult if you are fully employed to have a second job but if you own businesses like restaurants, salons, catering outfits, entertainment, event planning, supermarkets etc, you are sure to come across workers with multiple jobs. Below are some things to look out for and make sure to manage when dealing with these types of employees.

1. Disclosure. Before employment be sure to find out if your new hire has another job.
2. Tardiness. If an individual juggles two things at the same time, so be sure to make sure they are able to manage their time and let them know coming late to work is a no no.
3. Conflict of Interest. Be sure about the nature of the second job, all job functions must be clear and disclosed to you, make sure the other job is not your competitor. You don't want them taking information to their other job from yours.
4. Attention to detail. Make sure the employee is productive and not making unnecessary mistakes, usually juggling two jobs can be stressful and you don't want anyone who is unproductive around your business.
5. Is your company policy for or against it?
6. Which job takes precedence, yours of the other job?
7. Are they calling in sick just to go to the other job?

God's Hand In My Finances!

Friends,Family,Tithe, Faith….All part of my story

Something so awesome happened to me today, how cool it is to end your week in such an awesome way.
For about 2 months I have been trying to keep up financially, even though I was spending money, I knew things were not right as I was always on top of my game when it came to my finances. In all these I never for once stopped tithing. Last week I had practically used my last amount to pay my tithe knowing that I had a huge bill to pay in a couple of days.
I had actually struggled for a couple of hours before logging on to the church website to make my payments, while waiting I kept convincing myself it was because my atm card was somewhere in my purse and I was too busy to get it. Eventually I paid it ofcourse. That single action will make you understand why I need to tell my story.

4 days before my bill was due, I started setting cash aside, so I got some cash from my husband to add to what I had which was nothing close to what I had to come up with by the end of the week, for some reason I was so calm. I am not one to wait till last minute to get things done, yet for some weird reason I had peace like a river.
The day before the due date I was still unsure what I was doing.
I had 3 plans all slated for the last day if things did not work out…. 1. Call up my sister to help pay some cash in my account, 2. Call my friend to send some money to my account (we all have that one friend who is always there for us and you are always there for them financially, if she is ever broke then I am in trouble and if I am ever broke she is in trouble, we both explored all options before calling ourselves for help) 3. Call another friend who might have some money to send to me.
I woke up on my bill pay day, the first thing I did was to call my sister (see because of the time difference I had to let her know because, as my day is starting she is already half way through her day), for 4 straight hours my loving sister did not pick up her phone (like seriously), this is someone who I talk to almost everyday. Looking at the time, I switched to my second plan, as I was about to call my friend she sent a bbm asking if I had some cash till the end of the week (haaaaaa alakoba), I had to get myself together because the plan had already failed before it started sef. I told my friend what I was about to do and she was so surprised. She immediately swung into action, started telling me how she might have another plan for me blah blah (forgetting her own needs), to cut an already long story short she sent me some of her last money and told me to hold it in case her second plan fails. I was so happy the money had increased but still not complete.
On to my third plan, I buzz my second friend (forget phone activity o lol), I first asked her to holla at my sister. After a while she told me my sister’s phone was switched off (which kind woman be this babe, just when I needed her she disappeared on me,I did not even think of asking my sister’s husband where she was I guess God just made me forget about that). I told my friend how much I needed and she was like she was low on cash but was expecting some money that same day (I looked at my time and realized I might actually end up with nothing), she however told me to hang in there and expect her alert once her money comes in (Korede Bello’s I don get alert song came to me, hmm ok o God better win this one).
So you think all my plans failed abi?
Well an hour ;ater, my sister finally called me and she explained why her phone was off, I told her my plight and she asked me how much I needed, guess what I said….’please hold on just get your details ready and wait for me to give you a go ahead to pay the money’, am I a serious person atall?
Another 30 minutes (true story o I was looking at my watch), my second friend sends me a message ‘lucky you, I got the alert and I have sent you some money, remember I am owing you xxxx amount so consider that part payment’. Yekpa……immediately I read her message tears came to my eyes and I started talking to myself, I thought’ it was a miracle, no a coincidence’…..then as though something was trying to convince me it was not a big deal I shouted, ‘never, this is God’. I immediately went on my knees and started to thank God and asked for his forgiveness on how weak my faith was.
I forgot to tell you I had started fasting a day before, but broke the fast too early.
God was still faithful to me despite my short comings and despite the fact that I did not fulfill my own part of the bargain (FASTING),I was still able to pay up my bill and I have extra. To make things a lot more interesting, I don’t have to return the money because it’s mine, all mine!
What if I had not paid my tithe?
What if my friend had not gotten any payments, or was not ready to pay me?
What if my sister’s phone was on and she had paid in money which would have to be returned at the end of the day?
What if, just what if…….?
God is a faithful God no matter how much we fail him, he always proves himself to us, there is nothing like coincidence, atleast I do not believe in random events. I see God’s hands in my life, he has blessed me with good people and I will not trade my friends for yours sorry….

Please share my story so people can believe in the power of tithing, that 10% is not yours, never plan with it. Thanks to my mother who taught me the power of tithing. When you get paid 1,000,000, plan with 900,000 because the 100,000 is not yours, if you spend it you have actually taken money from your spiritual well of prosperity.Teach your children to tithe, hearing from church might not do the magic. When they see the Lord's hands in their parents finances they will do the same.

Please share my story because I am so excited.

Sorry the write up was too long but I had to rant………For 3 hours I played this song below repeatedly on my phone.
I will definitely have a great weekend so you guys should too.

I got alert and God won this one as he always will in every aspect of my life ‪#‎Godwin‬

Body Shaming!

So this lady who saw me last about 4 years ago, looks at me and calls out my name. She held me hands and looked at her husband 'I did not even recognize her, she has added so much weight'. I kept smiling respectfully only for her to pull me back again and she was like 'you have to lose that weight o'.
Well I like to be slimmer too but just an hour before that my husband was still telling me how I looked kind of funny when I lost like 25 pounds about a year ago, he told me he had a picture and that he thought I looked strange, my legs looked bigger than my body lol. He told me to keep fit and continue to do my daily exercise and that we would probably have to go for a tummy tuck because he does not want my buttocks to disappear.

It's so funny how people seem to care so much about your weight but they actually have no idea what you want for yourself.

In Life People Will Make Money.....!

1. By working for other people who have money.

2. By using their own brains to start something that will make money for them.
3. By stealing public funds (e.g. politicians,pastors,club treasurers, contracts, 419,yahooyahoo,oil bunkering etc)
4. By knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone who is rich.
5. By marriage (you marry a rich kid and your father/mother in law happens to like you).
6. By hailing a rich man all day everyday
7. By stealing from others.
8. By getting to the right place at the right time, (trying to urinate inside a bush when an armed robber decides to toss a bag of money in the the same bush to avoid being caught by the police)
9. By winning lottery (oje lotto)
10. By being generous with his/her body (asewo tinz,runs tinz,stripping tinz)
11. By BIRTH (abimisi inu ola)
12. By luck (get adopted by rich man,get hit by rich man's car etc)
13. By next of kinship (life insurance, will betrothal etc)
14. By lawsuit (sue my job for slipping on a wet floor and breaking my ribs).
15. By divine intervention (well can be anyhow, God's ways are not our ways depends on how steadfast you are in your walk with God)
16. By making money rituals (this one always has a 'but', 'ewo', most of the time they end up dying mysteriously)
17. By stealing other people's ideas (can be classified under number 2 but not in all cases)

Feel free to add your own ways of how people make money,how did you/your friend make money?
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Hello I am British....American.....Canadian..: Actually I am Nigerian!

Omgosh,
I had been having issues with my Zenith bank internet banking and I had to wait till this morning to call customer service. The lady that I spoke to told me her name and she started the regular verification before assisting me, and she sounded pretty Nigerian, you know yoruba girl (my tribe) and good etiquette, good English but somehow somehow......before the call was terminated my lovely babe's accent changed to British and I had to quickly cut the phone to laugh out loud.
Why are we so fake, I don't think I spoke any Americana o but for some reason this chick just wanted to flex sa.

I love Books Still.....

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Defriended But No Longer Interested In Friendship

Smiling to myself.... Saturday morning just had breakfast and relaxing while my husband watches his usual long and boring football (I need to watch my Yoruba movies, but patiently waiting). I start browsing through Facebook and get to the part where you can see people you may know. There, I find someone who actually used to be my friend on Facebook and I wonder why we are no longer friends, then I remember..... I was to visit nigeria sometime ago and dis chick had wanted me to bring stuff for her and I honestly told her I could not, not because I was hating but just because I could not. Na so the babe defriended me o, cos I remember I had wanted to buzz her and explain but for some reason didn't remember her name as it appeared on fb. Well that's life some people hate you for being honest and some love u for being fake, I have since scrolled past dis chick's name and the world will not end if I lose 1 of 1000+ friends on fb lol. My true friends know me, 'if romoke can't do it she will tell you straight up.....' I tell people I feel being fake is too stressful so why would I want to go the stressful route?

D'banj, Shadow boxer and Idriis (Idris Elba): Confidential!

Was just minding my business on social media when I found these two songs. I was at first confused I had no idea Idris could sing, so I went looking for his songs and I found a second one that really appealed to me. Ladies your guy would love the beat but you would especially love the swag. Dbanj will rock the party world for some months from now on.....

Play away.....Good mood music I call it!

The Food Guy!

I call this guy the food guy because I just don't know what to call him, he seems to know what he's doing and observe the neat way he presents his finished meal. I have made a collection of all his 7 videos for your entertainment. You know when you go to the salon and find out a guy is going to make your hair, the feeling you have knowing that he probably does not want to mess your hair up and wants to make you happy. Well... don't blame me that's the kind of feeling I have when I watch this Tunde guy cook.

For recipes visit his page 

Indomie Guy!

Awesome!

Yet some people will be forming class that there are some jobs they cannot do, when bills are to be paid who cares what this guy does for a living?

I keep saying food business, if done right is one of the best job creators. Even that chubby man who seems older that this boy is working for him (the one putting chicken on people's plate).

Video credit: battabox video

Life is Hard Right?

Have you ever wondered why life seems so easy with some people but with you everything seems to be like an examination? Well, the thing is you only know what goes on in your life, no matter how well your neighbor looks, you have no clue what he/she is going through.

* Live your life
* Stop procrastinating
* Be happy no matter what
* Always give thanks
* Look to always increase your knowledge
* Socialise
* Be curious and ask questions
* Reward yourself

Have a great day guys!

Comfy VS Evil?

If you don't love these shoes, you might not be as classy as you think. So I found this shoes to add to my pshoppers collection and decided to honor it (lol) by writing a piece on it.

This design is by Calvin Klein and is 4 inches high, it comes in different colors (black,cream,vapor snake,red), the red is my favorite.Some colors are a bit higher than others. These pair of shoes are lovely and comfortable, trust me when I say shoes are comfortable. As much as I love shoes, I don't want corns on my toes. When I tell you a pair of shoes are evil, then take my word for it and make sure to have a slipon in your car when going out with an evil shoe. What can I say, I love shoes and nothing can come between my love for shoes. When you try on heels to a party just for about 20 minutes when you are heavily pregnant, then you know your love for shoes has really gone to another level.

So there goes!

Life Lessons: Cristiano Ronaldo Pranks Madrid!

It is so so funny how people can ignore you when they feel you do not matter, once they see that you are a force to recon with, they cling to you like lice on a dog. Cristiano Ronaldo proved that when he pranked people on the street in Madrid. The funniest part was where he asked for a girl's number she said NO! (if only she knew lol). Life lessons........

Watch Video below....

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Shopping Experience. From the Shopper's perspective!

I recently visited Nigeria and decided to meet some of my clients for the first time by delivering their items in person. Some of my clients are no strangers to me and some, I have no idea who they really are, except for their tastes and nice pictures that they send to me. I actually have no idea where they live, or how they look in real life. I have a friend I have been shopping for for almost 7 years and I wanted to share pictures of her recent purchases. The first purse is a Calvin Klein purse which I got for her on a second thought. When I saw the purse I thought it would be a great buy for her (I do that to my clients, they don't have to tell me what they need because I know what I have bought for them and what goes with what). The second is a Dooney & Burke purse, she wanted the color but was not sure of the style she wanted. I know a lot of Nigerian ladies are used to Michael Kors, Tory Burch, Coach, Ralph Lauren and so on, I decided to get her this because it's an unlikely brand name. I love to shop but it can be boring shopping for yourself, I decided to do it for others. 

My Thoughts This Sunday......

Sometimes I ask myself if it is worth it atall, I now understand why so many people are mean and stand offish in their ways. The answer is they no longer want to let people in, because they have been hurt over and over again by the people they cared about. Taking stock of my life I realized that many people who I have tried to stand by have one way or the other hurt me deeply. They have either dropped me by the way side or tried to tarnish my image. I have decided to care only for me and myself alone from now on,  and then some other things that matter will find their way into my life.

If you ask me why I am just realizing this, I have actually thought about it a lot of times, just that I did not pay much attention to it. Yesterday night I was watching #orangisthenewblack , 2nd season where Piper lied just because Alex wanted her to so that their lives will not be in danger, piper insisted she would only tell the truth but at the court room, she decided to lie, only for piper to come back and apologized that she actually told the truth (this made piper an offender because she has been presumed to lie under oath). That is where I stopped before my thoughts took the better part of me and I came to the conclusion that people would always do what is best for them, so what makes me different when I chose to do what is best for me?

Well my thoughts for this Sunday actually........but then again Jesus did care more for others than they cared for him.

Life is hard!

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