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My husband and I moved to the US immediately after getting married and We have lived there eversince. We had our two kids over there and I am currently pregnant with the third. My husband wanted us to all come home to Nigeria for the Christmas holiday but we decided to come at the end of….
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November to enable us have more time to see family members and show our kids around their mother land. The last time we'd been to Nigeria was in 2021. My husband's younger brother lives in our house to help us maintain it. It was initially him and their elder sister until she got married and moved out in 2021…
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Last year my younger sister got admitted to the university of Lagos and moved in.We got to Nigeria on the 22nd of November and the house was ready to welcome us. They'd both done a good job at keeping the house tidy and it even looked better than it had when we left years ago.…
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We were really grateful for this and we gifted them the Mac books we'd bought for each of them.l am used to celebrating thanksgiving in the states and even though it isn't usually celebrated in Nigeria, decided to do so and invite our family members. This was to double as a family reunion since everyone wanted to come visit and welcome us back home….
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Our house is a two story building with 8 rooms which was more than enough to accommodate everyone. My husband and I stayed in the masters bedroom, our son(Williams) shared a room with my brother in law and while my daughter(Sandra)stayed with my sister till everyone left. Two days to thanksgiving……
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we went to the market and bought a bag of rice as well as other things to cook enough food for everyone present. A day to thanksgiving, family members started arriving and it was an emotional day. Our house is a two story building with 8 rooms which was more than enough to accommodate everyone. It was an emotional day with a lot of tears and laughter…
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It felt so good to be back home.We started handing out the gifts we brought for everyone and catching up on things that'd been happening. The next day was thanksgiving and everyone spent the entire day preparing the thanksgiving dinner. The men were in charge of killing the goat and turkey we'd bought,
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grilling, etc while we the women focused on cooking at the backyard. We made food for the kids to eat before dinner and asked them to come get it from the kitchen.l went to the dinning to see that my husband's uncle(uncle Timothy)sons weren't eating with the others.I asked them why they weren't eating and they said it was because nobody brought food to them…
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Puzzled, I pointed out that everyone had gone to get their food themselves from the kitchen where l'd served them on a big tray. These boys then went to the kitchen to get the food grumbling. I went back to the backyard after this and tried to ignore how rude that was. An hour later, my daughter walked up to me angrily and I asked her what the matter was…
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Contd please
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Nice thread
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Very interested story
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