The Isiatonijes

17/10/2024

Throwback Thursday.

These photos captures when we moved into our newly built home in Nigeria.

The joy was palpable, a house where I get to say what happens or not . My very own space!😂😂

We built this house without any idea that we’d be relocating after one year, and when we did, people kept asking why we’d leave the new house for relocation. If I had my way, I would have carried the house along shaa. 😂😂

Would we have built it if we knew we’d leave Nigeria ? yes for me, but my hubby thinks he’d have waited until after our move. So we are both team ‘Live abroad and have your house at home’ because home will remain home, and whenever we visit home, we’d always have our personal space. ❤️

Are you team ‘Live abroad and own a house at home’ or team ‘It’s a w8ste of resources’ ?

Look at my boys and guess what year this is.😂😂

16/10/2024

When I created this fb page, a few friends suggested sharing my contents to TT but I honestly didn’t heed. TT for me is just a storage space for my videos after I’ve happily shared them here, I really didn’t care about views and engagements weren’t my priority.
A few months ago, i uploaded a video and surprisingly gained 25, 000 within an hour! That video now has over 57,000 views.

I went in yesterday to save a video as usual, and somehow joined a friend’s live steam and she told me openly that if I invested time on TT, my beautiful videos would have done way better. I don’t know why her own advise stuck, I just a few more live streams and have gotten over 250 new followers in less than 24 hours.😳😳

I plan to focus on TT in the coming weeks. Once I reach 1,000 followers, I'll reassess my online presence.

Picture is our new school uniform organiser. ❤️❤️

16/10/2024

Next week is Half term for the boys, and I have also booked one week annual leave. I can’t wait to spend quality time and have so much fun with my boys. Parents and guardians, please give us tips on full time fun activities to do with children during cold season. I really want this coming week to be very fulfilling for us.💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

16/10/2024

Have you gotten a delivery before, of something you bought, but just can’t fathom what’s inside it until it’s opened ? 😂. Let’s unwrap these items. 💃🏻💃🏻

15/10/2024

My Second son has repeatedly said he wants to do music, and do concerts and own the biggest YouTube platform. He stands at the mirror every day and tells himself he’s gonna be the biggest musician of his time, and that his concert tickets will be the real gold.😂😂

I don’t know what to say my brethren.

This is me, the understanding mother, battling the African mother traits in me, because where we come from, our mothers majorly want law or medicine or engineering for us all. 👇👇

15/10/2024

Don’t let your kids live unnecessarily r0ugh and ha rd lives when you have the means to do otherwise, because you want them stronger. They are just kids, what they need is to be safe and happy. They will get strong when the time comes, and childhood never rewinds.

14/10/2024

My neighbour personally crafted and gifted me this beautiful shawl a few days ago, and I can't get enough of it. This is why children cling to new belongings, refusing to part with them. 😂😂

As winter approaches, this stunning wrap will be my new signature look, whether I'm dressed casually, professionally, or even traditionally, it will drape elegantly around me.🙈🙈

Do find yourself a neighbour like mine😂💃🏻

14/10/2024

Unbox our special Amazon package with us. This is so exciting! 🛒🤸🤸🤸

Check comment section.🙏🏼🙏🏼

12/10/2024

12/10/2024

Took my boys for their Halloween costumes shopping, and just got home a while ago. I went upstairs to get something now and these boys are in bed, wearing their costumes and seriously asking me to let them wear them to sleep. What is wrong with kids ? 😩😩

12/10/2024

Making my boys useful on a Saturday morning. ❤️❤️

12/10/2024

I gained 1,198 followers, created 521 posts and received 14,374 reactions in the past 90 days! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

11/10/2024

My baby, who told my neighbour I said they shouldn’t eat in her house, jejely enjoying himself there this evening, because I asked him to forget about what I said.😂😂😂😂

11/10/2024

If your dream/goal intimidates and makes you nervous, that’s it! That is the dream worthy of pursuit.

09/10/2024

Just came back from work, and my lovely neighbour got us cakes. This sweet boy of mine did not succeed in putting as.undêr. (kidding😂😂)

Guess what he’s saying here. 😂😂😂

09/10/2024

My 5 years old son ran into my room, bursting with excitement, pulled down his knickers, and asked me to tell him what I see.

Me: that’s your pen*s , don’t do that, pull your knickers up.

Oddy: calm down, I’ve got the most beautiful pen*s! Look and tell me you don’t see the beauty. You created me and you gave me the most beautiful p***s ever! Admire your masterpiece!

Me:👇👇👇👇

09/10/2024

Unbox a few essentials with us. 🛒

I am the one who spent money shopping, but they are the ones correcting my grammar. 😩

08/10/2024

Who’s awake ? 😀😀😀

08/10/2024

Whenever I take my boys to my neighbours’ house, she makes them meals, it doesn’t matter that they most times go with food, she just prepares something special for her kids and mine, and my boys enjoy this a lot.

While I was taking them there last weekend, I sat them down and explained that I don’t want them eating there all the time, so my neighbour doesn’t keep thinking of what to make for them, because she knows they are very picky eaters. I explained that if she continues making meals for them for every time they go there, it may really become stressful for her, and she may get tired of having them, and that I don’t want her to get tired of having them. I explained that they could eat there, but it shouldn’t be an everyday thing. I said to them, ‘if she sets out to make a meal for you, or ask you to choose what she’d make, please say you aren’t hungry, and that she shouldn’t worry herself. Don’t let her spend her time, making meals for you, especially today, as It’s Saturday, and she may have chores to do, and would need to rest too, so just play when you get there and please, don’t even forget what I just said or I won’t let you go there again.

I came back from shopping, and my neighbour told me that my 5 year old Oddy told her that they are not allowed to eat in her house, and if they do, I won’t let them come there again. 😩😩😩

Me: 👇👇👇👇👇👇

07/10/2024

While we were still in the temporary house because the main house was being renovated, I automatically headed to the main house after work, twice! Now that we’ve moved back to the main house, I caught myself about to cross the road to the temporary house, before my brain screamed ‘Girl this is not home anymore!’ 😂😂😂

07/10/2024

Today, I’m grateful for the gift of good neighbours/ friends here. The feeling of having wonderful humans around you is one of the best feelings anyone would have, it’s relieving and refreshing. It feels like God handpicked the very best of all categories of people here, to make life soft for me.

When I was on sick leave, and my hubby was away, they stepped in. My neighbour would take the boys to school and bring them back everyday. Whenever we are at work and and not able to make it back home before dismissal, my neighbour would bring them back and even willingly offer to take them to school if that would help too. See ehhh, I don’t want to write much, but these acts of kindness are testaments to the power of a community. I’m grateful and I feel so lucky and blessed.

To my neighbour, if you see this, I’m grateful for the gift of you. ❤️❤️❤️

07/10/2024

While we were having lunch yesterday.

My 5 year old Oddy : I want to talk about something that’s bothering me, but you are gonna deny it.

Me: what is it ?

Oddy: you treat Rika better than you treat me.

Me: excuse me ? How ? 😳😳

Oddy: Rika just said he’s tired of eating, and you asked if he wants you to feed him instead, and then I said I’m tired of eating and you said I should eat my meat and leave you alone.

Me: no, you had already eaten well, Rika hadn’t touched his own at all

Oddy: I still feel hǔ rt, I can’t help it.

Me: Okay, do you want me to feed you?

Oddy: yes please .

Gave him a spoonful of food.

Oddy: you are such a wonderful mother.

Me: 👇👇👇👇👇

06/10/2024

Packing out of a house is a such a Herculean task, how much more packing out, and then packing in back into the house after just a few months, with all the properties in the house.

What we did and how fast we did, is one of the reasons why two is better than one because how would I have done all these packing and unpacking without my partner ? By the time I got back from work the days we did these moving, all the properties were already in their places, something that would have taken me atleast one week to sort out.😂

I’m glad this is over, and I can now concentrate on other things.

BTW, when some people complain of having terr1b1e landlords in this UK. Daughter of Zion and her family cannot relate in any way. 😂😂

05/10/2024

Has parental karma happened to you before ? 😂😂

Okay wait, do you repr1mand your kids when they do something annoying but obviously not deliberate? Things like breaking glasses/ plates, spilling things, losing an item, I mean, do you ignore them because you know it’s not deliberate ? Do you repr1mand them nonetheless, because you are an adult and you can ? When you reprimand them, what do you do to yourself when you do the same thing ?

I remind myself not to reprimand my sons when they mistakenly do SOME things that feel ann0y1ng, because I know they don’t do these things deliberately and that even as an adult, I make similar mistakes .

My kitchen drawer banged while Rika was trying to close it, and then he looked at me, and said he didn’t mean to, I opened my mouth to say something but just uttered okay. After about ONE minuite, that same drawer banged as I was trying to close it ,😂 the karma didn’t even take time at all, and my son looked at me and said ‘don’t worry, it’s not deliberate’. 😂😂

Today I’m proud of myself because I know exactly what he would have asked me if I had repr1manded him earlier .😂🤣😂🤣😂