NOW, IT'S PAY BACK TIME!

Something funny and weird happened to me yesterday night. I just have to tell you guys about it.

I have this daughter ( my last kid) who is 5 years and some, whom I have been trying to evacuate from my room since she turned 2 years old! But she just refused to budge. :-l

I or rather we ('cos her father was involved)have tried everything we could to get her out; from having a 'conference' with her and her older siblings so as to work out an 'evacuation' plan to putting up her picture on my dp (BBM) so as to publicly 'humiliate' her, to screeching at her, to openly abusing her, to lifting her back to her room in the middle of the night! We have even issued out threats of putting her situation out there on YouTube!  Her siblings even threatened to tell her friends at school and she would retort "I don't care!" These we did consistently and persistently for 3 and a half years!

* we no try?!*

Well, all my daughter had to say to all these was,"Mummy, Daddy, don't worry, I'll leave when I am 5 years old,"....Waaat?! And she was only 3 years old when she delivered the speech and it was none negotiable!  My husband and I looked at each other and thought...We can pull through this, we just had to! After-all, her being 5 years old was just a few months away! #inyourdreamz

My baby turned 5 years old last September and I remember telling her "Don't forget your promise O!" "I know", she replied with a straight face. * wetin consign me, all I know is dat Ghana musto go!*

You know guys, this gial refused to go O! She would hang around the door of our room like a dark cloud or a bad viral infection!  Until you are forced to let her in! I don't even know why I bothered  with the contraceptive sef...has the chic not lasted in my room as long as the contraceptive? She was already our contraceptive!

Anyway, this problem fast became a 'prayer point' and she would even answer "Amen" to that.  We knew our daughter had to leave one day when, I and her Dad wanted to 'study' and her Dad lifted her up forcefully and took her to her room. Do you know that for the first time, I witnessed a real life tantrum! She developed sudden 'breathing' problems, coughing with tears in her eyes...all these was so that we could allow her stay. I fell for it O! But my husband refused to fall O! He maintained his stance and even issued her a serious warning never to sleep in our room or she would face the consequences! 

Since then, we have had no 'intruders'...but you see, it's only been 5 days, so do you think it's too soon for me to jubilate? But I have never had a straight 5 days! :-/

Anyway to cut matter short, we had issues with the AC plug in our room and me, I couldn't manage a hot room for just 1 night. So I decided to stay in my daughter's room (which was enviably chilled) for the night! She refused O! She said I was too old to be staying in her room! I couldn't believe my ears! I was at her mercy O!

"Mummy, don't worry, it's just for the night!" I said to her.
"No mummy, it's PAY BACK TIME!" she replied with a sneer, sounding like all those evil things in vampire movies.

I just hissed and found meself a space to lay me head. And that is how I slept...And well.

Have I not suffered?!  *wide-eyed*