21:59 Tabutany ak Cheplangat
A letter from mama to her son
9/1/2015
Dear son,
Am happy you visited us for Christmas. You and your whole family. Thanks for
the 2kg of sugar you brought us, that's what we have used for the 2weeks you
have been around. That big loaf you came with, your children fought for it n am
surprised they finished
it.
Thank you for the 2kg of baking flour which we used to cook chapati on
Christmas day.
It has been hard for the 2 weeks you have been around,hiring people to go to
the river now that your wife could not because of her expensive hair yet she bathes 3times a day.
I had to wash utensils because of her long painted nails which can't stay in
water.
I do hope my panga bar soap they used to bathe while here will not affect them;
we couldn't afford a toilet soap.
I hope each of your kids is happy for l
gave a chicken to each though none said a mere
thank you.
Tell your wife next time l will not give her eggs because she left my bedding
dirty
after sleeping on them for 2 weeks. After packing for you 2sacks of maize we
are only left with 2sacks, l know hunger will attack us in the year.
The severe, chelwanda and sukumawiki will take 2weeks to sprout
again after your wife
plucked them carelessly.
The beans, sugarcanes, millet we packed for you were from Justina our neighbor,
l
borrowed when your kids insisted they wanted. The banana l gave you, l would
have sold it
at 700/=. I know you will not call us any soon till August when you will want
us to send u
maize through Easy coach.
Please try when you come in Dec again, you build a house for your family.
Sharing this small house with your father and your wife n 5children is hard.
We are left here in our poverty, your younger sister Chepyos who has been
washing
your children's clothes is here with us, no hope of going back to school coz we
have no
money to pay her fees.
Your wife left with my head scarf and slippers, am left with none.
We wish you a happy year.
Your
mother
Obot Kures
