Appreciating Myself, The Best Of Me ||| Ladies Of Hive Contest #131

Appreciating ourselves is self care and self care is self love Each and every one of us has a unique story. Every story is valid. I try as much as possible to appreciate my life journey, enjoy every moment, and the little things of life.

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Thank to ladies of hive community for giving us another opportunity to express ourselves again this week in this contest, to join in the fun, kindly check out this link

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I have a lot of best of me photos, but I will be sharing these ones because of the special stories behind them. And please pardon me in advance as I ended up sharing more than three.

This one happens to make the list because it is one of those I love most. There is just something about that my natural hair corn roll that trips me a lot. The date was December 11 2021. I represented hubby my then fiancee, and together with some of his colleagues at a Fulani settlement somewhere around Abuja. We went to purchase some goats for rearing. While others were waiting for the farmers to arrive I was exploring the vast area of the land with trees and livestock. I took many selfies that day and this particular one is my favorite.

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And here was a special mom and daughter's moment.
Taken by hubby, October 31 2022. It was the sixth week of the arrival of our son and mom has been with us throughout that time. The last time we spent that much time together was before my high school graduation. Having her with me during that fragile moment of my life was precious and I'm so glad. We were stepping out for the first time in six weeks to go for my son's vaccination. I couldn't miss not having that shot with mom. She had always been a shoulder for me to learn on and once again she came through for us❤

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This photo of me pumped up on my google photo a week ago as the best of September 2021. A selfie taken by me on the 22nd.

You know that smile when your hustle finally starts making sense. I will get up most morning, get dressed , then look at myself in the mirror and say to myself well done girl. Sometimes that is all my weird head needs to hear to kick start a great and productive day.

All my grinding and marketing strategy at my honey's store was finally paying off. I was getting steadily new and returning customers. Aside from this, I just added a new product tiger nut milk drink home made by me and my customers were tripping over it.

So each day I dressed up, put up my best smile and attended to my customer's requests. I felt so confident and happy knowing that I'm meeting some people's needs somewhere and they believed in my ability and what I was offering.

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I'm the one on blue cloth with my elder sister. With her the adventure side of me can rise within a twinkle of an eye hehe .

We haven't seen each other in a while, about two years or so. I visited her to inform her of my forthcoming wedding. Along the line, She took me on a crazy bike ride to see some fish ponds and plantain farms where she was working as a supervisor, some miles from her house and that was on November 6, 2021.

This photo was taken by me while she was riding. Doing that with her was fun and I held on to the photo dearly ever since then.

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We spent some time beside this pond, throwing feeds for the fishes, while we watched them swarm up and grab them.

After some time we hunted for some orange fruits in the farm to quench our taste. There is always something refreshing when I spend time in a natural environment like this. Free from all the noise of the city while I enjoy the blessings of nature. Apart from spending time with my family, blogging on #hive my next happy place is places like this

The End
Thank you very much,
Take care ❤