The Diary Game: How We Celebrate Children’s Day Our Own Way For Our Kids (27/05/2026)

It’s children’s day and as parents our own little way of celebrating them is making them happy and on the other end, It’s also a time of sober reflection as children are been held in the forest by bandits as at the time. It’s a time to pray for the kids and also ours for Gods protection.So we didn’t go out but we dress up our kids and take photos of them together. We prepared smoky jollof rice and bought them snacks and drinks. In the early hours of the day, I pray for them asking God for is protection over them and I ask God to grant them wisdom in all areas of life. I appreciate my daughter for been there always assisting me with chores and taking care of is brother. I brush my son teeth,I bath my son and dress him up. I ask my daughter to brush her teeth and take her bath as well. I give her outfit and tell her to get dress for a home shoot pictures. My son ask that is sister back him at first and I captured the moment. It’s beautiful to look back at.

My daughter backing is brother for a home shoot as demanded by is brother

The children’s day is a day to remember so that we can create memories for future purpose. Pictures revives specific details, the event, purpose, our faces, locations and weather. Keeping all as memories. We keep memories as such so that the kids can tell when they grow up. They’ll be able to relate how they’re parents bring them up in love and creating time for them in little ways that makes meaningful impact. I try to capture my son a thousand time before I could get one shot of him. My daughter on the other end was trying to change different styles so I can capture. It was fun doing all of these with them. After taking all the beautiful photos of them, hubby got them snacks and I ask them to pull off their dresses so it doesn’t get stained. My daughter helped in pulling us brothers cloth. She takes her own part of the goodies to her room and eat.

While trying to capture my son as he’s busy running

My daughter trying different styles for shoot

I couldn’t capture my daughters goodies as she takes it to her room. She later showed me where she kept the rest she ate remain inside the room. I take a picture of it and head to the kitchen to cook a Smokey jollof rice for the family. I wash my peppers and blend. I get a sachet tomato paste from the kitchen store and slice onion. I get the pot of rice ready and groundnut oil. I wash my rice and I get seasoning and spices ready as well. I poured oil into a dry pot and allow it get hot a bit and poured my onions, spices and bay leaf, I stir and poured my grinded pepper and sachet tomato paste and allow it cook for about 5minutes, I add seasoning and protein broth into the fried pepper and cover it for 10minutes. I opened and stir and poured boiled water and add rice, I put the gas in a low heat to steam up the rice. I check from time to time to add hot water in case there’s need to.

my son eating from the goodies daddy bought them, after changing his clothes

The rest of the goodies my daughter kept in her room

After 1hour, I checked the rice and it’s all done and I dish out hubby own first and the kids thereafter. The rice is so delicious as my daughter says because I didn’t taste it and couldn’t it the moment I finished cooking because of the aroma and lot more I already perceive while cooking. I dish the food out in style, in a way they’ll love to eat it. I take a drink to cool down the heat of cooking and I relax while I watch my kids eat and enjoy their meal.

The big pot of rice I cooked

Dishing the rice in style