3/1/2015
Dear son,
Hope you and your family reached Nairobi safe and thanks for visiting us and your entire family this Christmas.
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 and I am surprised they finished it.
Thank you for the 2kg of baking flour which we cooked chapati on Christmas day.
Thanks for the two rolls of tissue paper ,your kids and wife used them ,so we are back to the normal leaves !
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 2weeks.
After packing for you 2sacks of maize we are only left with 2sacks, l know hunger will attack us in the year.
The seveve, murenda and tsimboka will take 2weeks to sprout again after your wife plucked them carelessly.
The beans, sugarcanes, millet we packed for you were from Anami our neighbour, l borrowed when your kids insisted they wanted.
The banana l gave you, I would have sold it at 700/=.
I know you will not call us any soon till August when you will want us to send you maize through Easycoach.
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 Okinyo 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 n slippers, am left with none.
We wish you a happy year.
Your mother
