The date was 8/3/2011 --- it was yesterday and it was a Saturday. I had stopped by at 3XX Lakefield Drive, Murphy, Texas. I had bought this house about eleven years earlier. It was brand new and custom built by one of the better builders in the Texas. But now I had been ordered to vacate my own house for the woman who in fact has filed for a divorce against me. Like I said, it was no wahala like they say back in Nigeria. While I concede that in a divorce situation, the law is grossly stacked against the male species, particularly the black male, I had not one problem with letting the wife take over the house, I reckoned, my children will live there too. This was enough consolation for me.

The visit to the house yesterday was to accomplish two things:

1. To see my children for maybe thirty minutes before I head towards Houston for my High School re-union which was holding on that day.
2. To drop a check for $1500 which were made out in two checks 

• a Citibank Check for $500 
• a Chase Check for $1000, the two Checks make for the court ordered child support payment imposed upon me in court arrangement for three children pending the final decree in December. 

Paying $1500 in child support is no big deal to me, even though this amount is my entire first net paycheck of my first payment of the month. The second payment in the month is used to pay for my other bills, my rent and my car payment and other utility bills. The child support is a huge sacrifice for me, I just pray that my children know that their father put their well being first ahead of his own comfort.

As to the planned trip to Houston, it did not happen, I decided against it, I was not able to truly justify driving 4 hours to and 4 hours back from Houston just for a re-union party, I guess there was no one there I badly needed to re-connect with, perhaps next year I will be at the re-union, God knows where the next one will be at.