"Contest!!!!!! Goodbye to 2024 @cletuskevin"

Happy New Year to all my estimable Steemians!
Hoping everyone is fine. I am so happy to participate in this Steem engagement challenge organized by @drhira in STEEM KIDS & PARENTS community. I will use the hint provided in this contest to make my post entry in this contest.

Do you think 2024 was lucky for you.

Without any mincing of words, of course 2024 was indeed a lucky year for me in so many facets. The interesting thing about this contest is how that it made me to sit down and critically evaluate the year 2024 and all that it brought to me. The success the year 2024 brought to me, the progress and advancement even in ministry, family life among many others was indeed a top notch.

Worthy to note among others, most importantly I enjoyed increase in my own family numerically as I welcome my first fruits in the year 2024 in the month is January.

I also enjoyed a steady flow of income financially in the year 2024 despite the prevailing hardship in my Country's economy and the world at large. It was indeed my year of fortune as well as my year of flourishing.

Finally, year 2024 is the year I got introduced on steemit which I considered as a great fortune to me because it has created much hope of a better tomorrow to my future, also I met a lot of friends here on the platform and I have learnt a lot in somany ways from mentors, Moderators and so many Steemians.

What are your sweet memories in year 2024.

The First Memory
Among many memories in the year 2024 was the very day my wife put to bed our first fruits which happens to be a bouncing baby boy. The joy of being a father on that day was an experience I have never had, that was the first day I registered my name among fathers. I was so excited to see my kind which is absolutely my own blood.

A day old

The Second Memory
The day I took my first flight ever in life. I was invited for an Advance Leadership Training to and fro our Church Headquarters. My flight ticket was fully paid for to and fro, this was the very first time I got the experience of traveling by air/plane. A day before that day was full of imaginations particularly the night before, I was imagining how the experience would be 😁😁😁😁. Honestly speaking at the airport I was too eager, it looks as if they were wasting my time because I don't want anything that would later come and take away that experience. When we took off, I watched how we began to change altitudes, gradually structures that where very big in the eyes suddenly began to look tiny and tiny in my eyes 😁😁😁.
When we reached our destination I wasn't happy because in my mind we arrived too fast and this sweet experience was about to be cut short now. I lost the pictures we snapped at the airport and inside the plane but I still have a few of those pictures at the program in the month of March 2024 as you can see here below.

Share any beautiful moments you will miss.

Of course! There are many beautiful moment I really missed, one among which is; 2024 happens to be the first year of me being a biological father to someone. The experience also came with lots of practicals, it gave me an experience of fatherhood particularly to a small or little baby that barely understand anything and can not talk or respond to you. Whenever you are playing with the baby the only responses you get are facial expressions such as smiles, frowns or sometimes laughter or crying as the case may be. His first year as a living being and the changes he undergoes from day one is a great memory I missed so much. Watching him growing gradually from day old till now that he can eat, play, crowl and is also trying to walk and speak by himself is one of the things I indeed going to missed.

A week old

Two (2) months old

Three (3) months old

Eleven (11) months old

Thanks for going through my entries, good luck.

I wish to invite @josepha, @saintkelvin17 and @sampabiswas to also make there entries.