must move on!
Thanks everyone for the past three odd years, and some. Its hard to imagine a blog life without you all, but we’re excited nonetheless.
Continue to remember us in your prayers.
Lots of love,
Imran & Sheza
flu-shing out March 13, 2008
The past week has been crazy at our lil place. It all started with Eesa having a cough since last Wednesday, followed by Hana catching it and then Imran and now I. Alhamdolillah its a blessing in disguise inshaAllah.
Eesa kept pulling on his ear all through the last two nights and kept complaining of an ear ache. So yesterday, we ventured out to give Dr Hafiz (our trusty paediatrician) a visit. Alhamdolillah altho his ears are red, his throat glands show that his immune system has kicked in so alhamdolillah we got away without antibiotics. Dr hafiz gave us the prescription for the anti biotics just incase his fever started staying too high. I’ve been making him gargle for a few days and he absolutely LOVES it. I make him do it in the bathtub so he has a blast spraying water all over.
At the clinic, Eesa absolutely loved laying down on the patients bed and getting himself checked. He lifted his shirt up for Dr Hafiz to hear his heart beat and then insisted that his blood pressure should be checked too (Dr Levielle used to do that for my prenatal appointments and he used to help out!).
I dont think I updated my blog last week but my envira challenge for this month is: water conservation. In one of the emails that I got from Envira Plus, they mentioned that us north american’s use an average of 11 times more water than the rest of the world. They also mentioned that water is also one of those things that not many ppl consiously conserve. Many North American’s claim to be ‘green’, however, water is one aspect where most ‘greens’ are not green! Islamically speaking as well, we’ve been told not to waste water even if we are sitting by the river. This month, I want to inculcate the habit of shutting off the tap while toothbrushing, shampoo-ing and soaping; and not let the water run for more than 10 minutes in total while i shower (yes i know ten sounds too low, but the ideal is 6 mins!!). I also want to try and not use the dishwasher at all this month (so far so good, alhamdolillah!). I’ll keep you guys updated on how it goes. And if you guys already consciously conserve water, plz share where and how else we can cut down on water consumption in our homes.
As for my organized living project…. Well, sadly it will have to be my bedroom coz of my desk again. I didn’t get around to it last month. Altho i did manage to reduce clutter on it, i have a LONG way to go. I was amused to find a spare toothbrush, a fork, spilt over glue and what not during my last attempt at cleaning it. Since we dont have a pc, our desk collected junk really fast and now its one of those things bequesting me to come and clean it – but looking at it sores my eyes so much, I’d rather just ignore it and work on something else.
Btw, I finally managed to take pictures (AND download them off the camera) from Eesa’s room (I finally got around to putting his stuff up last month) but I’m using Imo’s laptop so I’ll put them up when I use mine. (they’re already on facebook tho:P)
Sorry I’ve been all over the place in this blog. I’ve been trying to play catch up for the last two weeks. There’s sooo many things that have happened but I dont want to go over them right now. So lastly, here’s my MPM for the week. I haven’t been modifying my breakfast and lunch too much since this current set up works out for me as a guideline for Eesa and if he isn’t in the mood for what’s planned, I switch to something else thats avlbl:
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Weekly |
Menu | |||
| Breakfast | Lunch | Snack | Dinner | |
| Monday(Decluttering) | Oatmeal muffinsPB Quesadillas1 cup OJ |
Egg mc muffin Sliced fruits1 cup Milk |
1 cup fruit yoghurt | Rice, daal and Salan |
| Tuesday(Dusting and ironing) | Fried eggRoti1 cup OJ |
Toast pizzas Fruits1 cup milk |
Moms(doctors apptmt) | Moms |
| Wednesday(vacuuming) | Cereal with milk | Moms(jj’s surgery) | Moms | Moms |
| Thursday(Scrubbing) | Spinach frittatasMilk |
Rice and karhi 1 cup apple juice |
Cheerios1 cup OJ |
NM Burritos, cream of mushroom Mango Milkshake |
| Friday(Organizing and Rearranging) | Rice crispies with strawberries |
Left over burritos |
Crackers and cheese |
beef chili, gb 1 cup milk |
| Saturday(Laundering) |
Omelettes muffins |
chicken cutlets |
Yoghurt sticks | MCI reunion |
International Womyn’s day.. March 9, 2008
Wishing you all a very happy International Womyn’s day.
Please remember to take a moment to celebrate the bold achievements made by diverse womyn across the globe - past and present. Womyn who endured. Womyn who died. Womyn who fought. Womyn who challenged. Womyn who initiated. Womyn who ended.
Above all, womyn because whom we enjoy the minutest of liberties possible today. Liberties – some that were ours through our religion, others through culture. Yet, snatched away in the very name of religion and culture as well.
Let us promise to end violence against womyn everywhere. It is a crime and let us not make excuses for it anymore.
I wish you all a year of success, empowerment and enrichment in your roles as mothers, daughters, wives, sisters and more! I pray that you succeed and continue to make a change towards a positive change for tommorow’s womyn!
Poop a loop.. March 6, 2008
Yeah we’re a lil weird in this family. Poop really fascinates us. lemme reiterate that. Poop REALLY fascinates us! So yeah, imo and i burst out into fits of laughter every time we hear this!
chk this out:
Joys of parenting.. March 4, 2008
Hana’s been crying endlessly today. She’s been wanting to poop and nothing seems to help. She’s cried so much today that it became background music (hard rock, nothing less ofcourse!).
Suddenly, three minutes ago, she became quiet and then …. she let it all out. Loudly!
It was such a relief to see her do so, Imran and I actually gave each other a hug! It felt like a moment to celebrate!
Amazing how parenting can make you appreciate (and celebrate!) simple things like poop!
One of those mommy days.. March 4, 2008
Yesterday was one of ‘those’ days for me. After having spent an entire week with the kids alone, I was looking forward to Imran’s day off on Monday. Sunday afternoon, as we were coming back from the playgroup, his technician called and said that the Niagara site was having issues and that Imran would have to go down to Niagara on Monday morning.
”four hours max”, he promised as he kissed me goodbye at 6:30 am. I sneaked back into bed hoping to catch up on some precious sleep from the weekend
6:45 am. Eesa wakes up in his crankiest mood possible. Gave him breakfast, showered him and massaged him with baby oil. Still cranky. Doesn’t want to play with toys neither does he want to do his studying. Just wants to whine. (welcome to the club son!)
8:30am Hana wakes up crying like she needs to poop and it aint comin’. eventually I help her and get it all out. She refuses to drink milk and insists on simply crying endlessly.
And that set the tone for the rest of my day. By noon, I had a headache like never before. In the meantime I turned catty and mean (thanks mayg!) and was absolutely curt when my mil called, b*tchy when my friend tried to help me and absolutely over the top @%^&$&!! when hubby called to say he would be another 6 hours at the least. I unloaded all my stress onto a friend and then had nothing left to say to hubby when he got home(at 8 pm!), apart from putting the plate in front of him with a thudding emphasis and snapping at him for every word he said.
This morning, I still feel gross, whiny and catty. Poor hubby is hiding upstairs with the kids, trying to keep them out of my way. lol. I have the tune of ‘don’t talk to me argentina’ by maddonna humming in my head. Shaitaan is probably having a healthy feast and I feel like an @$$ for not doing anything about it.
Moral of the story? I don’t know! I think I just needed to vent some more before I actually got around to making a positive change to my mood.
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