The past few days...

Oct/31: it was Halloween. Kareem’s school had a Halloween party for the kids so I took two hours off of work and went to be with him, since dad is not here and I didn’t want him to feel alone seeing all the kids with their parents.
Nov/2: Kareem’s Birthday. I took him after work to pick up a gift and he chose Iron Man. We successfully made the transfer form spider man to iron man :D
Nov/3: left work early went to wal-mart and bought Kareem cup-cakes to celebrate with his classmates. It was nice and he was SO happy.
Nov/5: my best girl friend Reham came for a visit in the evening with her kids which are the same age as mine. I bought cookie cake – YUM—and we celebrated Kareem’s birthday one more time. He felt so special :)
Nov/7: I was invited for breakfast at one of my girl friends’ house. It was lovely feminine get-together and food was out of this world.
In between these days all I had was work, gym, kids, arguments with my two-teenage daughters, trying to keep my life organized and keep up with due times and dates…isn’t that fun!! How was your past few days…!

I’ll leave you with some pictures :)

Kareem sleeping with his new toys :)

Zuzu at the Halloween party

in the kitchen while I was backing cookies

My big Guy

The 2ns B-day party at home with our friends

The cookies cake (I don't know why it wouldn't rotate)

The cookies I baked

Love ~

Cravings

Good morning,

I am at work and can't open my eyes :( Kareem woke me up last night at 5am. He wanted a drink of water and a bathroom visit. I didn't go to bed after that and so I started up my day early. I loaded the washer, folded my laundry, and prayed Fajer. I miss my morning coffee :(
Just for my bad luck and ultimate torture, my colleagues brought donuts and chocolate chip cookies to the office today, can you believe it?!
                                     
                     I heart coffee and donuts, I really do !!

I need one of these ;)

Here are some pics for Zuzu and Kareem that I took over the weekend.

                                      

Love

Koshari

Today I cooked an Egyptian dish called Koshari. I got the recipe from my good friend Suzan. It turned out very delicious; Husam and the kids loved it. Thanks Suzan and looking forward to more recipes. Since I now can upload pictures here is how my dish turned out.

My brother Fadi who lives in Kuwait called this evening and he told me that he reserved two tickets and hotel reservation for me and Husam as a gift to go visit Dubai :) We will go in April during the Easter break. I am SO excited, can’t wait for April to come. Thanks Fadi, I love you.
I have a busy schedule tomorrow. First, I have to drop Husam and the kids and then a meeting with the girls’ school Principal Mr. Vessle, to tell him about the girls’ early leave. After that I am going to visit my good friend Loodi. This will be the best part of my day. She is a very nice lady from Syria married to Jordanian guy who is a professor with Husam. She is very cheerful and take-it-easy kind of person. I like to be around such people because they keep reminding me that life is easy.

I did an extra ordinary job today posting twice ;) I loved it especially that now I can upload pictures so I will go back to all my previous posts where I promised to post pics and I’ll have them there, how about that!!

Good night

B-day Girl..

The 4th of this month was Nour’s birthday. She turned 13. She requested to invite 6 if her friends over for a small party and for me, Husam, Zayna, and Kareem to leave the house and leave her, her sister and both of their friends to party, and off we went. The menu that she wanted was: Pizza (I made margarita and chicken), hotdogs, chicken nuggets, chips, and cake.

Since we were kicked out of the house, we took the little ones to a park in Jounieh. I also asked Husam to drive me to a shopping area called Kaslik so I can look for a black long cardigan. I bought a very cute shirt with lots and lots sequins from Zara but I need to wear something over it to cover up the arms. I went to Bershka since I saw something similar to what I was looking for but the fabric was so thin that you can see through it. I have to go for another look-up trip to find my request. I am thinking H&M might have what I am looking for which means a trip to Beirut …YAY.
Again for the 576 time, I will try to upload pics from Nour’s b-day and I really really hope that it’ll work this time.
Later….

IT WORKED :)))