Flu!!

Well when your guard is down you dont have any strength to ward off anything.I am the kind of person who alhamdulillah gets a cold every three four years ,its stays on for two days and I shoo it away by ,being positive sickness cannot prevail.
This time around I was caught off guard,and I actually let my negative feelings get the best of me and here I am for the second week feeling really lousy and ill,from fever to bone-aches and now this terrible terrible cough.Its awful to feel weak and its worse to feel helpless,of course in illness,you know your real worth,but also alhamdulillah it is counted against your bad account quota.It goes like this any sickness or pain you feel you are getting rid of a lot of bad marks you got from bad conduct some time ago.
So here I am sipping my cinnamon tea (for cleansing the throat)and writing about my pain...If I were you I would've signed a comment saying: come on lady wakey wakey ,life is good stop seeing the negative things,we need to read some fresh new ideas to help us get along in life!!!

So I give you this beautiful scene of the sea as a compensation sorry all!!

My colour is.....surprised!!

BLUE

You give your love and friendship unconditionally. You enjoy long, thoughtful conversations rich in philosophy and spirituality. You are very loyal and intuitive.

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On a more happier note....

I have decided to make a blog about my grandkids first words and first everything in fact..of ourse I had to get the help of their parents and aunties to collec these first words....
I think maybe in a couple of years they can enjoy reading the blog with me and laugh at their own attempts to label things :)

Last chance!!

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here!!

Nice song,nice lyrics too....very apropriate for my new post too!!
Well,here it is:
You know how you always get new chances to renew and re-inforce your relations with your relatives.
Well, there was this lady in the land of far far away,she had beautiful grandchildren whom she never really cared about,,they never had the chance to feel her care and love,and they grew up really missing on her kindness and care.
The days passed and the chance came again for her to show some care and love to those same grandchildren.now grown and with children themselves....but noooo she still couldn't take all that love and nurture it she started trying to get rid of the only reunion left for the family ,her being the eldest mother in the family.
End of story...enter dragon...exit great-grandma!!

Relationships

Friends..and close relatives,not close as regards to nearest of kin but close in feelings and special treatment.
I have had many friends and many of them were relatives,sometimes we take things for granted but the worse is when we,ourselves are taken for granted by others we have special ties to.
You do good things,you go the extra mile for these poeple,they also do good things and stand by you in your troubled times,I'm a fair person and I always admit the good that has been done to me.
One day you notice that it was really one-sided and they were only returning favor for favor,but nothing really genuine.You spill your feelings all over,you do things out of love,but from the other side its just return (tit for tat).
What happened to me this month really threw me off balance,one of my closest and best friends(so I thought)and one of my closest relatives(again so I thought)both chose this month to reveal what their insides were made of,I mean how much could a person take??
Since I am the kind of person who feels strongly about people and relations ,to see what the way people acted towards me , was just a real bummer.

Engagement...

MY neighbor invited me to her son's engagement,it was so nice to meet old aquaintances some I haven't seen for over a year.
The mother of the groom was happier than the mother of the bride I know both ladies ,but the groom's mom lives across from my home.We have known each other for more than 20 years,she is the sweetest good-hearted person you can imagine.

The sisters of the groom were ravishingly beautiful with their special dresses,two of these girls were born and grew up in this community and they are like daughters to me.
I am so happy for her,I hope the wedding goes as well too.

Graduation...

At last my son graduated with a Bsc. in Marketing management,he never wanted to really study his always wanted to work and he always fancied having some trade.Well,now he can have both inshallah.
He already has two beautiful sons,one four and one two,so he really has a handful!!

His wife made a small party at home and we all had so much fun,above all I was really happy he got over with it all.
This was the graduation cake it was an ice-cream cake,the heat was scorching that day ,so the ice cream cake was very welcome :)



These are the cute graduates my daughter-in-law made to decorate the table:

Trip to Al-ahsaa

We went on a trip to Al-Ahsaa region this weekend and it started well and ended in disaster....we had a kind of mis-understanding...you see we got lost in the Eastern villages and kept going in circles for hours and do we stop to get directions???Nooooooooo,we just kept on going in circles and the weather was really hot,but in the end we managed to find our way out of the maze of small palm-fringed villages,and reached civilisation!!



We really wanted to do some shopping but the shops weren't open and it was already 9:30 AM so I asked to go see the mount of Gara,AlAhsaa's known tourist attraction,and that is where disaster struck!!We took one small wrong turn and ended up in the villages where there were no signs whatsoever!



Even when we came back to town most of the shops were ready to close for the afternoon prayer,but do you knnow what,I noticed that many didn't open anyway...well I know why,it was the heat,probably they don't open till evening when the weather is cool.

My daughter's baby shower

MY niece organised this sweet baby shower and she has actually taken care of everything,all I had to do was participate in the games and fun and make the arabic coffee.She even had gifts for the contests and really organised the most beautiful party, we all had loads of fun....especially me on account I was depressed.You can see here the assorted nuts she put in baby bottles for our non-participants to munch on until their turn came!!
The worst part though was when it was my turn to drink water form a baby's bottle to the amazement of my grandbabies....they kept staring at me and ask me what are you doing grandma?what are you doing??...a bit humilating....Then we made them drink water from the baby's bottles too,so there,we were all equal!!







These are two of the happy participants they had their own contests and fun in putting all their efforts in disarranging everything my niece was arranging on the table!!





These are the party favors my niece gave out,she made everything herself mashallah!!