If I Had Fairy Godparents.

Little 7aki: I wish I had fairy Godparents. Me: Why? Little 7aki: So I can wish for anything and it would come true. Me: What would you wish for first? (I asked while waiting to see what toy she wants). Little 7aki: I would wish that Daddy stops smoking. Me (stunned) : Wow! What else [...]

Advice I Am Going to Give Little 7aki On Her 5th Birthday

“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’” -Sam Levenson

An “I Wish The Earth Could Open and Swallow Me” Moment

I really wished that would happen, I was even imagining it: Maybe I can melt? Maybe I can become invisible? It was an OMG I wish the earth would just open , right here, right now and swallow me moment. Little 7aki is turning five soon , oh how time flies, so we are busy [...]

Baby Food Tastes SOOOOOOOOO Good!

Honest to God baby food tastes soooooo good. I have been steaming veggies for peanut and adding nothing to them, just steaming them and then blending them, with a hand blender, speaking of hand blenders: I want to hug , kiss, marry and worship whoever invented them. Hand blender creator inventor, will you marry me? [...]

On Being Busy

The eternal argument between women who stay at home and women who work is who’s busier and who does more work the woman that balances family and career or the  woman who chose her family as a career. To be honest, now that I am staying at home for a year it feels I am much busier [...]

Will Goodness Win?

Goodness [good-nis] : integrity, honesty, uprightness, probity. Goodness, morality, virtue refer to qualities of character or conduct that entitle the possessor to approval and esteem. Goodness is the simple word for the general quality recognized in character or conduct I was reading “The lion, the witch and the wardrobe”  to little 7aki the other day. [...]

Behold…

…. the gums.

What Your Child Should Be Reading: Part 1

I LOVE children’s books. Even before I had my little 7aki I was drawn to these books and I loved reading them. Here are some of my favorite children’s books in no particular order. They are for different ages, from toddler to Teenager. 1) Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. Such [...]

Little 7aki Mistifies Me!

Little 7aki LOVES to eat the following: 1) Shrimp. Yes, shrimp. She would eat pounds of it if I let her. 2) Spinach. Which some adults don’ t even want to smell. 3) Brie cheese. Like , helloooooooo, who LIKES Brie cheese? Most people hate it. ( I love it) 4) Ask her what’s your [...]

Déjà vu

Who Would have thought the 7aki household would have another eggsplosion. You need proof? You can’t handle the proof. HAHAHAHAHAHA Baba 7aki is HILARIOUS. And yup, he had to clean it up. Since this is a regular occurrence at the 7aki household I created a blog category for it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Four

Peanut turned 4 months a couple of days ago. Oh my how time flies! She can grab things now with her little tiny hands and guide them to her mouth. She can squeal and kick her feet with excitement. She still drools like it’s her bidness (for real she drools a lot, like A LOT). [...]

Eight

I can’t believe it has been 8 years since Baba 7aki and I got married! Yesterday we celebrated our 8th year anniversary with a nice simple quiet dinner kid free, we decided that this year will be celebrated simply with no gifts or nothing. Ok that is a lie, both of me AND baba 7aki [...]

Little 7aki told a joke that was actually funny!!!

Little 7aki (using my headphones that have a mic attached to them) : pkhhhh pshhhhhhht pkhhhh pshhhhhy , Major Major come in. Me (pretending my phone was a walkie talkie ): Yes Commander I hear you Little 7aki: Major Major can you hear me? Me: I can hear you come in. Little 7aki: I have [...]

Ten Reasons ….

…. to why I love 7aki peanut , I mean bateekha. Biddi akolhom AKEL I want to eat them up . nom nom nom

A Conversation With My Mother In Law

MIL : I don’t know what’s wrong with this generation of girls, you get your husbands to help you with everything. When I was married and your age I had no help from anyone, I had 4 boys and your father in law would leave me all alone to take care of them while he [...]

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