Fabrications

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves – our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. Now that I’ve been one myself, I know. Margarete Atwood The Blind Assassin I [...]

A Mystery That Will Never Be Solved

This mystery has been plaguing me since I got married. Well you see, before I got married I never did any laundry so I didn’t even know that this problem existed. The mystery of the disappearing socks. Seriously. When I collect the laundry MYSELF and wash it MYSELF and then dry it MYSELF  why is [...]

Goodbye

A beautiful soul has passed away away from fear, away from pain A beautiful soul left love behind for us to hold, for us to find A beautiful soul that made us smile gave us love for life all of the time A beautiful soul, she will be missed as our souls, they were touched [...]

Either Nothing or All

Peanut never seizes to amaze me. At 8 months she was clearly behind on her milestones, no crawling, no standing, no rolling over (that really concerned me, until the doctor told me she was too fat to roll over, HAHAHAHAHA), no teeth. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. And then when she hit 8.5 months she: 1) Turned [...]

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 [...]

The Day I Lost My Voice, My Eyeballs Melted and I Went Blind

Not figuratively but literally. I have been fighting a cold for the last week. Usually this kind of cold would be like NOTHING but because I am the sole nourishment source for one kid and the sole entertainment source for the other it left me spent. After I started feeling better yesterday , kablaaaaaaaam,  I lost [...]

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. [...]

Why? Some Pointless Questions

1) When we store eggs why do we have to put the pointy side down? 2) How are diapers made? And what’s that super absorbent gel? 3) Why does baby breath smell soooo good? I swear it smells like vanilla or like sweetness and yummyness. I think we should bottle that smell, it could make [...]

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 [...]

The Waiting Place

You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and going on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The waiting place… … for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, [...]

7aki Fadi has Tagged 7aki Fadi: The Bag Tag

This is an old old tag that I tagged myself with, yeah, it seems that tags are kind of dead. But I am soooooooo bored that I decided to do this tag after seeing it at Roba’s and Hal’s blogs sooo long ago I can’t even find them to link them. So here goes: 1) [...]

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). [...]

Why Kids These Days Think They Had It Hard

So yesterday I got this email and I posted it here (You have to read this first before you read this post), then one of the guys who got the email wrote this, and I was laughing soooo hard it is soooooooo funny: Whatever, that’s nothing! When I was young, I had to bend behind the computer [...]

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 [...]

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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