Umrah

Mama and Papa left a couple of days before puasa and will only be coming back on the 4th day of Eid.



Mak left on the 1st of Ramadhan and would only be coming back on 1st of Syawal.

Semoga mereka diberikan kesihatan dan kekuatan dan dapat menjalani ibadah dengan sempurna. Amin.

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4 days into Ramadhan

and everyone at home is sick!

the weather, lack of fluids is probably getting to us. Not that Jannah is fasting. Haha! But she is down with fever now. Kesian sangat budak yang selalu ceria tu lembik je.

Alhamdulillah I have been able to fast, so far. Hopefully will still be able to do so for the coming 25 days insyaAllah. I am taking it one day at a time..

I am also now in Week 20! Oh man.. suddenly it feels as though time moves on too fast. 

Aliah has been doing good so far too. Walaupun banyak la whining towards the last hour tuh, but she's gotten through. 1st day je kantoi. Tengok mood makan dia masa iftaar, mmg senyum je la. She will line up all the things she wants to eat in front of her and will proceed to eat it all one by one. Pastu terbontang. Haha!

I pray that our Ramadhan will be smooth sailing till the end. Amin!

When it rains..

(title tiada kena mengena dengan entry)

There are as usual lots to tell, and so little time to do so. I was away for a couple of days last week, travelling up north as per the requirements of my work. Decided to take the flight this time as I didn't think I could cope with driving all over the place. As it was, even that was too tiring for my liking. I didn't get enough sleep - not for the lack of trying I can assure you, I had seasickness which didn't help matters and I just simply missed Hubby and the kids. (me n Hubby adjusted our outstation route so that one of us could be home with the kids and as a result we didn't get to see each other for 2 whole weeks!)

Before I left, Aliah had her placement test for Sri.Ayesha. We thought we were there early, as it turns out there where a whole lot of other kiasu parents too. Haha! She did well though, Alhamdulillah getting good marks in all the areas of the test - Oral (BM, English, Arabic), Practical Life (Solat & Montessori) and a perfect score for her Written exam.

I realised I haven't given much updates on Little Baby. I guess it feels like everything is on a repeat mode. Except for the fact that I am hungrier this time, I have gained more weight too comparatively and non of my normal clothes fit me anymore. Haha! After all I am already halfway through this pregnancy. 19 weeks and counting. I started feeling his/her movements back in Week 17 and got a bit paranoid when I didn't feel movements. :P

I did check out the Parenthood Expo just for the sake of taking stock on what had changed in the last 4 years (of being pregnant that is) and realised that there is not much prep for me to do. Having said that, I still need to start getting all the baby stuff out and do an inventory. Oh, but so malas!

Ramadhan is fast approaching and I am apprehensive about whether I can last. I guess we will have to just take it a day at a time..

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Kiasu-ism Proven

Aliah brought back her report card 2 days ago, and the first thing I did was to freak out! 

Haha.. Sungguh la kiasu Mommy ini.

Bukannya nak be proud that she did get 3 100% and a 98%. Yang dapat 84% and 86% tu laaa yang aku bisingkan jugak. Haish...

In my defence, I know that she can get better results and was proven bila tengok her Science paper all her 8 mistakes were carelessness. Adoi laaa..

Kesian dia. She was expecting it though (kena marah that is). Before tido malam tu, she told me "I promise I'll do better next time Mommy" .. Terus Mommy yang rasa guilty pulak. 

In return, Mommy pulak dah kena sound dengan the Papa for being too harsh on Aliah. Hehehe.. I know I need to chill it. She is just 6, and a screwed up Science paper does not make or break her. But still... 

And thus, this has made me more determined to be a SAHM as soon as possible. 

The End

Something happened last week that really bugged me. Or more to the point, pissed me off. Actually, I was extremely angry. With the maid that is. The story goes like this,

I came back from work and it was a really tiring day to be greeted by a really sad sulking Aliah.

It took some coaxing before she told me what her problem was. Or rather showed to me with actions. A rocket launching, hitting the earth (or our home to be exact) and boom everyone dies. Shocked was too mild of a word for me at that point.

"Where did you get that idea Kakak?"

Instead of answering my question, she asked one of her own.

"Mommy, how old will Little Baby be in the year 2013?"

"Little Baby will be 1 plus"

"But he will still be so small... " And she started to cry. 

(note : Aliah wants the baby to be a boy, thus referring to it as "he" most of the time)

"Nanti siapa nak selamatkan baby?"

Apparently Anik was talking to her about doom's day earlier and speculated something about it happening in the year 2013. 

Mommy terus naik hangin la kan, haperhal pulak ni pegi citer merapu dekat anak aku ni!

But my main concern at that point was to calm down an extremely distraught 6 year old.

So I told her, as simple as I could that Qiamat is something which we all as Muslims should believe in because it will happen. (she's learnt the Rukun Iman in school, so it was easier to relate that back to her) And I told her that only Allah knows when it will happen whether it would be in 2013 or some other year. What we can do is to pray and doa that we would all be kept safe and would be together in syurga. And that's why she needs to be a good Muslimah. 

It took a while for her to calm down. Meanwhile, si Adik yang cheeky ni dah datang buat lawak nak try pujuk Kakak dia yang tengah nangis tu. Hehehe..

After she calmed down, she said to me,

"Mommy, cepat mandi. Jom kita solat."

Subhanallah.. my daughter is amazing. :)

[Hubby talked to Anik about it - as I was really still not in the right mind frame to be talking to her; honestly I would have been really angry still and said something I would regret. In her defence, Anik said she was talking about the tsunami alert which she heard from her relatives in Jakarta. Itu pun satu hal jugak, panik tak bertempat la .. the alert was in NZ for goodness sake! Anyway, Hubby told her not to talk about stuff like that with the girls]

This has actually made me have another one of my wishful SAHM moments again. I want to be there for the kids IQ & EQ development.. I need to be there.. InsyaAllah one fine day soon..