Jan 16, 2023 Monday

Hi Readers

Salam Alaikum

Today is a busy day. I haven’t called it a day yet. Ali and Sheharbano had blocked noses last night. Gave them antihistamine. It worked. The strange acne ob Sheharbano s face isn’t settling yet. She is too young for acne. I have started applying antibiotic cream. Hope it works.

Teaching today was extra strenuous. Ali was not cooperating as much as he did. Got to start preparing for their final Urdu exam as soon as possible. I am really thankful to Allah that he has given me strength to teach. He has given me the skill of teaching. I feel the purpose of my life is to teach. It makes me feel good. I have taught most of my life.

Today again I requested Allah to forgive me for getting myself ligated. May Allah forgive me. In the beginning of the year I made a resolution that I would walk daily. I asked Allah to help me keep the routine, to give me strength. He is helping me.

Fatima

Wisest and the most peace loving leader who made Oman a perfectly peaceful and modern state. Will be missed.

1 January 2020

Dear Friends

I was out in the park for an evening walk. Right after sunset the park has all those people who spent the day sitting behind their desks. I was time for them to stretch their muscles. and their were women who were fortunate enough to have spent their day in front of TVs or mobiles and wanted to burn some calories. And their were people like me who inspite of the cleaning, washing and cooking. wanted some pounds off for the heck of it.

In that busy scene of everybody walking past each other, entered a man who seemed to be in no hurry. He had a plastic bag with edibles in it for the park cat ran towards him and started meowing. The man , most probably a manual worker for he had a very lean body and was wearing a dress that was reflective of his  social class. Well, he sat right in the middle of the park, opened his eatables, with cat watching him closely, and started eating them. We were all revolving around him and he was indeed enjoying those revolutions.

He had his supper with the cat. He and cat perhaps are old buddies. He got up , gathered the leftovers, tucked them in the plastic bag, dumped it carefully in the dustbin.He is a law abiding citizen. The people of his socail class back in his country of origin would never do that. What made him a law abiding citizen after he moved in this country for earning money.

The law?

The good examples around? or

Just the presence of a dustbin at a convenient distance?

 

 

 

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27 April 2013

How to save my toddlers from screen addiction? I tried to address this problem today. It was like climbing Mount Everest. My four year old Maryam was throwing tantrums every other minute. So I decided to cook for her Halwa (a sweet dish) with puri (a traditional bread). Not only Maryam, Ali and Sheharbano liked but also Aamna my daughter of Season 1. I believe I must tell you about the two seasons of children we have. Well we have four children who range from 18 years to 11 years and the season two. Maryam, four is the eldest and then two younger. So as my husband calls me I am “The MOM”.

Coming back to screen addiction, after the supper when season 2 and Aamna had had halwa and puri, it was sort of resuming for Maryam, the most obstinate of both the seasons. Back to tantrums and I had to hit her a bit and then was sent to the bed, where she kept sobbing for almost almost two hours and finally went to sleep. While she was registering her protest, Ali the copy cat started throwing tantrums in much the similar manner which really surprised me. So he was dealt with but it was easier.

Eldest one Muhammad has SAT1 after a week and he is behaving like a KURAK hen (a hen  when she is in a bad temper). So today he woke me up in the middle of a deep afternoon nap and asked money for ice-cream. Very annoying!

Hussain 15, is facing hormonal changes as do all children at the commencement of puberty. Is sad and depressed most of the time. Since he loves to dress himself in clothes of different cultures, so yesterday he wanted an Arabic kandura (which is quite a waste of money as it not worn anywhere except at home when he is catwalking). I listened to his babbling most of the day.

Khadija behaved well and helped me today. She is my 13 year old daughter who helps me the most. Aamna is eating a lot and gaining a lot of weight , quite alarming for me although my hubby insists she is not fat. She ate a lot of halwa as I told u earlier and also almost all the dumplings brought by our neighbour. Our neighbour took Sheharbano to her home. Our neighbour is also a mother of seven and she and I behave quite the same most of the time. Sheharbano started crying wildly at her home and was brought back immediately. Thats all for today folks.