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Friday’s Five: A Legacy of Women

This is a very personal post.  I have chosen to talk about the most amazing women that I have come to learn from and love very much in my family.  The women in my family from both my maternal and paternal side are exceptional.  They are strong in spirit and are a treasure trove of [...]

Questions to Ask Your Mother

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My mother when asked some of these questions, she usually shrugs and says “I can’t remember”.

How did you feel when you first got married?
What was your first year of marriage like?
How did you feel when you first found out you were pregnant?
How did you feel when you held me for the first [...]

How well do you know your family, how to find out more?

Family

How well do you know your great grandparents,  grandparents, aunts and uncles?  Here are some questions from About’s 50 Questions for Family History Interview.   I love asking the older people in my family lots of questions but I had never thought of some of these.  They would be fun conversation starters and a way [...]

Go make your phone calls

It’s wa2fet 3arafa. Kol sana wento tayebeen.  Has anyone watched the TV broadcast of the day?  When I was younger I used to love watching them broadcast it.  Something magican about watching millions of people all dressed in white, comming from all over the world, with only one intention; to perform Hajj.  Anyways, I still [...]

The Uno

Fiat Uno

The Uno was our first car, I say our because it is too embarassing to say my younger sister’s first car.  When my mother first said she was going to buy us a car we tried to talk her out of it, we didn’t want her to over extend herself financially.  She didn’t [...]

Things to do in Kuwait

More than a year ago, when I moved to Kuwait, I wondered what could be done in Kuwait.  Last week my mother and sister were visiting for Eid and we discovered lots of interesting things that could be done.  Needless to say these activities were so much more fun because they were with me but [...]