A quick Hello...

I just realized that the last post on my blog is a sad blog....we must change that now...

Hmmmm nothing happy to post about...just normal everyday stuff...

It is winter and yucky...thankfully no snow..the last of it melted yesterday...thank you rain!!

The kids are on vacation and so is hubby!! He has been on vacation (parental leave) for almost 3wks!!! Somebody kill me!! I can not wait for January 4th to come!! My house is in dire need of ta3zeel...the closets are a mess, my laundry room is a mess...I need a break from the 3 of them!

My baby brother just got married a week ago!! When did he grow up?? It was a very nice wedding, everyone had a great time...we danced and danced and danced some more...but I am glad it is all over...it is a lot of work getting ready for a wedding. A dress for me, shoes, makeup blah blah blah.. suites for the boys...the baby looked soo cute in his little suite...adorable! Ziad was the ring boy and has a new girlfriend, the little flower girl.

Tamer will be one next month, he is starting to walk, but still has not mastered it, he still prefers to crawl. He is always yelling out his brothers' names laal, thiaad....he is so cute and we are having so much fun watching him learn new things! He makes my kitchen floor a huge mess though, he takes everything out of the cupboard and throws them on the floor, I clean it all up and he does it over again , and again and again...phew..no wonder I am pooped by the end of the day!

Today hubby and the boys went to the March for Gaza in Toronto. When I mentioned it this morning the boys got all excited. They got their pencil cases, paper, and started drawing the Palestinian flag.They put them on a pole and got ready to go. I had a nice relaxing day home with the baby...aaah..when is Jan 4th coming??

Ha, that wasn't quick, was it ??? The kids are playing with their DSs, the baby is killing the kitchen floor and hubby is watching some movie...I was left alone for few minutes...but not anymore...aaaaaaahhh leave me alone!

Ena Lelah wa Ina Elayhi Raje3oon

Early this morning my mother in law passed away:o(

She has been in a coma since last Friday, so we kinda of had a week to prepare for this....but you can never be prepared for a loved one dying...

I am just glad my husband went to Amman to see her when we heard the news. Everyone told him to stay put and not to go , it is useless...she is a coma, what is the point...but he got to spend some time with her...see her, touch her, talk to her, kiss her...I am so glad he did not listen and I was able to convince him to leave as soon as we got the news...

I am just so sad that I will never see her again....baby Tamer will never know his teta, and she never got to see Ziad (her favourite grandson) again...Bilal will never really know her, since last time he saw her he was only 3...I wish we were able to go to Amman this past summer...but my husband started a new job in May, and he could not take time off, and I could not travel alone with 3 kids including a little baby...:o(

May she rest in peace inshallah....at least now she will not be in any pain...something that she has lived with constantly for the past few years....Allah yer7amik khalto! :o(

The End of summer...

My poor poor blog!! I have no time for it....*cleaning the spider webs around*

Speaking of spiders, a spider is take over my porch!! Everyday I go out with a broom and clean his web, the next day I find a bigger one!!! This spider is driving me crazy! He is on the biggish side, brown and he is living between the porch bricks!! He is outside so I feel like a bad person killing him.....u know I have to be a friend of nature..blah blah..

So many bloggable things have happened in the past 2 months since I last posted...

We did so much this summer, lots of visits to Marine land, Ontario place, parks.. etc...

We went to Quebec City for few days, it is always fun going there...it was a 12hrs drive...we had a great time!! now I know why I have to get a van!! My kids fight like crazy while in the car!! I am getting a van in the next couple of weeks!! I am getting the longest van I can find, one of the kids will be at the very end of the van and one in the front...they are currently fighting about who will be in the front and who will be at the back..

My little baby is growing up so fast! He is 8 months now...he has been crawling and cruising for the past two months....I hope he will hold off walking until he is 1...

Three weeks little Tamer got very sick and we had to deal with a 7mara(idiot) ER doctor, and then spent few days at the sick kids hospital in Hamilton...not a very good experience...I will post about this ordeal in another post...he is all better now alhamdoulilah..but his horrible experience changed him from a nice mild baby to a whinny screaming baby!!

We found a family of Mice living in our garage, which prompted us to clean out the garage, and just to be on the safe side cleaning out the basement(there were no mice inside the house) I went through every single box, cleaned it good and got rid of boxes and boxes and garbage bags of stuff we no longer need! I can no longer watch Tom and Jerry! I used to live Jerry , but now Tom is my favourite, bad bad mice!!

I got stung by a bee the other day...I think it was a bee ...it hurt like hell!! I had no idea a little thing's sting can hurt so much...I thought my whole arm was going to fall off!! My finger swelled up,and then my whole arm started to hurt... it was no fun!! We were getting ready to go to Marine Land...I put my stuff in the passenger seat and threw my keys in there..I went to grab my key and something was on them and stung me..I think it was a bee..or maybe the spider that has overtake my porch...I was in so much pain, just flung the thing off my finger without looking at it. I drove to ML because it was the last day before school and the kids were all excited about going there with their cousins...so I could not let a bee sting keep us home...I had to break my fast while driving to take some advil because the pain was too much...:o( I hate bees, or maybe it was a wasp?

Now finally the kids are back to school...Ziad just started grade 3, Bilal will be starting SK next Friday and he is going to preschool two days a week....finally my vacation has started!! I have yelled at the kids so much in the past month, they fight so much!! They fight over everything, a toy can be sitting for months without anyone touching it, the minute one goes to play with it the other wants it!! I am sure I have gotten few white hairs this past month!! O and ziad started with this "I am bored" bit..We go to the park, come back home and within 5 minutes he is bored!! ah it is all over now , I think my new favourite seasons are going to be fall, winter and spring!!

Good morning....

Ah it is so nice to wake up so early....it is 5:37am now on Sunday morning...and it is so peaceful!!

I can not remember when I heard a big fat nothing except for the sound of the my typing and the ticking clock...with all the chaos in this house I've never noticed the ticking clock...tick tick tick....

This experience would be so much better if my house was not a mess! darn it didn't I tidy up the downstairs rooms before going out for the day yesterday?? How did my kids(and hubby of course) manage to make this small mess??? Crayons and paper on the table...their little Diego and pooh bear chairs are not where they are supposed to be...the sofa cushions are all over the place..the DS's and their cases are both sitting on the sofas and there is a clipboard with a safety scissor sitting on the chair...o and is that hubby's chips bag I see on the table? There are three pennies sitting on the floor...those are Bilal's brown money..why are they not in his piggy bank? Seriously I would love to tidy up this house and have it stay tidy for more than 10 minutes!!

yeh I should definitely do this more often....wake up early...have my morning milk and go to the gym before everyone is up??? I have to switch to a morning person...my kids do not go to bed until 10ish in the summer time.....Bilal will not even put on his PJ's if it is still light outside...and the light starts fading at 9:30...I do not believe I am saying this, but I can not wait for winter when it is dark at 5pm and the kids are in bed by 8:30....but in the summer we are usually hardly ever home before 9...too much to do in the summer months unless it is a rainy day...

I had lots of bloggable stuff happening...but no time to blog...unless I wakeup this early everyday and blog while sipping my morning coffee...:)

hi

I do not believe I have not blogged for this long...I have had so many bloggable thing to talk about..

The baby is growing like a weed and is becoming mobile *insert screaming face*

Bilal had his tonsils out last week...what a champ...he was up and about within few hours, I know if it was me I would have been a big baby...

The kids are almost done with the school year *insert a screaming face*...I am already planning things for them..they will both go to Arabic school in July...Bilal will stay in preschool 2 afternoons a week for July...what am I going to do in August!!!

We will have to get all our summer fun before Ramadan starts...

Is anyone dreading Ramadan this year?? The day is so long!!!! It is still day time at 9:30pm...

The one good thing is that I will lose weight for sure this year...probably lots of it..yay?

I have also been a bad blog checker...I wonder how everyone is doing?? How is 7aki and the girls, how are Qwaiders doing with the pregnancy..how is Maioush's dad doing? Is Asoom engaged yet? How are Kinzi and mamabeans...miss u guys!

But there is no time to blog..and when I do have time I feel guilty that I am not taking the kids out to play, or have to clean the house..does it ever get messy!! Well we just spent an hour in the backyard playing in the water, I helped Bilal with his Lego's and we had a play date with friends today...Tamer is taking a nap, so I can blog with no guilt...

:o)

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!

Happy mothers day to those who celebrate today!

This morning my kids gave me their presents that they made in school..

Bilal had a hand print with a poem...ok seriously those hand print poems are tear jerkers...they always get to me!

Ziad had a pot, paint ,soil and seeds...we decorated the pot and planted the seeds together...I took over the painting and he got mad though...he had a questionnaire and he said he loves me because I do everything for him and let him eat on the sofa...

And I got a gift card for a manicure, pedicure and a facial at a local spa..now I have to find the time to do this...hmmmmmmmmm...

We will be going to my parent's house later...my mom is making a turkey!! I know who the heck cooks on mothers day?? MY MOM DOES...we were planning on taking her out to dinner but I guess not...this is why I did not get her a pampering present...it seems the older generation does not like to be pampered! My parents are redoing their bathroom, so I got her the bathroom stuff...rugs, curtains, decorations...I hope she likes green!

I guess Tamer's present to me is that he let me type this post...with one hand...thank you Tamer!

It is days like this that I like being a mother...and thank god no breakfast in bed..but one day I know my kids will do it and I will get down to a super messy sticky kitchen.

Well I did get bkfast...*sigh* Ziad poured my favourite special K cereal...great right?? noo there was a big hair in it! now I will not be able to eat my cereal for a week! We are going to make pancakes together...hubby is going to hate it...it is unarabic! We will make him labne, zeet w zaatar with shai on fathers day...Hey he can have that today too for breaskfast since he hates pancakes..yeh I know I have a weird husband!

So big already...

Slow down baby!! Stop growing so fast...

He is already 3.5mo...a big little baby. It seems like yesterday that he was born.

He is a great baby so far...cooing and smiling most of the time...but when he cries...watch out..he is LOUD!

He sleeps all night long, but he only sleeps when in bed with me..in his crib he sleeps for a max of 5hr...bad baby! I miss tossing and turning in bed freely! He'd better frow out of this soon or I will turn into a stick!

He is teething already...chewing on everything like crazy...i thought i'd have a normal baby this time, but I guess not! Ziad had his first teeth at 4mo...and Bilal has his first teeth at 10mo. I am going to miss those gummy smiles *sniff, sniff*

Well at least he is not a cat...our cat is only 1yo , she is huge and already a mommy to a huge 5mo old kitten...

Traveling with baby...not so easy!

We have never taken long road trips when our kids were this young. We have taken plane trips when our kids were 3.5mo and up...long road trip when they were at about 10mo.

This weekend we decided instead of staying home on the long weekend, we would go to Montreal. my dear hubby called me on Thursday morning and asked if we felt like going to Montreal's that night...I booked a hotel, it was too late to rent a van, so we took my car... and started packing...four changes of clothes for the older kids, and all like 20 outfits for the baby (babies spit up too much) and other necessities...we wanted to leave that night but decided it is more fun to travel during the day so we left on Friday morning...

Our motto is getting there is half the fun , so we stop whenever we feel like it to get coffee, lunch , snacks...and just walk around..

With a baby you have to stop every 3 hours...at the 3 hrs dot he starts to scream for food...what the hell? So we had to stop a lot more...and sometime we would stop at a place and spend 2hrs there...we feed the baby when we first get there ...then we leave and drive then 1hr later we have to make an emergency stop because he is screaming to eat...no pacifier or singing or anything calms him when he needs food.....and you cant feed him any sooner because he will just spit it all up all over you.....this is why I have to take a lot more clothes for hubby and I...hubby thought it was crazy that I took him 6 shirts for a 2 day stay...now he knows it was not!

It took us a bit over 9hrs to get to Montreal...it usually takes us 6hrs...but it was fun ...we didn't mind it...except for the unexpected stops in the middle of nowhere...

The kids had a good time walking around old Montreal...and we took the horse carriage...it was for $45 for a 20min ride!! When we rode the carriage in Aqaba it was for like 4JD...but the kids loved it and they are still talking about Buddy(the horse) ...we went for lots of walks around the town...it was cold but no body minded it , except now Bilal knows how important his mittens are!

I think I gained 5lb on this trip..I have to make an extra effort to go to the gym daily and to eat well this week...We ate so horrible...too much flafel and shawarma, hamburgers and fries...YUCK! All I am going to eat are veggies this week...I will do what 7aki is doing and make myself baby food...steamed veggies without anything...

Hopefully in few months when we are ready for another road trip ...I think we'll go to PEI next time, the baby will be 5mo and will not need to eat every three hours...or at least able to take a bottle while we are driving...maybe??

OUCHI!!

I have become a major klutz since giving birth, I keep on dropping things and breaking others...

My latest episode was falling down the stairs...I was rushing down, with the baby in my arms, Bilal annoying me to tie a towel around his waist so he can be a cook ...I slipped and fell...OUCH!!

My poor tailbone is bruised...like I really need any more back pains! grrrr.....it hurts to sit...who would of thougth that sitting can be so painful...

Well I guess it could have been worse...it would have been awful if it happened when I was pregnant..so I guess alhmdoullah for everything..

BUT! I was going to start working out this week....I ditched my old gym and joined a new gym...this gym looks so much nicer...it has a pool...a ladies area and a coed...the best thing is I made hubby join hahaha.....and there is a junior gym so Ziad can workout on cool equipment...a dance pad, a playstation that you play while peddaling a bike..yeh good stuff...and the day care for the kids is huge..so the kids will have plenty to do while I am working out...

I bought the cutest workout outfit, new sneakers, new socks, loaded new song on my MP3, and I was ready to start working out 5x a week...and now I can not ...

I guess I am meant to be fat...waaaaaaahhh...

Six weeks....

It has been six weeks since the arrival of our new monster...Ok he is not a monster yet, but it is in the works...or maybe I will be lucky this time around? A good baby who becomes a good toddler??

Tamer is an awesome baby....just like his brothers used to be.

He sleeps few hours during the day....about 6-7hrs at night then wakes up to eat and then goes back to sleep...(I wish I could go back to sleep...but sleeping from 6-8 is the worst..I wake up msatli..) .He only cries when I take too long to fix his bottle, or when he is gassy or sleepy and one of the monsters won't let him sleep because he is so loud...and he is so freakin' cute mashallah!! I can not stop looking at him and holding his tiny teeny hands....I like to hold my babies and do not believe in the spoiling them thing...they are only so small for such a little time...I want to enjoy it...

Now that the baby is here, and the six weeks resting is up , it is time to get into shape!

I am happy to say that I gained 20lb with this baby...14lb are gone and I am left with 6lb to lose...I have been wearing my pre pregnancy clothes since 1 week after giving birth.....even the jeans after getting out of the dryer!! It is nice because with my other pregnancies I had to go out shopping for bigger clothes and did not see my pre pregnancy clothes for a good eight months...

It is time to get back into shape...because yeh I am so out of shape...your body changes a lot during pregnancy...I need to lose lots of inches here and there and get my old shape back..

Exercising is proving to be hard with a new born and a 4yo around! I get Bilal busy with a project, some arts and crafts, or his favourite DVD or a show on demand..and get dressed for my workout...well the minute he sees me working out he decides that I am and the baby are more interesting and he is either in my way, or he is waking his brother up...I will have to restart my gym membership sooner than I thought!

During my pregnancy I lost my appetite...but it seems that the minute the baby popped out my appetite made a grand return! I have been eating like a crazy horse in the past six weeks! My love for chocolate is back!!

I just realized I have not posted in over a month....and it is almost my blog's second bday...I do not have much time anymore...maybe this blog was only meant to live for two years...

Welcome to the world baby....

I feel bad sharing my good news when everyone is upset and angry about what is going on in Gaza...but I did share all my pregnancy up and downs on here..so here goes..

He was born on January 07...one whole week before his due date...you can imagine our surprise since we were sure he will come late just like his brothers..but noooo he had other plans...good thing our cell phones were recharged on that night...and my car filled up with gas...

Everything I have feared about his birth happened...

I was afraid of going into labour on my own for many reasons and was hoping that the doctor would induce labour on the 14th of January...I wanted to be ready, house clean, fridge stocked up, I was worried about going into labour and not knowing it, and I wanted to make sure there is no storm, be at the hospital when it is time to get an epidural, drive my kids to my parent's house in Hamilton and make sure they get there safely...

Well none of this happened...On Monday and Tuesday I was busy going out to get my shopping done, coming home I was too tired to clean my house..so my house was not perfect and tidy...

On Tuesday night I went into labour on my own!!

I went into labour on my own and was not sure I was in labour! At 8pm it started snowing and was supposed to get worse with freezing rain, at 9:30pm I started getting noticeable contractions, they were 11min to 5 min apart then all of the sudden got down to 2min apart.....everyone keeps on telling me when you are in labour you will know ...labour contractions are painful...well I was not in that much pain...some of them I hardly felt and others just needed an aw aw aw....

We decided to head to the hospital, I was sure we will be sent back home...but because of the snow storm they usually keep you there even if in early labour which is what I thought I was in.....so at 12:30am we got the kids up, got our bags in the car, cleared the snow off the car and left ...hubby was to drive me to the hospital which is in town and only 5min away and drive the kids to my parents house which is a 45min drive away, if it was a false alarm we would go pick them up in the morning..but it is better safe than sorry in this weather...

As much as I hate snow, I am glad it was snowing and stormy on Tuesday night...otherwise I would have decided to stay home and wait for painful can not talk, can not breath feel like you are going to die contractions to come.....if I did that I would have had the baby at home! I went to the hospital saying I think I am in labour...well it turned out I was in labour..and not in early labour but in advanced labour...too late for an epidural!! OMG you should have seen me....I was in shock...I needed that epidural...I am too much of a chicken! well too bad for me....

1.5 hrs after getting to the hospital little Tamer was born at 2:04 am...hubby missed the whole thing...it was just me, the doctor and the two nurses...it was pretty cozy actually...the baby was born before hubby even made it to Hamilton, when he got back to Milton the baby and I were ready to head to our room...

We just decided on a name last night...I wanted Omar...hubby wanted Mustafa...then we were watching Aljazeera and there is a reporter named Tamer and we both liked the name..so Tamer it is ...it is not for sure yet, since we have not even started his registration papers...as soon as those are sent the name sticks...

He is a good baby so far, as long as he gets enough food he sleeps well during the day and night...and he is soo adorable!!!

Yay January is here...Happy new year!!

I spent my new year sleeping this year....I chose to clean my house and ring in the new year with a nice neat clutter less house instead of going out and partying. Who wants to go out when you have a huge belly ahead of you?? So when 12 am hit I was sound asleep in bed beside my two cute little monsters....we had PJ party in my room...we watched a movie, ate some popcorn and fell asleep by 10pm....Happy new year!!

I hope 2009 is a good year for everyone..I know 2008 was not too kind to many of us!

My newest little monster will be born in 11 days inshallah....max 14 or 15 days if he is as lazy as my other two and has to be induced out...which is very fine with me...I have never gone into labour on my own and would rather not start now...not in the middle of January in stormy Canada...

I am just so happy he did not decide to come in December...the last thing I need is another kid yelling at me because he is the youngest in class...everyday we have the same old argument...if I change my birthday to July will that make me not the youngest...how about February..can we have a birthday party for me in February...why did you not eat my baby seed so I am not born in November...blah blah blah..You can not change your birthday damn it! I wish you could...I'd have my birthday in July so there are no storms on my bday, and I would have it 10 years later....

so yeh...wishing you all a happy new year.....