My take on Jordan..

It is still March 12th in Canada! I have two more hours to publish this post! It is March break and I have been busy with the kids :)

Hmmm what to say, what to say! I have not read any other blogs today so I will not copy cat anyone.

Before 1998 Jordan was just a random country to me, I had never set foot in Jordan...Ok this is a lie I did spend a night in Amman when we too our first flight to Canada 20 something years ago! But it doesn’t count.

I married hubby, half of his family is in Jordan so naturally it became our yearly vacation spot, along with Syria.

On my first visit to Amman I fell in love with it! I did not know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised that it had lots of stores and brands I was used to, not as much as it does now! But after spending few weeks in Syria Amman was like Toronto! I loved how you can go to places and feel like you are in a western country, and go to other places and feel like you are in a different exotic world AKA downtown Amman, I love downtown Amman, it is a fun adventure!
I loved the Aqaba, it was very quite and serene! I loved the Dead Sea, Wadi rum, and all the historical places we got to visit in Jordan, I still have not been to Petra though!! (Annoying hubby! (*&^&%$#@QW$%R%&*))

In Jordan I felt that I belonged! Being a Palestinian in Lebanon was hell! In Jordan I was not any different from the rest, everyone talks the same way I do, and our family is called by our name, not the falastiniyi! *&^^%%$$! It felt more like home than anywhere else I lived in!

I enjoyed living in Jordan! The six months I got to live there were unforgettable! I loved every minute of it, except when I was crossing the streets and waiting for a taxi!

I will leave you with pictures of some of my favourite times in Amman. I have more pictures of our trips to 3ajloon and um qais I would like to share but they are on my other computer...I will leave them for the next blog for Jordan day! Enjoy...:)

Having lunch with friends at Macdonald's

At Dreampark

The Farm...so peaceful! Except for the dogs barking...!

At the Farm feeding the goats

Riding the horse in the Aqaba

At the Aqaba

Party at Wadi Rum

Cookie party! My yummy cookies!

snow in Amman

Dancing at the deadsea

Friday prayers, I loved the mosque in front of our house

Eid prayer..my baby is praying with them

snow, gym, driving ....

I have not posted for a while...I wanted to, but my complaints, rants and rambles (although they are all valid) seemed silly when everyone is posting about Gaza and more serious matters. But lets face it, I am not an issue blogger and probably will never beL


This morning my alarm went off at 6:45am, I have it set to 99.9fm so if there any school closure due to the weather I would know before I get up. We had yet another snow storm on Tuesday, but schools were open on Wednesday, it was still snowing on Wednesday morning. Transportation was cancelled so of course Ziad didn't go to school! Even I wanted to drive him to school I would not be able to; I had 20cm of snow on my driveway.


Since I have been back 1mo and 1wk ago I have had to shovel snow at least 7times!! My house is on a corner lot! It is great I get plenty of lights, I can see all directions from my house but I have a huge side walk to shovel snow off! AH my poor poor back! It took me two hours to shovel my single car driveway, while doing it I was thankful that we did not buy the bigger house with a two car driveway! So finally I had everything cleared, people will not curse at me when they walk on the sidewalk, no one will sue me for falling on my driveway and we are good!


Now I have a huge dilemma! We are expecting another storm on Saturday, 10-15cm of snow! Great no problem I am all stocked up on food and will be out shopping on Friday, shovelling the snow is no problem I am so used to it now , and it is a good exercise so no biggie! But I have a 4 foot pile of snow around the driveway! Where am I going to put the new snow???? Unless by some miracle a few inches of snow melt off those piles by Saturday shovelling snow will be even harder!


In this one month and one week I have shovelled more snow that I have in my 30some years living on this earth! I am so buying a snow blower! BUT I am sure once we buy one it will stop snowing! This has been one crazy year!


OK snow post is over...but I am not done "talking"


I finally joined a gym!! I joined on Saturday and so far I have worked out 2x! I figured I did not need to go to the gym yesterday since I got my workout from 2hrs of shovelling snow. Today I am super sore! My arms are sore from shovelling and my legs are sore from my lower body workout on Tuesday so I figured today I will rest my muscles. So yay! I am on a roll...I hope I can make it to the gym 4x next week! Although I have two kids to put at the small child minding room since it is March break next week, but it is ok.


The gym I joined is inside the superstore! Pretty dangerous for me considering that I am a shopaholic, so unless I need to pickup some milk or other groceries I am going to leave my wallet in the car! Ok yeh whatever! We are screwed!


Hubby is planning on leaving Saskatoon next Saturday! He is driving here since he has to bring his car, the million books we have there and other stuff. We are praying for good weather and please please no snow! It is a 3000KM drive I believe, about 30hrs driving. He will be stopping for the night in three different cities, driving about 9hr/day. I wish I could go there and then we drive together, but I do not want the kids missing too much school, they have already missed too much and I am sure my mom will be pulling her hair if I leave the kids with her for 5 days!:( O well...inshallah everything will be ok for him!

YAY!!

I am so happy! Hubby just accepted a job in Ontario at the company he worked at before moving to SK! He will start as soon as possible! We are going to be one big happy family again inshallah!

But now the stress starts, I know hubby will be doing it all, but still I am the one getting stressed! What to do with our furniture and stuff there!!

Hubby will drive so he can put all the books and stuff in the car with him, but uggh! Ok take a deep breath in, breath out, in , out...relax me! sheesh!

So yeh yay!

blocks!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I am so ready to scream!

Everytime Bolbol builds a block tower it falls! He builds it them skinny and does not make a good foundation at the bottom! He is so not going to be an engineer!

Everytime the tower falls he starts screaming and throwing the blocks away! He wants me to build him super dopper towers! Like I have nothing else to do! A girl can build so many block towers in a day...

*screaming*

my driver's licence picture!

I just got my Ontario driver's licence in the mail and for once I actually like my picture! My hair is perfect, not flat here and puffy on another side, my makeup is perfect, my smile is not weird or half a smile and it actually look like me! Yay! Now I can not wait until someone asks me for a photo ID!

The good news is I get to keep it until 2013! Yay! I wish I could say the same about my passport picture!

I'd show you guys, but I do not have a scanner here! But when I get a scanner I will show you my great licence picture!

I will be going to get my ontario health insurance card soon, let's hope the picture is as good! please please please!

Happy birthday my Dear blog!

OOps!!! I missed my blog birthday!!

Happy first bday Sam's blog!

It has been a nice year, my blog has been there for me when I needed to talk and no one else in the real world was there to listen...it has been a place I can blah blah all I want without someone rolling his eyes, and even if someone does roll his/her eyes, who cares! I can not see them!

7aki fadi inspired me to start my own blog after reading everyone else's blogs for about a year, I know I am such a copy cat!

On a totally different subject, I FINALLY got my car!! There is a big difference between driving a 1995 Accord and 2006 Accord! My new baby is so quite, I have to listen hard to see if it has turned on or not! I am not a big fan of black cars, but it is growing on me already! I am very thankful for our friends who lent me their car for the past 25 days! They are the nicest and sweetest people I know!

On another totally different subject, it is going to snow tomorrow! The snow has finally almost melted off our street and it comes again tomorrow! KILL ME PLEASE!

Thing to do before 18

1) Do not take your friends for granted, the friends you meet in your teens are the ones you will have for life...it is harder to find good friends when you get older...

2) Make exercise a habit and be good to your body, you will be glad you did later!

3) Eat all the junk and fast food you want and enjoy it while your metabolism is still high and calories burn without much affort!

4) Enjoy your time with family and friends, who knows where life will take you later.

5) Learn to ride a bike and to play an musical instrument

6) Dream big, nothing is too impossible! Work on acheiving your dreams, and know that although school seems unimportant it is the only mean to reach your dreams so do good! As much you hate school now, one day you will miss your school days!

I tag nido, Omar, KJ!

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List 6 actions or achievements you think every person should accomplish before turning 18.
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