So far our move to Jordan is a go, but you know there are still three more months to and who knows what happens in those three months.
How the heck am I going to drive in Amman, sure the area where we will be living in is not as busy as say downtown Amman, or so I have been told since I have never been to nos elbalad.
And what is up with those sidewalks?? My son is a runner, so unless he is sitting in a stroller I will be chasing him. And those darned sidewalks and stroller just do not go together. If there aren’t any steps here and there, there are trees right in the middle of the sidewalk, which apparently the city is getting rid of. How does a handicapped person live in Amman? You see people in those cool wheel chair, my son is so fascinated with those, and they can go anywhere, but I can not see a person in a wheelchair being able to get around in Amman, same with strollers. I want to get my son one of those so he will not run off, he so ma besma3 elkelme and the minute he is out of the stroller he wants to run all over.
Now I know that people are different in the mideast. Few years ago in Jordan we went to this restaurant, gosh I do not what it is called the one inside a cave. Anyways we were sitting outside, it has a million stairs here and there, lots of rocks and very unsafe for a child unsupervised. My husband’s niece was 18 month old and she was left alone to roam all over the place. Now I will let my five-year-old roam around but with my eyes on his constantly though, but not my 2.5yo. I just do not get it, how can an eighteen-month-old baby be left alone to roam freely! In Syria I saw kids in diapers, playing on the street with their older sibling, who were about three or four years old, if someone sees kids this age playing alone on the streets in Canada, the police would be called within minutes.
Then there is the no central heat thing. My mother in law keeps on saying ya welli 3aleekom in this cold. But I’m thinking ya weeli 3alikom into in Jordan. It may be –40 here, but we are very warm at home. I do not own long sleeves PJ, my kids are inside with very light cloths on, their PJs are short sleeves and they are mostly in shorts and T’s at home all winter long. But in Jordan well at least at my in-laws homes I was freezing all day long. I think I will take freezing from my home to my car, and the car to my destination for few minutes rather than being cold all day long and wearing tons of clothes, which I really hate.
Ok so I guess since I promised I will go and spend at least one year in Amman, I will go and I will get used to it. BUT I do plan to drive my husband crazy, I will call him everyday and complain, ok maybe not everyday, just Saturday morning to get him back for driving us crazy with his Canada sucks whines (which it doesn’t, Canada is awesome!). Even if I do end up love living in Jordan, which who knows, I might love it once I get past driving, and the wearing a million things all day long:)
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
where did my tears go??
wow, I was told that eyes get very dry after Lasik, but not this much. I have to put drops in my eyes few times a day. Yesterday I made Msakhan. I was cutting all that onion, ok only four onions, it is just for the two of us, the kids eat hummous sandwiches, and although my eyes wanted to cry and got painful, but no tears came out! I HAVE NO TEARS!!!! Now when my husband upsets me, how is he supposed to know I am sad???!!!! NO tears mean no guilt trips!! o MAN, I want my tears back....
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Araby bread
We are thinking of driving to Edmonton this coming weekend. Are we going to see friends, well we will see friends but they are not the reason we are going. Do we want to go to Edmonton Mall, yeh we will go there, but it is not the reason we are going, although shopping in a huge mall will be a nice change from the tiny big mall Saskatoon has.
The main reason why I want to go is so I can buy Araby bread! Like my son calls. There are no Arabic store in Saskatoon. Superstore does carry some Arabic items, along with some pita bread, but a Greek bakery in Calgary makes them, and they suck!! It is hard to make them into a sandwich because they betfatfato (break apart). Lately all of us only want to eat araby bread, my son wants his peanut butter, cheese, hummus sandwiches all made with pita.
Since it will be spring break and my husband has a day off. Well make it into a four-day weekend, and we might even drive to Jasper!!! So that will be fun, I know once I mention jasper my husband will be sold on the idea!
Edmonton is a five-hour drive from Saskatoon. But hey spring is here (well not today, it is snowing and a –9 feels like –18 degrees, what the hell?!!!!!) this will be our first mini vacation this year, and next month when the weather gets nicer we’ll drive to Vancouver a good 12-15hour drive through the mountains, our dream trip!
So yeh the main reason for this weekend getaway is to get araby bread, but it will be fun tooJ
Reverse Psychology
OMG I am sooooooooooo stupid!! Why didn’t I think of this sooner?? I would have saved myself so much whining, and fighting!
For the past two years all I have been saying is how we will be moving to Jordan, and dumbo little old me was fighting it all the way.
Now that I have finally said sure I will go, and I am preparing myself, I have already spent $500 on clothes since yesterday! And now hubby is kind of backing off the idea. There is no way he will be able to stand us being so far away, especially in a country where safety is not a #1, and everything is very different than what the kids and I are used to.
Two years ago in march my husband decided to finally accept an offer in Edmonton and try it out. The kids and I stayed in Toronto. We went to Edmonton in mid April and stayed with my husband for three weeks then came back home in Milton. He came to Toronto every for 2-3 days every 2 weeks or so, we went back to Edmonton in July and stayed for three weeks. In august he accepted an offer in Saskatoon and moved here. By then he was going crazy without us, and whining about how this is no life, blah blah blah and finally I agreed to move to Saskatoon, which both the kids and I hate!
So imagine how much harder it will if we do move to Amman. In Toronto he knew I was used to the area, everything was accessible to us, my family was a 30min drive away, and I could drive without having to deal with too many bad drivers who do not always follow the rules. But with all that he was always worried about us. If we are in Amman he will not be able to come visit too many times, other than the cost, it is a very tiring trip. He complained to no end about the flight from Edmonton to Toronto for god’s sake and it was a 4 hr flight!
See if I said on Saturday morning, no way I will not go to Amman like I always do, we would have been fighting about it until today. So now I am not the one holding us back from fulfilling his dreams on living in Jordan :)
To me I would love for nothing more than to go back to my house in Toronto where I am near my family and friends. I hate apartment living so much, and I was hoping to never do it again. I miss my back yard, my brand new appliances, and my almost brand new house. I want to go plant some flowers some pushes in my garden, although I have the brownest thumbs ever so I will probably end up hiring someone to do it.
You never know, where we will be next year. In Toronto or Amman, I am not cancelling my son’s preschool registration. I even registered my older son for camp this summer in Milton, and he is looking forward to it. My son has been so looking forward to going to Canada’s wonderland, the kids are finally old enough to go.
We’ll see, I guess it will be fun if we do move to Amman. To live with Arabs, it will be a nice experience, something I have always longed for. My only concern is driving. I do not even know how to parallel park! I learned how to do it in driving school, didn’t do it on my exam because it was February and the sides of streets full of snow banks. And ever since I never really needed to parallel park. Parking is plentiful in Canada that I have hardly ever had to Street Park.
For the past two years all I have been saying is how we will be moving to Jordan, and dumbo little old me was fighting it all the way.
Now that I have finally said sure I will go, and I am preparing myself, I have already spent $500 on clothes since yesterday! And now hubby is kind of backing off the idea. There is no way he will be able to stand us being so far away, especially in a country where safety is not a #1, and everything is very different than what the kids and I are used to.
Two years ago in march my husband decided to finally accept an offer in Edmonton and try it out. The kids and I stayed in Toronto. We went to Edmonton in mid April and stayed with my husband for three weeks then came back home in Milton. He came to Toronto every for 2-3 days every 2 weeks or so, we went back to Edmonton in July and stayed for three weeks. In august he accepted an offer in Saskatoon and moved here. By then he was going crazy without us, and whining about how this is no life, blah blah blah and finally I agreed to move to Saskatoon, which both the kids and I hate!
So imagine how much harder it will if we do move to Amman. In Toronto he knew I was used to the area, everything was accessible to us, my family was a 30min drive away, and I could drive without having to deal with too many bad drivers who do not always follow the rules. But with all that he was always worried about us. If we are in Amman he will not be able to come visit too many times, other than the cost, it is a very tiring trip. He complained to no end about the flight from Edmonton to Toronto for god’s sake and it was a 4 hr flight!
See if I said on Saturday morning, no way I will not go to Amman like I always do, we would have been fighting about it until today. So now I am not the one holding us back from fulfilling his dreams on living in Jordan :)
To me I would love for nothing more than to go back to my house in Toronto where I am near my family and friends. I hate apartment living so much, and I was hoping to never do it again. I miss my back yard, my brand new appliances, and my almost brand new house. I want to go plant some flowers some pushes in my garden, although I have the brownest thumbs ever so I will probably end up hiring someone to do it.
You never know, where we will be next year. In Toronto or Amman, I am not cancelling my son’s preschool registration. I even registered my older son for camp this summer in Milton, and he is looking forward to it. My son has been so looking forward to going to Canada’s wonderland, the kids are finally old enough to go.
We’ll see, I guess it will be fun if we do move to Amman. To live with Arabs, it will be a nice experience, something I have always longed for. My only concern is driving. I do not even know how to parallel park! I learned how to do it in driving school, didn’t do it on my exam because it was February and the sides of streets full of snow banks. And ever since I never really needed to parallel park. Parking is plentiful in Canada that I have hardly ever had to Street Park.
Monday, April 2, 2007
my first tag!
Thank you 7aki fadi for tagging me! :p
so here goes :)
1. If there was a fire at your house and you could save only one thing (item)
what would that be?
I do not know…I do not even want to think about it…few months ago the fire
alarm went off in my building and holly crap. I was working on potty
training my son and he was naked and it was –40 degrees out. How the heck
was supposed to dress my baby in his clothes, snow suite and all the
required clothes for the damned cold. Thankfully the fire alarm stopped
after a minute, false alarm! Needless to say my son is still in diapers
until the warm weather comes and we are able to potty train.
Ok back to what I would save, if it were during that cold time I’d grab
everything from our coat closet and warm clothes to put the kids in. If it
were summer I would save my purse, because I’d be lost without my ID’s and
credit cards :)
2. What is the most embarrassing situation you have been in?
This was
pretty embarrassing. You should have seen how red my face was.
But even more embarrassing was when I was in grade 2 in Lebanon and we
were in the middle of a test in English class and I had to go pee. I asked the
teacher and he yelled at me and said that I had to wait after the
test. Well I was 6/7 and I really had to go, I could not hold it so I peed in
my pants. I lived far away from school, so I had to go my uncle’s home,
walking in my wet pant and borrow my chubby cousin’s clothes that were 3
sizes bigger than me. Now that was super embarrassing!!!!!
3. If you can do over a part of your life, what will you change?
I would not really want to do anything over. Everything that happened in my life
taught me a lot and made me more understanding. Ok maybe not, if I could have my
son back to being a baby and not speaking any English with him at all like I see
a lot of parents do with their kids, I would have saved myself a lot of hearing
my husband’s na’na’(whine)
ok I guess I tag nido,maioush and Summer
so here goes :)
1. If there was a fire at your house and you could save only one thing (item)
what would that be?
I do not know…I do not even want to think about it…few months ago the fire
alarm went off in my building and holly crap. I was working on potty
training my son and he was naked and it was –40 degrees out. How the heck
was supposed to dress my baby in his clothes, snow suite and all the
required clothes for the damned cold. Thankfully the fire alarm stopped
after a minute, false alarm! Needless to say my son is still in diapers
until the warm weather comes and we are able to potty train.
Ok back to what I would save, if it were during that cold time I’d grab
everything from our coat closet and warm clothes to put the kids in. If it
were summer I would save my purse, because I’d be lost without my ID’s and
credit cards :)
2. What is the most embarrassing situation you have been in?
This was
pretty embarrassing. You should have seen how red my face was.
But even more embarrassing was when I was in grade 2 in Lebanon and we
were in the middle of a test in English class and I had to go pee. I asked the
teacher and he yelled at me and said that I had to wait after the
test. Well I was 6/7 and I really had to go, I could not hold it so I peed in
my pants. I lived far away from school, so I had to go my uncle’s home,
walking in my wet pant and borrow my chubby cousin’s clothes that were 3
sizes bigger than me. Now that was super embarrassing!!!!!
3. If you can do over a part of your life, what will you change?
I would not really want to do anything over. Everything that happened in my life
taught me a lot and made me more understanding. Ok maybe not, if I could have my
son back to being a baby and not speaking any English with him at all like I see
a lot of parents do with their kids, I would have saved myself a lot of hearing
my husband’s na’na’(whine)
ok I guess I tag nido,maioush and Summer
Palestinian Children
I borrowed this video from Summer's blog
I still have no idea how to post a clip on my blog..if anyone knows feel free to help me:)
anyways...this is so sad, I feel so helpless not being able to do anything to help these kids out. I lived in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon for few months, and I went to school there from preschool to grade 6. The camps were horrible and at some places disgusting, but they are 100000000000000000x times better than the camps in palestine, so I can not even begin to imagine how horrible their lives in these camps are.
The URL to the video is:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.fullscreen&videoid=1380469430
I still have no idea how to post a clip on my blog..if anyone knows feel free to help me:)
anyways...this is so sad, I feel so helpless not being able to do anything to help these kids out. I lived in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon for few months, and I went to school there from preschool to grade 6. The camps were horrible and at some places disgusting, but they are 100000000000000000x times better than the camps in palestine, so I can not even begin to imagine how horrible their lives in these camps are.
The URL to the video is:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.fullscreen&videoid=1380469430
Sunday, April 1, 2007
panick, panick, panick
Today my husband woke up to his usual saturday angry whine. "What are we going to do about this?" "what is your solution to zozo and bolbol not speaking arabic like an arab"
I want to invent something for my husband that prevents him from talking before drinking his morning coffee and his smoke. Such a nice guy other times..is a big monster on saturday morning before his coffee and smoke! I should have stuck to my I will never marry a smoker plan, why did my hubby have to be so freakin cute and so sweet...o well what is done is done, I guess having to live with his pre smoke mood is not too bad...considering all this other great traits. I really dread Ramadan for this reason, OMG do not talk to him, do not look at him, get out of his way, well at least for the first week.
Ok so enough about hubby, and back to the point of my post. Our solution to this problem is to move to Jordan. I guess living in Jordan for one year is worth it if I never hear this arab/move to Jordan weekly whine.
Since hubby can not work in Jordan, and most of the arabic countries the kids and I will move to Jordan, while he stays here.
His sister has a mission to find us a rental apartment very close to my mother in law's house, a shagalah, and a car! Me drive in Jordan, OMG!
Right now my biggest worry is buying clothes for the kids, in Sept they will need a whole wardrobe. It is so annoying how kids grow so fast. I want to go to the mall, I hope they still have winter clothes still! clothes are so expensive in Amman, it is outrageous! I will have to buy enough clothes and shoes for me, I will not buy a pair of shoes for 250-300JD! Damn, those shoes were not even that nice! I love shopping in Canada.
Now problem#2, I have to find a hair dresser....I do not want another hair disaster! I cut my hair every 6-8wks.
Problem#3 GYM! I have to find a gym close to where we will be living. I am thinking gyms with daycare are not plentiful eh? But I will have a shagalah..this is the only reason I will want a helper.
Ok I have a million problems to post about our move I will post them later, I gotta go shopping now before the mall closes. But at least we finally established that I will not live with my mother in law! So at least this is not an issue anymore.
I want to invent something for my husband that prevents him from talking before drinking his morning coffee and his smoke. Such a nice guy other times..is a big monster on saturday morning before his coffee and smoke! I should have stuck to my I will never marry a smoker plan, why did my hubby have to be so freakin cute and so sweet...o well what is done is done, I guess having to live with his pre smoke mood is not too bad...considering all this other great traits. I really dread Ramadan for this reason, OMG do not talk to him, do not look at him, get out of his way, well at least for the first week.
Ok so enough about hubby, and back to the point of my post. Our solution to this problem is to move to Jordan. I guess living in Jordan for one year is worth it if I never hear this arab/move to Jordan weekly whine.
Since hubby can not work in Jordan, and most of the arabic countries the kids and I will move to Jordan, while he stays here.
His sister has a mission to find us a rental apartment very close to my mother in law's house, a shagalah, and a car! Me drive in Jordan, OMG!
Right now my biggest worry is buying clothes for the kids, in Sept they will need a whole wardrobe. It is so annoying how kids grow so fast. I want to go to the mall, I hope they still have winter clothes still! clothes are so expensive in Amman, it is outrageous! I will have to buy enough clothes and shoes for me, I will not buy a pair of shoes for 250-300JD! Damn, those shoes were not even that nice! I love shopping in Canada.
Now problem#2, I have to find a hair dresser....I do not want another hair disaster! I cut my hair every 6-8wks.
Problem#3 GYM! I have to find a gym close to where we will be living. I am thinking gyms with daycare are not plentiful eh? But I will have a shagalah..this is the only reason I will want a helper.
Ok I have a million problems to post about our move I will post them later, I gotta go shopping now before the mall closes. But at least we finally established that I will not live with my mother in law! So at least this is not an issue anymore.
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