This is how we are storing them here in the Ahmad-Carter household, since they are coming in so fast!
(NOTE: I did NOT place them in the cabinet, however tempted I may have been to do so. I just happened to go check up on them and found them like this, lol)
And I thought I was getting BETTER at posting regularly. Its already the 18th of October!!!! Jeez!
On another note....if Muneera with her busy self with three kids can update her blog and make it look COOLly awesome, then SO......CAN........I......DAMMIT!
(How DO you spell 'Schizoprenic', anyway?)
The other day I had the good fortune to attend a wedding at the masjid by myself (i.e., without having to watch the two boys) As a result I was able to actually listen to the wedding speech/advice the Imam gave the couple.
It was pretty standard Muslim wedding advice, ie, love each other, have some understanding, work your differences out when you get to them, etc, etc.
But Imam Musa is funny. In trying to portray the fact that there WILL be differences to work through, he said, in essence,
Men and women are different. They could be looking at the same picture, and the man will laugh, and the woman will cry.
Now to the man, the emotional part of a woman seems a bit much at times, and he has to work hard to understand and be patient with that part of a woman that he cant relate to.
But, Allah gave that nature to women for a number of reasons, one of which being that she has to deal with the children more closely then then the man does.....
....and little children....are suicidal!
(Everybody laughed at that)
But for real, they have no innate knowledge of right or wrong, safe or dangerous. And the mother usually ends up SAVING THEIR LIVES at least once a day!
And of course everyone agreed. For some reason what he said stuck with me (maybe having two toddler BOYS has something to do with it? lol) but it made me think about the emotional ups and downs a woman has to be able to take to make it through the day, much less the weeks or months, with children.
People think of teenagers as being emotional as they transform from children to adults. Little children, are just as bad, because they dont yet understand WHY you must remove them from the top of the stove where those cool new buttons they found are, the ones that control the stovetop burners, for instance.
So they scream and yell and have a fit, THEN throw a tantrum, and the mother (mostly) is the one having to convince the child, that no, not only is getting on top of the stove a BAD idea, but that we dont throw tantrums when we dont get what we want, a well-mannered human being shows his or her dissapointment in other, more polite ways.
And THEN when we get angry because the tantrum goes on for longer than 5 minutes, we are faced with the challenge of managing our OWN anger while also setting an example for the child.
That a LOT of emotion for one day. And thats not even one day, thats one incident - as most parents know, there can be anywhere from 5-50 of these incidents a day.
So, yea. When we get emotional sometimes, people need to recognize. And for me, I need to recognize myself, and note that sometimes it just MIGHT be okay to throw a hissy fit over something. A warrented hissy fit, of course, but still.
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