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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

salam,

Phew, it's been awhile don't you think? I apologize for the lack of updates since it was a hard week for me last week. I was going through a parental meltdown and since my mum finally came back after 6 months away from home, visiting my eldest sister in the UK, i couldn't find a more prefect timing to bond and share my 'meltdown' with her. I missed my mum, and going through crash course to parenthood, and not having anyone around me to share them with (besides you girls in my blogs), having her back is like a bucket of water over a small triggering flame. Alhamdulillah. 

And now, after gaining new motivations...and really being optimistic (as cliche as it sound), things are definitely looking up. Negative aura is out the window and to make it great again, I could READ again...together now, YAY!! I tried not to get ambitious about reading, so before i jump on the pregnancy research wagon again, i tried reading something light. My mum brough back some books which she bought for her in-flight reading material, adding to my suprise over other things she brought back, i found a book that was on my reading list : The Girls of Riyadh which she bought on her flight break in Dubai, visiting my younger sister.

As for my review, it's like i mentioned, it is a very light read and to be frank, it's really not that bad. It would be like reading pages of post from your favorite anonymous-reality-blog. Something like Sex-In-The-City Saudi style. Definitely one of your in-flight reading material. 

Updates on my parental dilemma? Alhamdulillah, i think we're making progress at home, my step son and i, we're slowly tolerating and cooperating to each other. Let's hope the next parental-roller-coaster won't drive me up the wall. Being a mum sure makes us appreciate our mum much more, i couldn't imagine there's a higher degree of appreciating and loving our mother, but there is...SubhanAllah. 

I'm starting to get baby bumps, and it's pretty visible already. Although since i'm always clad in loose fitting blouses and abaya, it's still not too obvious. I'm still pretty hungry all the time. and by afternoon, i'm still getting all heavy-eyed. And since i've started to go back to the university to teach again, i've been counting my yawn every afternoon i'm in class. Thank God i'm only have class 2 days a week, or else i'm sure the kids is taking more of my tonsil than the notes i'm sending. *shheessh* I gave my first lecture last week, and i'm still very excited with teaching. I might consider their offer for me to teach more classes, insyaAllah...probably after the little feet is out and about. I even consider having little feet dangling in baby pouch around my body whenever i go to teach...i wonder if the university would think it's a bad idea...*hmm* who knows, insyaAllah.

More updates insyaAllah, in the meantime. Take one day at a time...

"Yesterday is a lesson, Today is a chance, and Tomorrow is uncertain"...YALLAH!!

Love+Peace,

H