My Smiling Kids

Here I am still having trouble updating this blog. I think I have abandoned it for more than 3 months and now I paused just too many times even to finish a sentence..

We went back to Msia for 5 weeks in July to August. We came back here very tired and exhausted only to find out that the house was full of dust and of course the floor downstairs was really like a beach full of sand. Literally! We were told, there were 5 occasions of sandstorm and that explains the condition of my very very sandy floor! No I didn’t bother to vacuum or sweep it.. I was too tired and so did MrA.

Then, in less than 24 hours later, the movers were all ready waiting for us to open the door for them to clear up the house. Yes, we moved from Doha to AlKhor in the same community in which Inas’ school is located… Alhamdulillah

This means Inas school journey is cut so much shorter.. from 1 hour to merely 5 – 10 minutes (and that is considering the bus can only move at a maximum speed level of 25 km/hr in this community)

Tired.. exhausted and disorientated as I had no idea where all the stuff were kept. I had to open every closet and drawers of the new house. It’s like playing hide and seek with my very own belongings.. I didn’t have the energy to monitor where things were kept in/at and so I just let them arranged freely according to their logical sense haha

and not mentioning having to list down all the faulty things in the new house.. you know like something’s not working.. not functioning.. broken or faulty… and the list goes on and MrA had to identify which complaint goes to electrical, which goes to civil, mechanical and so forth because.. oh sorry Madam, we’re not in charge of that.. you have to report to so and so... and not forgetting that to fix one TINY handle of kitchen drawer, a group of at least 3 men would come- the supervisor with at least 2 workers and all of them would gather at the broken kitchen cabinet handle.. hehe Amusing!!

So, for 2-3 weeks after that seeing me waiting patiently for every different kind of different maintenance guy who most of the time have no time-frame so to speak. Well, it’s nothing new.. but it got worse when the person couldn’t differentiate yesterday and tomorrow or Thursday and Tuesday…. When I was upstairs and heard the door bell rang, I must make myself moved very very quickly which was not that easy. Well, you know sometimes they didn’t want to wait a little bit and quickly went away and easily would say.. Ohh we went to your house.. no one.. no one at home.. So, I had to quickly catch them at the door before they ran away!! and in the middle of the waiting game, nak pergi toilet pun berdebar takut door bell berbunyi hahahahha

Hmm.. Alhamdulillah after 2 months in the new house, things have gradually settling in its place.. except of course waiting for maintenance guys is the top priority of my house chores

And so after exactly 1 week moving into the new house, we welcomed the month of Ramadhan.. first time here Alhamdulillah..

In the middle of Ramadhan, the new academic year began. Inas is in Year 2 and Umar in Foundation Stage (Reception Class). Umar is the youngest in his class as he was born in August and here the cut off point for the kids’ birth date for every particular academic year is 31st August unlike in Msia it’s 31st December. On the first day, I let Umar went to school by bus and I came later to see him in his new classroom. He was really enjoying himself and didn’t bother to even say bye-bye to mummy

Mummy lekat tag dekat baju Umar hehe

Ist day- waiting for the bus

Umar's Class- 1st Day

Umar in Puppies Class @1st Day

Towards the end of Ramadhan Umar had his Orange day. On this day all the Reception Classes were assigned with different colours and Umar’s class got to be orange. I was initially worried because I never bought any orange clothes for him and there was not enough time to buy one. Alhamdulillah I remember the orange long sleeve tshirt my brother gave Umar last year. He had not wear it because it was slightly big for him then. So, on that Orange Day, Umar happily went to school in orange!! And he ate oranges and carrots during snack time too besides the food he brought from home. Her teacher Mrs E brought the oranges and carrots on Orange Day. I believe it was a very fun and interesting day for the kids. Thank you PakLong and MakLong for the orange tshirt Oh yes, I found an old orange hat MrA got during Family Day when we were back in Bintulu and thus Umar got to wear it to school on that day!!

Umar also painted an orange + black Eid Mubarak card and brought it home!! Thank you for the card Abg Umar!! ( I forgot to snap a pic of the card.. It’s there on the fridge’s door now)

And then it was Syawal.. It is also our first time celebrating Eid Fitr here in Qatar.. Alhamdulillah.. we got 5 open houses invitations and imagine how bloated the already bloated bump I have.  I have not mentioned in the blog that I am now 31 week pregnant and just like being pregnant with Inas, I feel like I am a big whale  Ok so nothing new about that. It’s just that with Inas I gained 20kg and now I gained 12 kg only but the final weight is just about the same… heheheh. Dont be surprised!! Before being pregnant with Inas I was obviously much much too much lighter compared with my current pre-pregnancy size hehe

Selamat Hari raya!!! 1 Syawal 1430H

Nak keluar pergi jalan2 raya /open houses waiting!!

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So, what’s new in this third preganancy?

New experience, new place, new hospital with a new practice… no epidural, no partner in the labour room, no monthly ultrasound which I was so used to of having when being pregnant with Inas and Umar.. hmm so much much new things which I deal with patiently..

And MrA is also a tad worried and disappointed that he couldn’t be able to be in the labour room. Err and I am preparing myself to embrace this new experience of in pain and pushing without MrA by my side and leave the rest to Allah.. May Allah make things easy for me Ameen..

Till the next one..