New Clothes & Ifthar With Granny

Sunday, August 14^th 2011

Today ummi took us to a clothing store to buy new clothes for feast. Ummi said it’s Sunnah to wear the best clothes we had on the day of Eid. However ummi also said that we should not be exaggerated, because Allah did not like it.

We went to Queen's boutique at the mall nearby, Ummi had become a regular customer and we were given a discount for every outfit we bought. In addition buying clothes for me and my brother, Ummi also bought mukena for praying.

Back from shopping, we went to granny's house. Today we would break the fast together. I was very happy when we all gathered, I have a lot of fun cousins​​. There were Muammar the intelligent and oldest one, the caring Ibrahim, Tazkiyan who never stopped moving, the chubbiest baby ever Bilal, and Tsurayya, my only loving cousin sister. We've played dot and line. Did you know how it work? We sat in rows, and each child draw points, lines, and tickle like spider legs on a child’s back in front. we did it while singing like this,

“dot, dot, dot! Line, line, line!

Spider here, spider there!

Spider everywhere!!”

In the evening after ifthar, uncle Ivan lit a lot of fireworks for us. We were very excited. All children love fireworks, right?

And finally when it’s time to go home we were very tired and I could no longer listen to ummi while she reads story and prays for us. Hoaahmmmm….. good night mommy, we love you so much… thank you for the clothes... ~,~

Abi Went Working

Saturday, August 13th 2011

Abi back to work today and will return home six weeks later. He is a supervisor geologist in a mining company, he works on a mining site at Batu Licin, South Kalimantan. He will depart this afternoon by car.

This morning we went together to find marine fish which he had promised me for my pet. But after four fish shops we did not find any marine fish. The sellers said the waves were so high that it’s difficult to get such a fish. So we came home and walked abi for his departure.

We visited granny after that to play with cousins and then went home for ifthar. The circumstance slightly changed when abi working away, no one teased and joked with a wide laughter as abi did, but we're used to it. Then right before bed at night, ummi always reading stories for us.

So this is the book today,

Alfred Chest's Story

The story is about an elephant who feels sad because it has a very very long trunk like no other elephants. Every day he always tried to hide his trunk, folded it, wrapped it in a blanket, or hide it in the flower vines. But one day, he managed to help a little girl with his long trunk. In the end he was grateful because he has a longer trunk, and he was proud to be different.

This is a great story and we loved it. Ummi said this story teaches us to be grateful for what Allah has given us.

Mourning Day

Friday, August 12^th 2011

Today was a day of mourning, our beloved ancestor had passed away yesterday, that was why I did not go to school. We still gather at grandparent's house at Samboja and pray fo her,
"Allahumma-ghfir lahaa, warham haa, wa 'aafihaa, wa'fu' anhaa"

Abi came today from work to attend the funeral and will going back tomorrow on Saturday.
I'm glad to see abi though only one day.

Dear Our Loving Teacher

Faza was absent from school on the last day of studying, so when we told that the duty of parents for holiday was to create a holiday activities clipping (perhaps a kind of scrapbook) I was a little confused because to be honest, I'm not that creative mother in making craft.

Then the idea to create a blog as a Faza’s journal activity just came out that way, and we hope still rated as a creative efforts of parents though it’s even more digital than expected. One of the shortcomings of this journal is that we do not attach any photos here, well, because in fact we do not have any camera gadget or at least a mobile device with an adequate camera. So, here we are, writing for our little girl Faza Mujahidah ash-Shiddiq.

Please enjoy, and rate of course! ^^