I am glad Ramadan and Eid are over!!! Oh the shock, how can I say that? Well unfortunately this is how I feel.
You see I am a naturally calm person, who likes quite and solitude. All this makes Ramadan and Eid a very hectic time for me since I got married.
My husbands family have, I suspect like many other families in Saudi Arabia, many breakfast parties during Ramadan. Each one has to invite the others overs for breakfast one day. As for Eid well they usually gather in a seaside cabin that they rent out together. Add to that some members of my husbands family: mother, 2 brothers and a sister live in Riyadh, so they come over here for Ramadan and Eid, and some of them stay with us. So Ramadan is spent catering for all the food needs of the family, socialising with others, both are tasking for me. Eid is spent in the terrible hot weather at the seaside cabin.
So, as far as Ramadan goes, forget the bless of solitude I used to enjoy during the month, before I got married. I used to enjoy the more relaxed atmosphere of Ramadan, less work, night life and such. No more. With all the going outs to family things, and not even having the luxury of a quite home to go, with all the stay-in visitors, Ramadan has become very stressful for me, and it is no longer an enjoyable time of year.
Eid, this year in particular it was terrible. Lucky me I did not get to go to the cabin. Lucky, think again. I fell sick, my two daughters were sick. So we spent Eid going to the hospital and nursing ourselves back to health from a sever cold that I am still recovering from. Makes one appreciate the heat of the cabin!! Heh.
I am certainly not looking forward to another Ramadan like that. I am hoping that by next year things maybe slightly different. One can hope?No?
1 comment:
whoa thank god we live far away from the rest of the big familly (gramma and my aunts and uncles) so we dont get any visitors or breakfast parties, Eed is spent queitly with the close family xD and to me its abit boring D:
wanna trade? XD
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