I recently tried it and it is wonderful.The nail polish is great it does strengthen the nails and help them grow. The lipstick is so smooth and the colors are nice and look velvety soft and my lips feel moisturizer after I use it.
I just wanted to share as it is not such a popular brand around here so maybe if more peole hear about it it will pick up.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Me and motherhood
My hubby started us on the parenting road. He wanted to be a Dad. On the other hand my maternal instincts did ot kick in till I had my first baby. Now as I get older I'd like to have more and more, but as I hitting forty in a couple of weeks it is not logical to peruse that feeling any more, specially that I have 4 wonderful children now.
I am trying to focus on enjoying the short months of my baby's life as an infant, cherishing every moment of it. My other three children (8,6,4) are no less of a joy. Looking at how they grew so nicely and the anticipation of years to come gives life a whole and wonderful meaning.
I am trying to focus on enjoying the short months of my baby's life as an infant, cherishing every moment of it. My other three children (8,6,4) are no less of a joy. Looking at how they grew so nicely and the anticipation of years to come gives life a whole and wonderful meaning.
Friday, June 03, 2011
No one leaves you with a dream...
like disney does.
I watched with my family Tangled and it was great. Just like every other movie of Disney I watched. I have no idea why they are going to stop their princess movies, with all the ugliness in the world one needs a dream every now and then. I am just hoping that they will still be able to dazzle us with other stories. Disney please keep the dream!!!
I watched with my family Tangled and it was great. Just like every other movie of Disney I watched. I have no idea why they are going to stop their princess movies, with all the ugliness in the world one needs a dream every now and then. I am just hoping that they will still be able to dazzle us with other stories. Disney please keep the dream!!!
Monday, May 16, 2011
What is this?!!
I am getting this weird feeling these days, I am doing my normal things and suddenly I feel overwhelmed with sadness. I have nothing to be sad about thank God all is generally well. Is it postpartum depression kicking in a bit late, cos my brain was busy getting rid of the palsy, or is it depression due to extreme tiredness from caring for sick children, my children have been suffering from one form of cold or other for the last 2 months; and it is very tiring and emotionally tasking to deal with sick children. I don't know all I know is that it happens.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
As I get older
I used to think that public display of affection is romantic. Now I think it is vulgar.
Now I think courteous gestures both in public and other wise are romantic.
Now I think courteous gestures both in public and other wise are romantic.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Smooth mornings
Some mornings are wonderful. The baby eats, gets changed and bathed, and sleeps calmly. The older children play with each other and don't cause any trouble. Mummy gets to do some chores, eats some and relax some. My morning today was such a soft morning, I loved it.
Almost normal.
I went out with my children for fun day yesterday and I was happy to see that I am back to normal. I was feeling fine, not tired and was able to enjoy the couple of hours we spent outside. Yeah it is going to be more difficult with a baby on board. but feeling physically good really helps. All my physical problems are clearing away, now I have to try and focus a bit more to get my life back in order.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
OK so I gave birth.
Usually I rant a lot about pregnancy on this blog, since I started posting I had to express how bad it makes me feel every time. But this time I did not. Not that it made me feel great or anything, it was as awful as overtime, I just had nothing more to add.
But this time thinking that I am prepared for everything, after all I have been through 6 pregnancies, 3 births and 3 miscarriages I was not happily surprised with some problems during my least month.
First, my Blood press was less than stable, one day high and one day law. Second the baby seemed to be moving about in my uterus too much, I go to the doctor one day and he is head down, the second visit he is sideways… At which I tried to do the Spinning Babies technique (there is a website) and maybe it helped I can't tell for sure. All I can say is that when the baby was sideways I was in a lot of pain, and after doing their poses the pain was gone and on my next visit the baby was head down again.
Third, just a day before my due date I was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy can you imagine… And then I find out that pregnant women in their third trimester are actually at higher risk of Palsy… LIke we need this.
So here I go to my doctor a day before my due date and tell him all about it, and he finds out that my BP is going higher again so he recommends induction on my due date. Primarily for the Blood pressure and because of the baby's movement and the size; he is expecting the baby to be tad big.
So crying my eyes out next day I head to the hospital.
OK I guess the rest have to wait.
But this time thinking that I am prepared for everything, after all I have been through 6 pregnancies, 3 births and 3 miscarriages I was not happily surprised with some problems during my least month.
First, my Blood press was less than stable, one day high and one day law. Second the baby seemed to be moving about in my uterus too much, I go to the doctor one day and he is head down, the second visit he is sideways… At which I tried to do the Spinning Babies technique (there is a website) and maybe it helped I can't tell for sure. All I can say is that when the baby was sideways I was in a lot of pain, and after doing their poses the pain was gone and on my next visit the baby was head down again.
Third, just a day before my due date I was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy can you imagine… And then I find out that pregnant women in their third trimester are actually at higher risk of Palsy… LIke we need this.
So here I go to my doctor a day before my due date and tell him all about it, and he finds out that my BP is going higher again so he recommends induction on my due date. Primarily for the Blood pressure and because of the baby's movement and the size; he is expecting the baby to be tad big.
So crying my eyes out next day I head to the hospital.
OK I guess the rest have to wait.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Electricity
Electricity was out for 14 hours at our street. First it was ok then it was difficult and finally I just couldn't breath any more.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Baby nostalgia
OK so recently a few months back after more or less settling on no more babies, I found myself pregnant. Only to lose the baby at 8 weeks. But that left me with wanting babies again, more than ever before. So it got me thinking maybe it is midlife crises as I am approaching my forties. So I go and ask my ever so wise??? younger sister what she thinks. And I tell her: do you think it is ok to have a baby as a middle life crises? And to my surprise she says: isn't that why people usually have children... :) Though it was quite an unfair statement to human kind, it got me thinking that maybe it is not so odd to have the baby itch at my age, particularly that I started late at the game. Mmm... don't know we'll see how goes...
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Priceless moments of the day
My day basically is all about my girls. It is no longer so tiring, now that my youngest is 2 years 7 months, but still plenty of work. Not to mention all the required attention you need to provide for them and the on going effort to teach and nurture. But still easier than having to deal with a nursing infant at the same time.
Though on days like today, when one of them is sick things seem to get difficult again. I feel more stressed and nervous not just because of the extra work, but also because I am worried about the sick child.
So today between the extra work, the doctor visit and the emotional stress. Come evening I am extremely exhausted. So I make a cup of coffee and sit with my laptop sipping it, for those who don't know, coffee is soothing and stimulating all at once (coming from an addict). So while I am having my coffee and my three darlings watching some TV and having their bed time snack, my youngest calls me, repeatedly, and I answer thinking there goes my coffee, but instead she says: "I love you mummy" and I find my self all recharged and willing to do it all over again.
Those priceless moments in our lives make it all worthwhile.
The laughter of our young ones. The lovely things they say and do. And recently my girls have been showing me more and more of those lovely gestures that just open your heart and brighten your day.
Though on days like today, when one of them is sick things seem to get difficult again. I feel more stressed and nervous not just because of the extra work, but also because I am worried about the sick child.
So today between the extra work, the doctor visit and the emotional stress. Come evening I am extremely exhausted. So I make a cup of coffee and sit with my laptop sipping it, for those who don't know, coffee is soothing and stimulating all at once (coming from an addict). So while I am having my coffee and my three darlings watching some TV and having their bed time snack, my youngest calls me, repeatedly, and I answer thinking there goes my coffee, but instead she says: "I love you mummy" and I find my self all recharged and willing to do it all over again.
Those priceless moments in our lives make it all worthwhile.
The laughter of our young ones. The lovely things they say and do. And recently my girls have been showing me more and more of those lovely gestures that just open your heart and brighten your day.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Adoption
A few months ago I found myself thinking and considering adoption. I did think that I might do that years back before I got marries and then when I did I decided to wait and see how I feel about my own children and about adoption once I had my own. Well since then I decided I can't adopt. I was overwhelmed with how I felt about my children. The love, the need to protect and nurture them and how with all the trouble and the hard work that comes with them, there is nothing that I enjoy more than my children. But now recently I can't stop thinking about adoption.
First I found myself having those nurturing feeling to other babies and the sight of a new born just moves like I am the mother. So this got me thinking: maybe now I can do it. Off course the idea of providing an unfortunate orphan a decent living and some parental love preaches itself. But I needed to be be sure I can do it.
Now, I think I am. I just want to figure out how and when. I have three lovely girls of my own and I want to make sure I do it in a way that makes this a good addition to our family.
First I found myself having those nurturing feeling to other babies and the sight of a new born just moves like I am the mother. So this got me thinking: maybe now I can do it. Off course the idea of providing an unfortunate orphan a decent living and some parental love preaches itself. But I needed to be be sure I can do it.
Now, I think I am. I just want to figure out how and when. I have three lovely girls of my own and I want to make sure I do it in a way that makes this a good addition to our family.
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Random thought
How do I know that me thinking about having a fourth child now is not a mid-life crisis???
I miss having and holding little new borns, but still...
I miss having and holding little new borns, but still...
Thursday, March 04, 2010
HMMM
Much to say about a lot.
Since the start of the new year.
I had Bad hair cut.
Plans for a new home disrupted.
I had a miscarriage and an D&C.
Not very pleasant.
So I am depressed and think I am going through a mid life crises on top of all.
Things I am grateful for:
My girls,
A decent life
My husband
A caring family
Faith.
I am grateful for my blessings. But still I am depressed. Can't help it.
Since the start of the new year.
I had Bad hair cut.
Plans for a new home disrupted.
I had a miscarriage and an D&C.
Not very pleasant.
So I am depressed and think I am going through a mid life crises on top of all.
Things I am grateful for:
My girls,
A decent life
My husband
A caring family
Faith.
I am grateful for my blessings. But still I am depressed. Can't help it.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Perfumes
OK one of the things that I am fanatic about is perfumes. I just love a good scent. I have favorites and I also like to try new stuff. And I so loooove a beautiful perfume bottle.
After a longer than I liked wait, I splurged on a perfumes from wholesalers, and I got me a bunch of new and old favorites. While trying them I noticed that each one makes me feel a different way, and creates certain feelings and images in my head. So I thought I'd write this down.
Quelque Fleurs: this is my first time using this old perfumes. I always admired it but form a distance. This time I decided to get it. And when I am using I feel relaxed and expensive. Yeah, it makes me feel like a posh Parisian lady who wears classic outfits, likes to slightly over do it with accessories, but gets away with it. But this lady is also warm, and romantic. It is a scent that invites you to come closer, and I will whisper something nice in your ear.
Paris: I always seem to get nostalgic for this perfumes during the winter months. It is not so cold around here that is for sure, but when the weather gets cooler during those months, the smell of winter is in the air, and it is then that I miss and feel like I want to use this perfume. And when I use it, I imagine winter in Paris, the wet floor in the Champs-Elysees, the bare trees and the sizzle of soft rain.
Shalimar: yeah I know, sometimes I feel like I am the only one who likes this perfume around here. But this perfumes has a unique scent. A scent that tells its own tale and has a mind of its own. It is sexy when it wants, warm, distant, inviting, prohibiting, it is all and nothing. When I use it I feel like I am saying: This is me, I am here can't you feel it yet.
Chanel No5: Well what can one say about that. It is the perfume that says "Life goes on, and so do I"
Must de Cartier: I like this perfume cause it is warm and powerful. I don't think it is a sexy perfumes though. I also love how it progresses on the skin. For me it is one of those power perfumes. That gives you warm tingly feelings.
Poison: and I mean the old one. The very first. I think this perfume is unparalleled. It is like Must de Cartier, warm and powerful, but it is sooo sexy. It is the perfume that makes me imagine nightlife, but in a good way.
Paris, Shalimar, No5, Must and Poison are old favorites. I loved them at first site and still do. My new trials are Juicy Couture and Viva la Juicy. I can't say that they create any deep feelings or thoughts but despite the fact that one is flowery and the other is more fruity, and I like both, they both conjure those images of being "Elegantly Flirty" and I like that. There is an art to flirting with class and those two from Juicy Couture, seem to portray that image.
So yeah I will be enjoying my new collection of perfumes for a while, and I might decide at some other point to share more Perfume thoughts with you. I might even tell you my ultimate favorite.... shh
After a longer than I liked wait, I splurged on a perfumes from wholesalers, and I got me a bunch of new and old favorites. While trying them I noticed that each one makes me feel a different way, and creates certain feelings and images in my head. So I thought I'd write this down.
Quelque Fleurs: this is my first time using this old perfumes. I always admired it but form a distance. This time I decided to get it. And when I am using I feel relaxed and expensive. Yeah, it makes me feel like a posh Parisian lady who wears classic outfits, likes to slightly over do it with accessories, but gets away with it. But this lady is also warm, and romantic. It is a scent that invites you to come closer, and I will whisper something nice in your ear.
Paris: I always seem to get nostalgic for this perfumes during the winter months. It is not so cold around here that is for sure, but when the weather gets cooler during those months, the smell of winter is in the air, and it is then that I miss and feel like I want to use this perfume. And when I use it, I imagine winter in Paris, the wet floor in the Champs-Elysees, the bare trees and the sizzle of soft rain.
Shalimar: yeah I know, sometimes I feel like I am the only one who likes this perfume around here. But this perfumes has a unique scent. A scent that tells its own tale and has a mind of its own. It is sexy when it wants, warm, distant, inviting, prohibiting, it is all and nothing. When I use it I feel like I am saying: This is me, I am here can't you feel it yet.
Chanel No5: Well what can one say about that. It is the perfume that says "Life goes on, and so do I"
Must de Cartier: I like this perfume cause it is warm and powerful. I don't think it is a sexy perfumes though. I also love how it progresses on the skin. For me it is one of those power perfumes. That gives you warm tingly feelings.
Poison: and I mean the old one. The very first. I think this perfume is unparalleled. It is like Must de Cartier, warm and powerful, but it is sooo sexy. It is the perfume that makes me imagine nightlife, but in a good way.
Paris, Shalimar, No5, Must and Poison are old favorites. I loved them at first site and still do. My new trials are Juicy Couture and Viva la Juicy. I can't say that they create any deep feelings or thoughts but despite the fact that one is flowery and the other is more fruity, and I like both, they both conjure those images of being "Elegantly Flirty" and I like that. There is an art to flirting with class and those two from Juicy Couture, seem to portray that image.
So yeah I will be enjoying my new collection of perfumes for a while, and I might decide at some other point to share more Perfume thoughts with you. I might even tell you my ultimate favorite.... shh
Here I am
So my 6 years old and 4 plus years old are in school routine now. Unfortunately they are not loving it all that much, but it must be.
I have at home my 2 years old keeping me company.
But basically we settled into a nice routine of waking up early, even on weekends. I do my shopping a couple of times a weeks while the girls are at school. We take them for eating out once a week and playing somewhere once.
Life seems to be taking a nice pattern. And when I am not being an idiot and go to be early enough sleep I really enjoy my day.
I have started taking better care of myself; yoga my favorite sport and trying to make better food choices, I am not targeting weight loss as of yet, just a healthier me. Since I started taking vitamin B complex and Osteocare daily in addition to my regular multi vitamins I have been feeling much better.
Ok a little incident that happened today with my KG girl. At her school they started selling them sandwiches at the beginning of this year, that is why I stopped giving her one from home. The last few days after Hajj break she has been asking me to send a sandwich with her, and I ignored cos I though she is just being silly. Today she went to school crying because she wanted a home sandwitch and was insisting that they are usually late giving them their food at school and that there is not more shop there to buy from. So I called the school and as it turns out she is right. So I sent her a sandwich and a Croissant, she loves those and I wanted to make it up to her. But in the half hour when I was waiting for the croissant to get here an the chauffeur to take her food to her, was a very nervous anxious time for me, I felt real chest pains during. Just thinking that my little girl is not getting the food she wants, or that she has been feeling down because she is not eating what she wants.
But this got me thinking about all the parents in this world with children they can't feed. How horrible they must feel to see the hunger and need in their babies eyes and not be able to do anything about. How horrible. If i where to erase anything off the face of this planet it would be poverty, time and time again.
I have at home my 2 years old keeping me company.
But basically we settled into a nice routine of waking up early, even on weekends. I do my shopping a couple of times a weeks while the girls are at school. We take them for eating out once a week and playing somewhere once.
Life seems to be taking a nice pattern. And when I am not being an idiot and go to be early enough sleep I really enjoy my day.
I have started taking better care of myself; yoga my favorite sport and trying to make better food choices, I am not targeting weight loss as of yet, just a healthier me. Since I started taking vitamin B complex and Osteocare daily in addition to my regular multi vitamins I have been feeling much better.
Ok a little incident that happened today with my KG girl. At her school they started selling them sandwiches at the beginning of this year, that is why I stopped giving her one from home. The last few days after Hajj break she has been asking me to send a sandwich with her, and I ignored cos I though she is just being silly. Today she went to school crying because she wanted a home sandwitch and was insisting that they are usually late giving them their food at school and that there is not more shop there to buy from. So I called the school and as it turns out she is right. So I sent her a sandwich and a Croissant, she loves those and I wanted to make it up to her. But in the half hour when I was waiting for the croissant to get here an the chauffeur to take her food to her, was a very nervous anxious time for me, I felt real chest pains during. Just thinking that my little girl is not getting the food she wants, or that she has been feeling down because she is not eating what she wants.
But this got me thinking about all the parents in this world with children they can't feed. How horrible they must feel to see the hunger and need in their babies eyes and not be able to do anything about. How horrible. If i where to erase anything off the face of this planet it would be poverty, time and time again.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Random Thought
I find myself thinking in a certain pattern these days. And it goes like this: I see or hear something and have a certain opinion about it and then start wondering if this is how I really think or is it just me being "older" -you know being 38 and approaching the big 40- that thinks this way.
And then I stopped my self today. You do agree I am being ridiculous. Cos whatever I think or feel now, has to be because I am in my late thirties, wouldn't it be very strange to be 40 years old and think and feel like a twenty something.
So if I thought about something now differently than I did in my twenties, then that is me being normal. And my thoughts and feelings now are not any less real.
In my head I am always making a comparison between what I was then and what I am now. And to make things even more complicated I also try to figure out how the rest of the world would perceive my action or thought.
Mmm.... maybe I should just let the older me relax and the enjoy some of the liberties that come with growing older.
And then I stopped my self today. You do agree I am being ridiculous. Cos whatever I think or feel now, has to be because I am in my late thirties, wouldn't it be very strange to be 40 years old and think and feel like a twenty something.
So if I thought about something now differently than I did in my twenties, then that is me being normal. And my thoughts and feelings now are not any less real.
In my head I am always making a comparison between what I was then and what I am now. And to make things even more complicated I also try to figure out how the rest of the world would perceive my action or thought.
Mmm.... maybe I should just let the older me relax and the enjoy some of the liberties that come with growing older.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Brief of events
I will give you a brief of what went on in my life the last few months:
- Got my first ever ID card, government issued that is, long explanation
- My 6 year old graduated kindergarten, I know I know "are you serious?" but they did have a ceremony!
- The search for a suitable private school ended by me finding one called "Children World School" that I just fell in love with and inshallah it is going to be great for my girls and I hope they will stay in it till they graduate highschool and go to uni.
So my tow girls are enrolled the 6 year old in this new school and the 4 year old in the same kindergarten her sister went to. I am so exited for both of them.
- Got busy after that organizing a trip to Europe for us and my parents and my hubbies nephew
- Took my little girls and mum and sister to the hair dresser where we had haircuts/trims and mum a hair dye, right before our trip
- Went to the trip to Disneyland paris, then Geneva, then Paris
- Got back home and after a week girls got sick
- Ramadan started and girls got sick again, which turned out to be Virus H1N1!!!
- Eid came and went
- I decided to start wearing hijab
- After a period of feeling unsettled and a bit unhappy, I am back to my old satisfied self. I am very comfortable and relaxed most of the time now, I am not sure what caused my restlessness and I am not sure what helped ease it up.
- We went a couple of time to our usual beach resort
- My 2 years old got her scheduled vaccinations
- Just yesterday took my girls to have their pictures taken for school documents and took the chance to take a photo with them.
Ok so that is it so far.
Hair brief in another post.
- Got my first ever ID card, government issued that is, long explanation
- My 6 year old graduated kindergarten, I know I know "are you serious?" but they did have a ceremony!
- The search for a suitable private school ended by me finding one called "Children World School" that I just fell in love with and inshallah it is going to be great for my girls and I hope they will stay in it till they graduate highschool and go to uni.
So my tow girls are enrolled the 6 year old in this new school and the 4 year old in the same kindergarten her sister went to. I am so exited for both of them.
- Got busy after that organizing a trip to Europe for us and my parents and my hubbies nephew
- Took my little girls and mum and sister to the hair dresser where we had haircuts/trims and mum a hair dye, right before our trip
- Went to the trip to Disneyland paris, then Geneva, then Paris
- Got back home and after a week girls got sick
- Ramadan started and girls got sick again, which turned out to be Virus H1N1!!!
- Eid came and went
- I decided to start wearing hijab
- After a period of feeling unsettled and a bit unhappy, I am back to my old satisfied self. I am very comfortable and relaxed most of the time now, I am not sure what caused my restlessness and I am not sure what helped ease it up.
- We went a couple of time to our usual beach resort
- My 2 years old got her scheduled vaccinations
- Just yesterday took my girls to have their pictures taken for school documents and took the chance to take a photo with them.
Ok so that is it so far.
Hair brief in another post.
Friday, October 02, 2009
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