Wednesday, Thursday, Friday...

Wednesday

Once every two months, as a treat, we take Yllac to either book or toy shopping. Just one book or toy. That's it. Believe me, we are trying to do this parenting thing to the best we can. Am pretty sure it's a tough call for a child just to pick one item. 

Thursday.

We also eat out once a week, mostly on a Thursday to celebrate the past hectic days. We also like to stay up late, watch movies to make up for those 7:30 pm  weekdays bedtime.  

And then after we fed ourselves, we go and feed the ducks. And that one turtle.

Friday...

Last Friday, we just stayed home. There's a Qatar Food Festival happening since last Wednesday, and Friday is a family day, so we were pretty sure that it's crazy out there if we go out. We'll end up miserable looking for parking space and of course the traffic....the traffic. 

Anyway, look at mah boy. Best 29 riyals I've ever spent on a toy!

Cleaning up is always a challenge.

The end.

How Do You Unwind?...

This is how I unwind:

• I paint my nails
• Read
• Orange juice
• Watch an episode of Friends or The Office
• Pray
• Pluck my eyebrows
• Alone time with Jayson

I can talk through and think logically after one or two of these things happen. No matter how frustrated I feel, It's so nice to have something to fall back on when anxiety or stress hits. I want you to know though that I always take it easy with my brows. 

love,

Denise

Rain...

Nope, there's not much of a drainage system in the middle east. If it rains, it will give you a pond. 

So gloomy here guys. It's been raining here for days. By this month of the year, it simply means summer is about to arrive. Yup. That's how it goes here. The rain signifies a change in weather. I remember last year, in the middle of a scorching day it started pouring for like five minutes. Everybody was just so happy, you can hear it all over the radio, it was festive really. All DJs are freaking about it. It's a sign they were all saying. Winter is here! Winter is here! Everybody can feel it. It was the most glorious 4 to 5 months of great weather in middle east. And then, this Sunday it rained. Summer is here, and some of us feel doomed. Am I grumpy or what? But let's focus on the rain for now. Because people here seems to enjoy it. Mostly by the locals. I've seen a lot of them walking on the street, just soaking the rain. Just walking under the drizzle, smiling and just enjoying it. So two days ago I asked Jayson to have our lunch out. But it's raining he said. So? This is the very last day of coolness here, let's have fun with it.  

Every time he sees this lion, he must pose and take a picture with it. 

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And hey hey hey, this is an outfit post too.

Yep!

So, i've been thinking. I've been formulating a certain no-brainer-look for work wear these days. And waaaahhhlahhhh!!!! as dumb as it looks, this is what i came up. Blazer. Shirt. Pants. Blazer. Shirt. Pants. Two minutes and am all dressed up. Is the point of a capsule to get you out of a rut, or to dig you deeper in your own rut? Because i like my rut. That's all am gonna say for now.  

The end. 

Cakes...

My birthday this year fell on a Sunday, which happens to be the first day of the week here. What fun! This year, Jayson and me took a different approach on surprising each other on our birthdays. I think I started it. I'm taking credit for that. I managed to surprise him on his birthday last January by giving him his presents 3 days before his birthday.  Man, the look on his face. He was so happy. And on the exact day of his birthday, I called him and asked him to just drop by on our favorite coffee shop, order a latte and cheese cake, I got the candles. It was Saturday evening, he was still in his office. How fun was that?

March 15, Sunday

As I've said before, my birthday was on a Sunday, the busiest and the most frantic day of the week. At the end of the day, all I wanted  was to collapse. On our way home Yllac fell asleep. Amazing! Peace and solitude before my own bedtime??? Birthday wish granted. I may be tired but verbally I am on fire. So Jayson let me talk while he made us some tea. So i talked and talked and talked. I have to say, today most especially, that I have the best, most supportive, and most wonderfully, frustratingly fantastic husband and i love, love, love him. Just like all the things I am crazy about, I sometimes get all grouchy at him, but really seriously, I am the lucky one to have him. So Jayson my love, thanks for choosing this wicked queen over other princesses.

On the following evening, Jayson one-upped me by actually getting my cake. And so we've managed to do a celebratory cake blowing with Yllac's help of course. It's always so so so fun with Yllac's help.

ladies and gentlemen, my son. 

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Cannot wait for 36th!