update

Okay sorry that I haven't been the best blogger lately,,,life is moving at an immesurable speed and it is sooo hard for me to keep up with everything. I will attempt to catch you all up to speed.

General: well the house is coming along, today we recieved appliances. The town engineers came out and refused to give us occupancy but mohammad tells me that its not a big deal that we can still move in on saturday and have ameena start school. Apparently we are borrowing electricity from the neighbors and that will be enough to get us through. the outside isn't finished but the inside is good. We still haven't recieved the tanker, god knows when it will come. It has been delayed so many times. There is so much red tape concerning the tanker sometimes I wish we didn't do it. Mohammad is going crazy with all the stuff he has to deal with on a daily basis for the house. He spends every day there trying to get things done. He is sooo frusteraited that things aren't coming together like he likes. I swear me and him will never build from scratch again...well just buy things that others have gone through the hassle.

Me: I spend every day with the kids trying to entertain them. Its hard without a car, public libraries or parks but I try my best. Today we swan in the blow up pool in the veranda, played candy land and ameeena helped me bake a cake for dinner. Fasting this year has been a challange because of the long time and because it is so hot here. Every day is in the upper 80s to lower 90s. I drink a 2 liter in the am and a 2 liter in the pm but still feel thirsty almost all the time. Other than that I am trying to contain some sanity and sleep.

Ameena: well the big news for her is that she lost a tooth.....she feels like such a big girl and she put it under her pillow and got two dinars from the tooth fairy. Which she put in her collections for buy the very expensive stuffed tiger she saw at the store. She also went to the school to meet her teachers and pick out her uniform. It was a very big day, generally she was well behaved with the teachers. She has two teachers and two different classrooms half the day she spends in her english class with Miss Heba....who ameena adored and wanted to stay there forever. The other class is arabic with miss Eisha...which ameena threw blocks at because she was sooo frusteraited. You can only speak english in the english class and ameena hated that she couldn't understand the arabic. I hope they can handle her. We found out that he bus will come to our house at 645 in the morning!!! I don't think that ameena has been up that early before but well will have to start our day at 6am. wish me luck.

Ibraheem: is excited that ameena is going to school and he can have me to himself. Ameena went and spent the night with her cousins the other day and didn't come home till 1 pm. Ibraheem was so happy to have that time with mommmy. He has a new love for fire, and if you leave a lighter out he will attempt to see the "pretty." He of course enjoys his daily carebare watching and loves his cousin halla which he calls sweetie pie. He got a haircut and it was a disaster as he bucked and kicked the hairdresser...he didn't want to be there. Haircuts now will be handled at home where he can be easily distracted. He continues to be eaten up by the bugs....I guess he is just tooo sweet. his cousin othman thought that he would like a horse viewing and asked his friend to bring over his horse. Ibraheem in a usual way was happy to look but not touch. Ameena on the other hand pet the horse and then rode it for a while... she is soo daring.

well the next post should come from the house and hopefully I will have pictures. Pray for us that the boat willl come and mohammads stress level will decrease.

Take care everyone