The Story Of Us

1. What is your favorite color?  Silver 2. What is your favorite toy/game?  Codenames 3. What is your favorite fruit? Strawberries and Star Fruit 4. What is your favorite food?  Puff Pastry 5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Ben and Jerry's Mint Oreo 6. What is your favorite movie? None 7. What is your favorite tv show? Naruto 8. What is your favorite animal?  Axolotl 9. What is your favorite song?  Bones by Imagine Dragons  10. What is your favorite book? Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier 11. Who is your best friend?  Mufaddal 12. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Basketball 13. What do you want to be when you grow up?  Basketball Player 14. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy? Watching Instagram reels in bed 15. What is your favorite thing to do with baba? Ski with him 16. What is your favorite thing to do with D?  Play games with him 17. What makes you feel sad? when I don't get screen time 18. What makes you feel happy? winning a basketball game

Happy February! As well as a Happy Valentines Day for those celebrating.. no pressure.  February is usually a big month for us.. as M and I both get a little older. My birthday was last Sunday (had a friends baby's first birthday to attend) and his was on Monday so we celebrated on Saturday. We treated ourselves to a Korean spa.  This was our first time doing something like this. It was a very unique experience. We went to gender separated bathhouses where clothes we not permitted. I kept my towel close by. After a good soak we had booked a body scrub and a scrub it was.. bye bye epidermis. After the scrub we were given a uniform to wear and were reunited in the sauna area. They had 6 igloo like dry sauna's of varying temperatures and special qualities to sweat in and then I final ice cave to seal all those pores. Afterwards we went to a traditional Pakistani restaurant to have chaat (a combination of chickpeas, onions, tomatoes, mint and cilantro chutney, tamarind chutney and

And just like that H turned 8. We started the morning with homemade candy waffles and ended the days with a raspberry mousse cake. This child of mine is oddly not a big fan of chocolaty desserts.. sigh. Otherwise it was a pretty normal day.. we had come back from a trip the day prior so we all got covid tests and stayed home.  This weekend though we had a birthday party for him. Last year we had refrained, being in the thick of the pandemic. This year with them already going to school and participating in sports etc we decided it would be fine to have a small party. We opted to not have it in our home. We hosted it at Knockerballs, its a cool indoor play area with life sized games like Human Foosball and Hungry Hungry Humans.. D had attended a few birthday parties there and I always thought it was such a fun place. The entire space was booked for us which made it feel safer. I used Paperless Post to send out the invites. Mainly because I did a sponsored post for them a couple of year

H turned seven at the start of the year.. and with the current state of things there wasn't much of our usual celebrations. We settled for take out, a movie and a slice of his currently favorite cheesecake. Key Lime.  1. What is your favorite color? Aqua 2. What is your favorite toy?  Stomp Rocket 3. What is your favorite fruit?  Raspberries 4. What is your favorite food?  Any thing meat!  5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Cookie Monster 7. What is your favorite tv show?  Buddy Fight 8. What is your favorite animal?  Sabertooth Tiger 9. What is your favorite song? Don't Stop Believing by Journey (he likes the Glee version) 10. What is your favorite book?  Harry Potter 11. Who is your best friend? - 12. What is your favorite game? Munchkin (it's an insane role playing game meant for way older kids) 13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play football 14. What do you want to be when you grow up? Illustrator 15. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy?  H

        1. What is your favorite color? Red 2. What is your favorite toy/game? Roblox 3. What is your favorite fruit?  Raspberries 4. What is your favorite food? Pasta 5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?  Cookies and Cream 7a. What is your favorite tv show? Pokemon 7b.Favorite Movie? Bruce Almighty 8. What is your favorite animal?  Gorilla  9. What is your favorite song? Bad Guy by Billie Eilish  10. What is your favorite book? The Percy Jackson series 11. Who is your best friend? H.C and AQ 12. What is your favorite city/country?  Budapest 13. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play Cricket and Basketball 14. What do you want to be when you grow up?  Dentist 15. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy? Playing board games 16. What is your favorite thing to do with baba? playing cricket and tennis 17. What is your favorite thing to do with Hasan? Watching videos 18. What makes you feel sad? Mummy Baba screaming at me 19. What makes you feel happy? Movie nights and

1. What is your favorite color? Turquoise 2. What is your favorite toy? Transformers 3. What is your favorite fruit? Raspberries 4. What is your favorite food? Biryani (meat and rice dish) 5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Mint 7. What is your favorite tv show? Denis the Menace (did you know there is a Scottish version of it? That's the one he watches) 8. What is your favorite animal? Sabertooth Tiger 9. What is your favorite song? Old Time Road by Lil Nas X 10. What is your favorite book? Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea by Ben Clanton (it's so cute, I'd highly recommend it!) 11. Who is your best friend? Nicholas D 12. What is your favorite game? Quest for Gold  13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Go on the swings 14. What do you want to be when you grow up? Race Car Driver 15. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy? Help cook 16. What is your favorite thing to do with baba? Play xbox (we finally caved and bought them one :( ) 17. Wha

Last week M and I celebrated our birthdays. The last few years we have managed to find away to getaway.. even if for only a night. Three years ago we went to a BnB in New Jersey  then we went to Vegas  and last year we spent a night in New York . This year there is no getaway but no worries because we have a whole week of celebrating to do. M started a little early with a major accomplishment.. on January 31st a whole week before he turned the big 4 oh he was at the New York Stock Exchange for the ringing of the opening bell. And he met Katrina Adams the CEO of USTA (tennis association) :D So proud of him! On Saturday, in the afternoon we headed to the city (New York) and walked around a bit.. thankfully it wasn't too cold. We went to Wagamama for an early dinner. It was our first time there and we will so definitely be going there again.. the food was so good. We wanted to try the matcha taro swirl soft serve at Besfren but their ice cream machine was brok

1. What is your favorite color? Red 2. What is your favorite toy? Magformers 3. What is your favorite fruit? All of them. 4. What is your favorite food? Cheddar Bunnies and Jello 5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla 7. What is your favorite tv show? Animal Mechanimals 8. What is your favorite animal? Lions, Tigers and Giraffes 9. What is your favorite song? Lakari ki kathi (old hindi song I used to sing to him at bedtime) 10. What is your favorite book? The Bath Monster by Colin Boyd 11. Who is your best friend? Isha 12. What is your favorite game? Busytown 13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Snow tubing in our backyard 14. What do you want to be when you grow up? Whatever my dad does. 15. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy? cook 16. What is your favorite thing to do with baba? Make things with the magformers 17. What is your favorite thing to do with Daanyal? play with him in the basement 18. What makes you feel

1. What is your favorite color? Gold 2. What is your favorite toy/game?  Trouble 3. What is your favorite fruit?  Raspberries  4. What is your favorite food?  Pizza 5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?  Blue Ribbon Strawberry 7a. What is your favorite tv show?  Odd Squad 7b. Favorite Movie  Captain Underpants 8. What is your favorite animal?  Rabbit 9.What is your favorite city/country?  Myrtle Beach 10. What is your favorite song?  All About the Bass - Megan Trainer (lol) 11. What is your favorite book?  Curious George - Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld 12. Who is your best friend?  Hussein C and AQ 13. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Playing Tennis 14. What do you want to be when you grow up?  Astronaut 15. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy?  Playing board games 16. What is your favorite thing to do with baba?  Playing board games 17. What is your favorite thing to do with H?  playing 18. What makes you feel sad?  When a toy gets lost 19. Wh

For the last 2 years D has wanted to go parasailing.. the first year he was to small and the last it was too windy and our trip got canceled. So when his birthday came around   we decided to take him along with two of his best friends parasailing.                            Etsy             Instagram             Twitter             Bloglovin   

I am celebrating my birthday today and M tomorrow.. wohoo. We may get a cake between the two of us that H will most probably cut for us and insist we sing Happy Birthday to him because in reality it's his birthday.. lol. When we first got married we would start celebrating the Friday night closest to our birthday and it would go on till the end of the weekend.. there was less celebrating once we had kids. Last year my mother was visiting around the time and we decided to change things up and went away to a local bed and breakfast for the night. This year we're hoping to do something similar but for longer than just the night and farther than just a drive away. SO EXCITED!!! I wanted to share some cute and funny cards I found online.. any of you still give greeting cards?   Scribbler   Wit and Whistle   Finch and the Fallow   Finch and the Fallow   Sioux Alice   Knotty Cards and here's a glimpse of the card D made for M

1. What is your favorite color? Purple 2. What is your favorite toy? Race Face Robot Game 3. What is your favorite fruit? Oranges 4. What is your favorite food? Pizza 5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla with Rainbow Sprinkles on a Cone 7a. What is your favorite tv show? Backyardagins 7b. Favorite Movie Lightening McQueen 8. What is your favorite animal? n/a 9. What is your favorite song? Fight Song - Rachel Platten 10. What is your favorite book? I Love My Hat   by Douglas Florian 11. Who is your best friend? Hussein C 12. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Playing on the slide 13. What do you want to be when you grow up? Astronaut 14. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy? Playing board games 15. What is your favorite thing to do with baba? Playing foosbal 16. What is your favorite thing to do with H? Bath Time 17. What makes you feel sad? When grandparents leave 18. What makes you feel happy? When it's my birthday 19. What wa

Boy am I late on this post! So late we've left his birthday month behind us and wondered into the end of M and my birthday month.. For now let's just pretend it's still January for a moment, shall we? What a way to start a year right? It was two years ago.. sitting in a Thai restaurant with our friends on New Year's night with the contractions began.. and 35 hours.. yes 35 hours later and 11 days early we welcomed H into the world.. We thought we'd celebrate with D and I getting together and baking him a cake..the last time D and I had baked a cake was when D turned 16 months . I would have enlisted H's help... but H is less predictable in the kitchen.. eek! I didn't want to make a giant cake for just the few of us. So instead I bought a cake mix and halved it.. and both store frosting as well.. I felt a bit bad not doing it from scratch.. but I sprained my ankle and I needed an easy solution.. yum yum! and then with the leftover