Her book - 365 days with the Prophet Muhammad

First i want to review this book of hers that we havent finished it yet even though we bought this last year!

Reason being, I told Nasya that we will read this together, because I need a refresh knowledge and I need to be by her side in case she needs any more deeper information while reading.

Here is the contents. Basically how you need to do it is 1 story a day but Nasya sometimes want to read 2-3 stories in a day, which we obliged. 

 

For me the story is short, simple and straight forward for a kid to understand.

Usually after we finish a story we would discuss the morale behind, and you know what kind of benefits you will get by reading this to your child. Please, please instill the love of prophet to them so that they know and follow the right attitudes and be proud of this great man in Islam.

Readers

We are readers. We read books quite a lot because we love it. Now im trying to make sure i read Quran as much as I read other books so that we got the pahala and try to share the learning behind here for me to remember and for whoever still reading this blog 😅

Baby Nuha

Nuha is the name we chosed for her. Basically because of the meaning of the name, the simplicity and thats it!

There was a bit drama towards the operation day. I felt the contractions few days before but not sure if that was contractions or not, since when i had nasya, it was a planned csect with no contractions whatsoever.

This one totally different.

We net dr marlik and he said heyy u got contractions already lah! We were like ohhhh okay..with so many questions marks. And i already feel the pressure down there and it made me hard to walk even. During the scan somehow a cord was around her neck. Told my mom and she was panic and asked me to tell my dr to have csect on the same day. Panic 1000times!

Anyway, the csect was set on 30th sept, and here we are, happy with the little one! So so happy that we feel like pinching her cheeks every single seconds! Cannot believe Allah grant me this beautiful child of ours despite my laziness of praying or reciting quran. Alhamdulillah...

Hello, im back and pregnant!

Hello, im back and yes im pregnant. 3 months plus to be exact for now. 

And since I am not pregnant for the past 6 years, i totally forgot how does it feel. 

The only thing i dont miss much is the nausea and all day sickness that i have now.

And guess what, i think i want to cloth diapering my baby later on insyaAllah but the information is overwhelmed! But i know i have to start now seeing that my work calendar is damn busy.

Any of you is on cloth diaper mama? Care to share your tips and tricks and the basic cloth diaper should I own as starter so that I can start saving?

Of the extra classes

I once read a comment from other people's instagram that some parents nowadays sent kids to extra classes that they (parents) couldn't attend they were small.

Yes. No.

Its a no for me, but my question is why not?

My husband always wanted Nasya to join any drama class because of her non stop talking habit. He was thinking why not channeling those energy to a good place where she can interact with other kids not only within her comfort zone (teachers, friends and relatives)?

We founded this one place in PJ last year. I was contemplating to whether continue this year or not, because the traveling is quite tiring for all of us. but seeing her happy changes everything. She wanted to stay longer in the class so usually my husband and myself will pray at nearby mosque and sit in the car for an extra 30 minutes, but still she pulled her long face when I picked her up.

After drama class, usually she will sit at this one table and pretend to play chess with whoever sitting nearby the desk. She knows the knight, king, queen, pawn..I don't know how she knows that. So I asked her teacher, if she can try the chess trial class? And the class is just before the drama class. Great, so we can go somewhere else longer while she is in the class, if only she thinks she wanted to proceed with it.

Sunday, we enrolled her this new archery class. I wanted her to join this since last year. This is the reason, for the past 4-5 months, Nasya has this interest of making her bow and arrow. Those who have been following my instagram can see that she made her own bow using a tree stick and my elastic thread and made arrow using her pencil, and it shoots. Really shoots.

So, I bought a bow an arrow toy from Etsy all the way from US. Bought for myself too since I was on the Arrow mode that time and just watched Hobbit and pretending I were the Elf :p

Ever since we got the package, she been playing with it for at least 1 hour a day. We shoot on polisterine inside the house, and keep picking up the arrows when we shot off target, when we played outside. Mann, this is tiring! Really sweats I tell you.

So I dont agree when that person said parents sent kids because they couldnt go to this classes when they were small. Be a parent, identify your child's strength and act! If you know they have the strength, do you think she/he should just play ipad, watch tv or do nothing? Why don't you encourage them and who knows they can excell better and have a different ambition than doctor, engineer and what not? Why we want to be the same when you can be different in a better way?

Unless, if your kid does not have the interest example in music, but you sent her for Piano lessons for the sake you love Piano, then, you fall in the second category. I know I am not.

That, is my humble opinion. :)

Nasya's school preparation

In 2 days Nasya going to the real school or we call it big school. We basically know basic in preparing school stuff. Usually it is based on our past experiences and plus minus Nasya's kindy preparation.

So I have been sms-ing Nasya's principal to ask more questions like how many books they have? How big/small school bag should I buy, things like that.





We did some shopping, and in between we inserted some tips on how to survive the big school to her. I told Nasya, dont scared to be different. Dont scared if people dont like you. You know, this kids sometimes they do comparison and being the only child, we hardly play this comparison games because we always stress that other people is different, so dont be other people. Be yourself. This is sort of reminder for us too for not comparing myself to others.

One day, I heard this dad who also did some shopping with the family. The teenage girl wanted the school bag which maybe too expensive for the dad. So the dad say something harsh for me, but my dad used to say the same to me when I was small. I dont know whether that makes me today or that what doesnt make me better. But I tried to not say those to Nasya.

Maybe it is common to others but I dont think the "going to school" vibes should be like that.

Nasya being Nasya still in her imaginary world where life is all sweet like candy and will flows according to her plan. Im giving her time for her to adjust to the new schood, and hopefully she will adapt well, make new friends and love it as the previous kindy.

Gone and stay

My grandma passed away last week. Khamis at 11pm last week. Its kinda expected but still sad. She was weak and one by one of her organ are not functioning. One of my aunties said, thats how Allah cleanse her sins insyaallah, amin.

So this time around I didnt cry much. Because it is expected. Mom and lil sister keeps smsing me few times since Monday till Thursday morning last week about her progress and because i have that Interview I didnt go back hometown to visit. But I did visit her everyday when she was admitted here in SJMC.

So i drove back to kampung with nasya alone becoz my husband was tight and ot some presentation at the ministry officez and when i was at the funeral, a colleague called me due to some issue of the items im supporting hehehe not his fault bexacause he didnt know.

That saturday is Nasya's birthday. Was contemplating whether to celebrate or not and my mom being a grandma, she said to buy a cake for her grand daughter. I asked a cousin to help me buy the cake as im running some errandsf for the tahlil later that afternoon.

So grandma is gone. Sad but true. Nasya now realised that every living thing will eventually die regardless age and condition. So every day before sleep i told
nasya "do good things because of Allah" hope she instills this deep in her heart and understand this better when she grows up.