Sayang Anne

Today being Friday n Mıstık not in İstanbul made it necessary for baddin to skip his friday prayer...I was in the kitchen..cooking.... i went into the living room only to be told...

*anne lutfen gider mısın?*

(anne, can u please go)

That would only mean one thing.... he was up to something naughty. He didnt want me around. I went into the kitchen of course, curious... But hey! even a young kid needs a space of his own eh?... 5 minutes later, i quietly entered the living room again... only to find him..... like this...

sleeping ...
with his face n ears all red..
anak baba dia la katakan... cepat betul muka merah...

poor baddin..


last week n this week had been 2 very tiring weeks for me... i just simply forgot that whatever i did,wherever i went... i dragged him along too... there is a limit to how much a 5 year old can take...

Staying at home today, i am feeling xtremely tired as well... he no different..
unless he is sick, he practically never sleep during the day...
today is an exception.. he fell asleep at 1 pm... only to wake up at 4.30pm.. when hatice got back from school...these 2 weeks had taken their tolls on him...

yesterday i went to a shop.... the lady working in the shop noticed baddin... she asked me.. *bu sizin mı?* (is this urs?)...when i said yes... she looked at brown skin me and then she looked at the flaming red faced fair skin baddin... she didnt say anything... i left the shop to leave her with her own conclusions ..i stop to care about what people think of me...

ur choice..

am i a maid?

or am i a babysitter?

hahaha

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HAVE A NİCE WEEKEND EVERYONE!

He had fun..i think..

Life is springing out of what used to be bare sticks of the tree...a clear indication that spring is creeping slowly into life..Just imagine these fowers will turn into green leaves... MasyaAllah.. how wonderful Allah's creation, isnt it?

Cant say the same for my tem though.. cant say that he is springing into life much..he just recovered from the bug 3 days ago.. n AGAİN.. another bug... another virus caught him again..bad sore throat.. high fever particularly last night.. high fever every 2 hours....it is enough to worry me though it is obvious.. it is that normal virus that has been making rounds on everyone..The kids slept late too last night... perhaps in their own way.. worried of their baba's health..

I hope he will be better soon..my poor dearest tem..

I am... exhausted.. i didnt really sleep last night.. the house was a mess... i did some cleaning.. bla bla bla.. n guess what he said to me? he said..

*what a wonderful sunny day! why dont u bring baddin to the children's playground?*

.. i wanted to say..

*what???? i am exhausted.. i dont wanna go..i have loads of things to do here..*..

what i would have said (hehehe) ..i swallowed inside ..not really wanting to increase his stress level.. coz i know he would insist on it.. n i would refuse n then it would turn into a fight.... i am an expert in making him go crazy hehehe..later...not today..he's sick remember?*

And so.. mother n son..walked to the playground.. He was totally excited but he tried not to show it... i brought along his shovels n what not... the day was not so cold as well..

I noticed he forgot the rules of playing in the playground.. u see.. at this playground.. we mothers have these unspoken rules.. or culture..one very important rule is..

1. if u bring shovels n what not...if ur child is not playing n the stuffs r left on the sand.. other kids can play with it.... or they share playing.. this enhances the social skills of ur child as well teaching ur child the concept of sharing..

for the first 5 minutes.. i think he had forgotten that rule.. but after a while.. he started to bade by the rules n started to let other kids play with his things..

He was totally dirty by the time we went home.. sand all over... but i am glad that i had held my tongue.. n brought him there.. he had missed the place so much..

And guess what i discovered after we got back home from the playground.. see the picture below..

Between the green plant n the white n yellow gate..there is an empty space.. there should be a small gate there.. what happened was..somebody had stolen..yup.. u heard me right.. STOLEN that gate!! Oh gee.. what people would do for money!! how low can one get huh? it is sad indeed..

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Baddin..

İt is Tuesday.

He woke up this morning.. face still sleepy..with his slippers on his feet..walking towards us.. He saw hatice all ready..only a few minutes more before she was scheduled to leave for school..

Tears started falling from his eyes...crying loudly.. he said in turkish...

*Ablama birlikte kahvaltı yapmadım*
(I havent eaten my breakfast with my sister)

His crying continued..no matter how many times hatice hugged her.. or how many words of comfort she had uttered..his sadness too evident to be seen...tears still falling non stop from his eyes..

We looked from the window ..i tried to coax him to say *bye bye abla* as he always do..he refused.. too sad to stop crying..

I hugged him..i tried to comfort him....none too successful..he was still crying for his abla..saying that he has not eaten his breakfast together with his sister...repeatedly..

and then... as my last resort...i turned on the tv..the telletubbies was on..some kids were trying to do a big puzzle of some sort.. n bless him.. he stopped crying..

Alhamdulillah....better wake him up tomorrow morning together with his abla...else.. i might just have to face another crying child early in the morning hehehe :0)

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