I used up all my minutes for this month so I was driving like a maniac and I had to push my way into our building just to make it on time.

I had to sign up with Facebook just to see what it’s all about. I still don’t know how it works but I did find a couple of my highschool classmates, which is so great but what’s next?

At last co-ops are selling the economy diaper packs!

Nurseries I checked out in the past couple of days but haven’t mentioned them in my previous posts were:

1. Bloomingdales - Dasmah, tel: 2544042 (Can’t say much because I couldn’t look around and classes were full anyways, but it’s location is a problem too)

2. Mortaqa - Rawda, tel: 2540237/8 (Loved it but it’s location is a problem again though it’s my best option now)

3. Bambino - Rawda, tel: 2521961 (Didn’t like it)

4. Al-Rashid - Just called them up now but I didn’t like their location, tel: 2548401/2

5. The English Bilingual Nursery - Rumaithiya, tel: 5618197-5618198 (Didn’t like it)

6. Gulf Montessori - Salwa, tel: 5650125 (Great location but classes were full so I didn’t look around, plus they were way too expensive)

7. Little House - Surra, tel: 5513468 (Didn’t like it)

8. Little me - Jabriya tel: 5340304 (Not bad, but the traffic will give me a hard time)

9. Al-Bashayer - Hateen tel: 6179900 (Didn’t like it and I’ll have to say why too. A kid was playing with the electricity socket and no body did anything about it)

10. There was another nursery in Mishref that I checked out yesterday, didn’t get their details but when I do I’ll post them right away, though I didn’t like it. It felt like a maze! Okay, it’s called Namothijiya, got thier number (tel: 7796113)

11. The English French Nursery - Mishref tel: 5394060 (They had Russian teachers for teaching English!)

One thing I had to add to this post is that yesterday I checked out Al-Burooj for the second time and even my sister-in-law dropped by earlier on the day. Both of us agreed that the place looked very nice and most importantly very clean but there was one thing we were very skeptical about, it’s whether kids would really learn anything or not. For now I don’t mind but later I’d want him to learn new things so I’m not sure on what I should base my decision now. It’s either I go for a nursery I know will benefit my son or just opt for a location that’s close to home. Two things that will always affect my decision at the end.

Note: if I do check out some more I’ll just update on this list.

Related posts: (Afnan Nursery, Kids World & Finding Nurseries)

I wasn’t so sure when I thought Hassan was over his fears of getting a haircut when I took him last time to be specific on 18th/08/07. But I’m so proud to say that he’s so over the haircut-crying phase, didn’t shed a tear he just sat there watching Barney and with that being mentioned, my whole family are starting to complain about Barney. My mom is trying her best to find other shows for him lol. 

I can’t even get Barney’s songs out of my head. One particular song though that I can’t get out of my head and it goes like this over and over again in my head: “yumyum tortilla, yumyum pita bread, yumyum bagel, yumyum white bread, yumyum poppernickle (opps I mean pumpernickle), poppernickle pumpernickle bread, where’s my poppernickle pumpernickle?” (Thanks Ali) The more I think about this song the more I feel hungry!

What matters more now is that I got an early b-day gift which arrived sometime last week and it’s my first IBM laptop, yay! I’ve hadlike two other laptops before but both were not mine, the first was my dad’s and the second was Rami’s, so now I really have one all for myself. My iPod nano arrived the day before yesterday and it’s my first too. I’m not sure if this is another birthday gift from Rami and so far I like both gifts very much.

Just to make some points clear for everyone, though I’m not a scholar to know for sure, I’m just using my common sense here:

How could spraying perfume break your fast or applying make-up? Who ever came up with that should really consider the idea again because my co-workers always point out that I’ll break my fast if I use perfume. I keep telling them that this doesn’t make sense at all. 

Say if you were walking and you inhaled car fumes, does that break your fast too? Well I hope not because you can’t control what you inhale and it’s not like you’re having a bite of anything. But smoking is a different issue because now it’s considered haram by so many Moslim scholars and we all know why, though if you inhaled it accidentally I don’t believe it would break your fast.

Many mothers who see my kid in my arms would go “don’t carry him, then he’ll get used to that!” or “you still didn’t cut him off his passie?” as if they’re trying to say ‘what a lazy mom am I! All very unnecessary comments and quite rude indeed if it’s followed by ‘what a lousy mom you are” because I’m not that lazy but I’m just taking my time at this, it’s just not easy. My son is not potty trained but I can afford diapers until he’s fully toilet trained, so why not and it’s not like I haven’t been working on it since he was born just like this lady.

Why some might think I’m not the best mom in the world?

• My son still shares the bed with us
• He’s very addicted to his passie but good thing he weaned himself off the bottle
• He’s still not potty trained, instead I’ve worked on toilet training
• He loves to be held at all times. People around me are always giving me advice that I shouldn’t be carrying my baby at all times, well how bad is it really? It was the only thing that consoled him while he was little

Is that such a bad thing? I mean all the things above are typical things society inflicts on moms just to make life more difficult on them, as if it weren’t!