A visit to the park

Sometimes I'm amazed at how much roti expired bread I've accumulated in my fridge. So the other day, after pick up i take the kids to the park to feed the fish with out many packets of bread. There's lotsa fish that they breed in the lake and my kids live to see them flocking up to eat the bread. While doing this i will be telling them how Allah plan and make us be the one giving the fish rezki, how we should not throw our food, love for nature animal and stuff. Chewah, well its not that super spiritual or anything, very informal mommy talking to the kids. We always love our park trip.

Islamic lesson

Staying abroad, there is no luxury of islamic lesson being taught at school, there is no islamic kindergarten, islamic school in the afternoon. Furthermore the international school culture are different as well, very western way with their celebration easter, halloween, christmas and stuff to the point that i am not sure many kids knows thats most of those celebration are actually religious celebration not just seasonal. I have to do lots of explaining to Harith on this context, alhamdulillah due to early attempt at making him knows Allah and Islam he accepted them as second nature . This is what we want, in Malaysia, surrounded by saudara muslim, where everybody aroun you are muslim, it is easy to embrace the religion of islam within you. But in international community, we should be aware that such luxury dont exist. effort have to be made to make sure our children are a muslim body and soul. I taught Harith iqra' myself, hafal surah lazim and tauhid. We did them everyday after school. Most of the islamic knowledge lesson i did with him and uyay unformally, like talking bout Allah makes living things when we were out in the park, Allah make abah bought you the toy during shopping and stuff. I have children islamic CD, nasyid, doa and Iqra which are very catchy that i put on most of the time, this constant passive listening of zikir, nasyid and quran recital will be registered within their subconscious mind.

Harith solo mini house

Ummi is so proud of Harith today. He got a box and set out imagining a project on his own. He ask some of mine and my maid help but the ideas all came from him. He find a small box himself and color them to
Be a tv, a nice belt box to make sofa, a nice long box as dining table and put plate and flowers on them himself , later he colors the wall , imagining painting on the walls and some toys on the floor. Subhanallah Harith sayang , it is such a nice mini house. And i told him so :D