There's Ease After Every Hardship.

Assalaamu'alaikum wr.wb. to my Muslim readers, and Hey to the rest :)

Haven't bothered to daily or even weekly blog my happenings. Right now, at the moment, my son has a bad fever for the past 24hours, and if it continues to go on i'm takinghim to the doctor. His temperature has been high as 40.2 degrees C. So you can imagine how FREAKED OUT I was. A doctor HAS seen him during a house call last night, and he prescribed Bactrim and Demazin. He says that my baby has an infection.

If you saw how he looked last night, your mouth would've formed a really big "O" shape. My mother called, 2 nights ago, and I told her about Abdurrahman's state. She came over last night with my brother and just held Abdurrahman until she left.

Didn't sleep a wink last night! I was staying up all night placing a luke-warm face washer on his head to keep his temperature down. I couldn't fall asleep easily this time, usually I can. But then at 3am my body gave up and just shut down. The trip to sleepy land didn't last long though, I woke up at 5am and haven't gone back to sleep since.

Alhamdulillah, Abdurrahman's temperature has gone down to the 37.9 degrees C range. I'm so happy to see him act his curious self again. Seriously, I was dead worried that he wouldn't make it through the night. I prayed and cried and asked My Creator to restore my baby's health, if it is His Will.

I'm really grateful to Allah to see him laughing, smiling, playing, and dancing again.

Here he is watching Sesame Street:


~Wassalaamu'alaikum wr.wb

~Peace.

Oh, The Relief!

Hey! How are my favourite people?!

Do I have any though? *shrugs*

I have finally completed a semester full of deadlines, pressure, expectations & snotty know-it-all first year Nursing students. Some people just don't know what they're in for if they think they'll fly through this course without sincere, hard work. Like I said, blardy snotty first year students (not all of them).

I now know the pressure that studying mums get when they go through balancing uni & family life, especially for those who've got more than 1 child. During the assignments fiasco I couldn't have my 17-month-old son in the room with me. I don't have any other rooms because I don't own a house and the room that I sleep is the only place where I can study. "OH ALLAH, PLEASE PROVIDE ME A HOUSE IN THIS WORLD, AND PROVIDE ME A PALACE IN JANNAH, AMIN."

Thanks to Allah, I felt good doing my first exam. Except for 2 questions that I KNOW I got wrong. What the heck is a "Reticular Formation" and "Spermatogonia"?! I know that it was something with the brain and the sperm. That's all! Alhamdulillah, there was a diagram of the heart we had to label. I was so grateful that I stayed up the night before, going into detail about the heart. I was like "WOOOHOOO!!! I see a heart diagram!!"

As for the 2nd exam, which was on last Thursday the 14/06/07. It was 100 multiple choice questions and 20 true-or-false questions. I LOVE those types of exams.

Now that I've done my exams I've got to think about more uni stuff. Like, what subjects to pick for next semester; yes, I'm planning to stay put with part-time studying - I've realised I work better that way with a child and all. Alhamdulillah, I'm happy with how I dealt with uni this semester; if I kick it up a notch next sem, inshallah I'll be at my best.

Well, that's just an update so far. Oh! A shout-out to Nafeesa: when are you available? 'Cuz I'd love to catch up @ a Cafe or anything. Let me know~

~Peace.

Boldness.

I'm currently enjoying the tasty flavour of Heaven Chocolate truffles.....................yehh................i'm a choc-a-holic. I don't know what girl isn't one.



Guess what. I'VE SHAVEN MY HEAD, BOLD!

















Nah....just kidding. I didn't go bold, but my now-17-month-old son has.



Oh lookie here, he's 17 months today, alhamdulillah!!



Anyway, Robbie & I were contemplating on shaving Abdurrahman's hair. I was like "Let's do it! We should've done it when he was a baby". And so we decided to go ahead with it. It was the right timing too, because we we're on our way to my mum's house and my brother's pretty good at cutting guys' hairs, with the shaver. Boy, was I excited!!!



When I told my mum she was like "Do it after the wedding, not now". There's an upcoming wedding inshallah, one of Robbie's relatives who's gottenn married in Indonesia and now having her 2nd wedding here. Me: "Mum, it'll be cool for the wedding, he's gonna look so HOT!". That's exactly how he looks now...lol.

Before shot
Now, compare it to this:
After shot

BIG change huh?!
This is what happened:
He's not scared, just apprehensive

And then:
Bad boy

That was the highlight of my Saturday. Hehehe. Until next time,

~Peace.