El Oweini's Life

It’s the Chinese New Year today. Most of my friends are celebrating it in the Philippines. Their lucky charms to attract good vibes for the year of the water dragon are all ready. I only have this lucky coin that my best friend’s aunt gave me last 2005. I have it ever since and since most of my IG friends are posting their charms, I remember that I have one too.

My lucky coin is up as well and inside my wallet again. Hopefully, aside from luck, it will give us a new and a brighter career too. Year of the water dragon, please be good to us year of the monkey.

You very well know how it all started. My fellow Twitter friends are all over it, so here I am. I’m starting with bits of photos from our previous trip to UK and the places we’ve been. Follow me, and I’ll follow you.

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If God will give me the right work at the right time, I’ll be needing trousers for work. A friend recommended me to check over Gray & Osbourne’s website since they have fabulous in line with Gardeur trousers. While browsing over their designs, I noticed that they have good designs for straight leg trousers which is just the right thing for me. I want a cut that will make me feel comfortable and I’m thankful that I found the best ones on their site. What do you think about this one below?

It looks very elegant right? I love the color too. Just perfect for work. It’s so nice that you can easily shop online for these type of clothing. It makes life easier especially for a stay-at-home mom like me. Now I just need to look for the right size for me. Their sizes are from 8 to 24. Hopefully I can identify as to which size I fall into.

I know it’s late but for journal’s sake need to write it up.

1. January – Applied for Lebanese citizenship.
2. February – Officially Lebanese citizen.
3. March – Our first snow experience in Bludan. End of my 1st trimester (pregnancy).
4. April – Project Home-Sweet-Home completed. Alhamdulillah!!!
5. May – Getting ready for the big labor day. Nesting period.
6. June – Our Lily’s birth month.
7. July – Our journey to plan ahead.
8. August – Holy month of Ramadan.
9. September.
10. October.
11. November.
12. December.

As you notice, the last 4 months is empty. That’s because I want to keep it blank so to forget what we experienced for those 4 months. Loneliness, emotional pain and burden for my husband, all down the drain as we start our new chapter for this year 2012. To sum it all, 2011 is not our year. But Allah is still good to us. In spite of those empty months, he gave us Lily to believe and hope for a better us. Ya Rab Ya Allah! May he guide us as we journey our new life.

This will be my first post for the year 2012. Sorry for being so idle these past few days. Aside from coping up with the weather, SIL took us around Sharjah yesterday. It’s really fun to be with your family – that’s all I can say. Looking forward to be on the work mode in the next couple of days. Living you behind this photo of us taken by SIL in Sahara Mall after lunch. Sorry for the mess in front of us, hahaha!

May this year brings forth good vibes to everyone, peace on earth, happiness and more blessing from Allah. 2011 is a year full of trials for us. But we hang on, trusted in Allah that everything will be okay. Alhamdulillah everything ended in a positive way. I claim that 2012 will be a year for us to start building and re-shaping our lives again. God Bless everyone.

I must share you this beautiful and amazing view overlooking my SIL’s place. Awesome! Subhan’Allah! God is truly awesome with his works.

I will try to make a whole view in the following days. This was just taken using “Panorama” app over the iPhone so as you can see there’s a vertical line on the photo. But it still works fine with me.

I was hoping that I can order a gift for a friend’s new house, because they moved in a few weeks ago to their new apartment. Aside from her, since I’m here staying with my SIL, their apartment is still new as well. So might as well order two gifts then. It’s nice to give something for them and to welcome a new journey ahead for their new abode. Below are some photos that I’m thinking to give. What to do you think?

  

I just hope it can be delivered before the end of the month. Christmas is 3 days from now, so I know that they will not receive it within this week, but hopefully before the end of the month.

What an amazing view this is for us. My SIL is living on the 40th floor and this is the view from their veranda. I was amazed by the beauty of the twinkling lights at night and the amazing high scrapers in the morning. UAE really is a beautiful country.

 

We haven’t been around the city yet, though they’ve already brought me and my kids over Carrefour City Centre yesterday to buy some things that we need. It’s like 5 blocks away from their building. And a blessing in disguise that my BIL is here as well while waiting for a flight home. He took pictures of my kids and will show it to my parents back home.

Aside from the jetlag and headache, I’m still so blessed to be here and to share this view with you.

Sharjah welcomed us with a beautiful sunrise yesterday. Yep, we’re here. And we’re hoping for a brighter day. My SIL and her husband opened their doors for us and my kids to stay with them for a while. I’m so blessed to have them in my life. I couldn’t ask for anything more, and I just pray that this light will bring forth good news for me and my family. Ya Rab! Ya Allah!

Yes, I’m still scrapping but not always. I’m yet to face another challenge and I’m still keeping up with it. Project December Daily is good to go. But I missed 2 days of not taking photos of my kiddos though. A friend advice me to just write full journal for that day instead. Well, that’s easy. I just hope my memory can recall what happen on that day. Gulp!

I made this layout a month ago. Our two love birds – all grown up. Click on the image for the layout credits.