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Laughed my butt off over this:

Sunday Boondocks
Enjoy!

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I don’t like Mondays,
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oot,
The whole day down…

Just kidding, but it was the only lyric that came to mind regarding Monday. Thank you Boomtown Rats!

The Morocco countdown is in full swing this morning. We leave on Friday afternoon. Am I excited? Not yet. I am never excited about trips until I am actually on them. Too much prep work, which this trip involves, makes me a sourpuss. I don’t think I have ever packed for a two week trip since I was 10 going to my Aunt’s house in the summer. Plus, the gifts. I am buying mostly for the nieces and nephews as they are easy to ply with sugar and colorful things like toothbrushes (I am THAT aunt…hehe). At least I cover my bases – things to rot your teeth and things to unrot them. Full circle. To be honest, I did buy them sugarfree bubblegum… They won’t know the difference, hopefully.

We found a house this weekend that we may possibly rent. A nice 3 bedroom set up with a garage, huge yard with an apple tree (!), in a nice older neighborhood that doesn’t look like a vinyl shanty town. And, for the unbelieveable rent of 650 a month. We’re paying that now for our two bedroom, 800 square foot shack of an apartment. What a windfall. Alhamdulillah! Hubster’s looking at pictures that I sent him to give the okay to seal the deal before the owner goes back to Dubai. This is a real opportunity for us as a family to have some space and not be in each other’s faces all the time… also it would give Hamza some space to explore and be less bored in the house. Especially since he is almost walking. Wow.

Hamza Update:
Doing well. He survived the weekend with just the grandparents while dad went to Oujda to visit the Shaykh. He is has more molars crowning and I think this may be the first difficult teething he has had so far. Little bit of a fever, but nothing bad. I can’t believe how many teeth he has! That must be ten now. Now, if he would only learn to talk! (I know, don’t push it, he won’t shut up, etc etc etc Mother in my brain). Its will to be sad to bring him home where there are no cousins to play with…

Off to work with me now.

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