It may be mostly clean, but…
My 6 year-old spent the weekend with a friend of mine and her family. He is friends with her son. My son rarely spends the night out unless it’s with my sister. I am always nervous to find out what family laundry my son aired while away from the nest.
J is a talker, a ponderer and an all around cool kid to be around. People love spending time with him cause you never know what will come out of his mouth. Here’s a snapshot of what my friend said was imparted by the wise sage:
- (while getting in her car) “Wow, usually when I go in other people’s car it’s sparkling!”
- (when we arrived on Friday, they met us at the car…we are all walking to the house) ” Do y’all have the internet so we won’t be bored? My cousins spent the night yesterdayand their internet is broke so they hogged mine”.
She said he just talks about everything…I’m not suprised.
Her father recently passed away (inna lilahi wa inna alaye rajioon) and he lived with her family. My son knew him as he was a teacher at is school last year. At 6, this is the 1st time he has experienced the death of someone he knew. We will have to talk about it soon. He is preoccupied with him. For instance, this morning as I was brushing his hair, he says, “Mommy, Dawud had a brush”. To myself I’m thinking, and? but I say, “oh yeah?”. He replies, “yeah, it was 2-sided, we saw it in his room. We played in his room but we weren’t allowed to sleep in there”.
Anyway my son was cool. He was respectful and had a great time away from home this weekend….not more than me what are you gonna do? LOL
Lemme me guess. He’s friends with Yusuf? are you on facebook? The whole NOVA crew is reconnecting over there!
My kids aren’t allowed to sleep over. Thanks for giving me another reason. My kids looove to talk. I wonder where they got that from.
Comment by Umm Adam — December 15, 2008 @ 2:47p
Safa!!! All this time I had been guessing this was you and after this post it’s confirmed! How ya been girl? Do you remember me? I’m Asiya, the younger sister of Asma and Najwa. I’ve been in Egypt for almost 5 years so I won’t be mad if you don’t remember me, LOL! Anyway, I really love your blog girl! You know you had be in tears laughing at your post on Jesse n Angie!
Comment by Asiya (Yusuf's Aunt) — December 23, 2008 @ 9:21p
Asiya!!!! Assalaamu alaikum! Of course I remember you! How are you? I feel like I know because I always hear updates from your sisters! How are the babies? 5 years have gone by so fast masha’Allah. I remember going to your house for an eid lunch right before you left! Najwa and I started out own child co-op! Every week we alternate between Yusef and Jameel at the other’s home…I LOVE it.
Comment by Safa — December 23, 2008 @ 2:41p
Wa alaykum as salaam wa rahmatullaah wa barakaatuh! We’re all doing fine alhamdu lillaah. Yes Naj told me about the co-op…I hear dat! We used to do it when she was here in Egypt too mashaa Allaah. Take care sweetie!
Comment by Asiya (Yusuf\'s Aunt) — December 29, 2008 @ 8:23p