Well, its still fourty minutes until Wednesday here in CA but oh well. Its Wednesday somewhere in the world!

We are leaving tomorrow for a big vacation to the Middle East so I probably won't be around VJ much for quite some time. I am glad to hear of all the visa approvals, babies being born, and all that fun stuff. I hope to read about more good news when I either get time to go online or when I get back!

Of course now I suddenly have that first twinge of a sore throat so now I'm worried I will get sick at the start of the trip. I sucked on a zinc lozenge, ate some vitamins, and loaded up on water, fruits, and veggies. HELP! What else can I quickly do to get this handled before I end up with a full blown cold!?

Okay happy hump day everyone!

have a fun and safe trip! i've liked seeing yr youtube video for the last couple days. fraggles and smurfs are great, but my favorite part was patty rabbit and the rest of the mapletown characters. that was one of my most watched cartoons when i was little. soooo cute.

Oh wow someone actually watched it? I thought it was such a trip I had to post it. I've never seen the cartoon before (well at least not that I remember) but I did have the dolls when I was a kid! I'm like the opposite of a pack rat though... all my favorite toys are long gone because I threw everything away because I didn't like clutter. lol Stupid kid. My mom fished things out of the trash when she could but I'm sure I snuck those little guys by her.

Have a wonderful trip! I pray u will not be sick on ur trip.

Awww...Enjoy your trip Sereia!! Vitamins, zinc and juice are my tools too and rest!! Wish I had a better cure for you!! Be safe and take tons of pictures!!!

Happy Wednesday MENA!!!

I hope and pray all of you will hear good news in the up coming days/week. Talk to everyone soon....I'm outta here in the morning to meet my babies!!! My last few hours pregnant!

Hey Jen!

I was too old I think for Mapletown, although I remember the characters and I did have the little fuzzy animals. Were we too old or was I just not into it for whatever reason? That's interesting we had the same thing-- the toys but not the cartoon.

Have fun on your trip! Email me or PM me or whatever and I'll get you the numbers if you need them.

Sometimes, if I am getting a sore throat and I don't have time to mess around with it, I'll take a small drink of something with a high alcohol content in it like nyquil or vanilla extract (I know, weird, but I don't actually have any drinking alcohol in the house) and then go to bed to let the alcohol kill whatever it is... otherwise try gargling with salt water.



Aww, enjoy yourself! Also enjoy the last time you can run anywhere and not have to worry about who is watching the kids twins

have wonderful wedensday


aweeeeeeeeeeee nawal keep us update

I promise I will....soon as I'm home I'm sure we will be ready with pictures! HEHE

Good morning everyone
i wish you a happy , safe trip sereia and have fun
have a nice blessed Wednesday all

morning everyone!

Can anybody tell me why the batteries in a smoke detector must always die during the night???Every 60 seconds it let off a piercing beep!

Have a great day everybody!!

Nawal, good luck, how exciting...I cant wait to see pics!!

Sereia..Have a wonderful trip...Sofyan and I have been here for 2.5 years now and still havent been able to get back to jordan...i envy you...lol..

Im awake early, only because i nearly slept alll day yesterday, my tummy hurting on top of the worst headache ive had in a while...i was not a happy camper...i took 2500mgs of tylenol and it did nothing, not one bit of relief...today its slightly better, but, i feel it coming on again...god i just cant win...

Zaid slept a 6 hour stretch last night...it was incredible...i woke up and was kinda scared thinking, wow, its been a while...but the lil guy just snoozed away...hes getting to be such a big boy...hes already cooing, following objects, smiling, its going toooo fast, he needs to slow down!!

Morning all!

Sereia have a safe trip and have lots of fun!

Kelly---its so scary when they sleep that long it almost freaks you out having to go into the room to check on them. Malek did his first real stretch without waking last night for a bottle. He made it 9 hours, HALLELUJIAH! I thought this day would never come!

Prayers are with you Nawal!! I can't wait to see those beautiful baby and reunion pictures!

We have had the same stupid problem with the fire alarms. We had a situation where all went off in the house at the same time because they were wired together and we couldn't figure out which one had the bad battery because they just keep echoing. After a few hours of the nonsense, leaving and coming home to the beeping again, we unhooked all of them and bought new batteries. It was driving us bonkers

Mohamed, you are cracking me up in the playpen. Everytime I see that it makes my day! I guess Melinda put you in there to keep you under control

Have a great one!

Happy Wednesday everyone! I am off from work today and im so happy about it. Im off to go get my mom for breakfast then just relax for the rest of the day. I wish everyone a blessed, and beautiful day! Enjoy!




AJ1

Tasha.....

Malek is getting SOOO big, his face has really matured from that chunky baby face to a more IM A LITTLE MAN face....He is really looking like your husband..I bet u get that a lot right??
9 hours is amazing...I cant wait til zaid has those nights...My mom told me i slept thru the night when i was a month old and on...hopefully he takes to that!

Im gonna get the house picked up while the baby takes his last hour snooze for the morning!!

Enjoy your trip!

Good morning everyone! it has been a while since I posted and I miss it. Having dial up sucks and takes too long!!!! Hope everyone is doing well. My latest update is that I am officially off this ride and filing for divorce in July. Rida wants nothing to do with his son and is more worried about himself. His parents would kringe if they new he was like this and all the lies he has told Anyway...I am hoping that once we upgrade, I will be on more often. It should be interesting to see how things go with USCIS now that we are getting divorced.


Jen - I hope you have a wonderful trip! Have fun and be safe.

nawal I can't wait to see pictures!!!! Good luck!!!!


My husband got his EAD card in the mail yesterday!!! It was funny 'cause even though I didn't have the kids last night my youngest still came home to wait for her stepmom to pick her up. I was at work and so it was just her and my hubby hanging out at home. Well when I got home I saw a pile of mail. I guess she took it in and he didn't see it and there it was, the envelope with his name on it! ALL that day he was kinda bummed 'cause he is sooooooo bored and he even said when I walked in that his patience is running out and then BAM we found the card alhumdulilah!!!! He's going today to the Soc Sec office and *hopefully* they will give him his number even though he cannot get the card yet. I have heard on the working before green card forum that they can do this. I hope so because about 6 online applications are hanging in limbo waiting on that precious SS #!!!! Times have sure changed because I don't ever remember having to give that out until I actually got hired!

Anyways I'm glad I have a super duper happy hubby today!!!

Get a box of those E-Mergen-C packets and start downing them. I also really find it helpful to make a "tea" of just hot water, lemon & fresh ginger. Hope it goes away and you enjoy your trip!

Nawal, I'm sure you're at the hospital by now, but best of luck to you! H will be here tomorrow and your world will be complete! I wanted to get online and chat w/ you last nite, but I passed out on the sofa trying to burn a cd . Oh well, when you get back....
Morning everyone!

Sereia-


Nawal -


ks71905-

Happy Hump Day, Sandsters!

CONGRATULATIONS to AJ1...!! and to Nawal ...!! and to Bridget...!!

wised up too late - It is his loss, if just left a wonderful woman and a beautiful baby, what a tool.

Good morning everyone!!! Jen have a safe and wonderful trip, i wish you luck. I am envious of you I haven't been to Morocco in almost a year and half now.

Nawal, i can't wait to see those beautiful babies. Good luck!!

And if anyone has a cure for insonmia let me know. Its after 3 am before i get to sleep and i'm up at 7:30!!

Terrie, I have a cure...Pray yourself to sleep. It really works! Anyway, I hope you are doing better today.

Jen, I forgot to wish you a wonderful and safe trip!

glad to see u back and that your fine...put some pics of the little guy so we can see

g'morning everyone









have a safe trip and a good time there, sereia

I've been crazy busy and feel guilty for any time I use for VJ, but a girl's gotta get her fix

My husband decided to start a heavy equipment (bulldozers, ect) export buisness back to Egypt, and guess who gets to do all the paperwork but we have agreed that he will take English classes when he comes back from Egypt in July. He leaves for Egypt in a week, and honestly, I have mixed feelings.... part of me is happy because I am a full-time student, full-time employee, and now have to help him start his buiness - I'm tapped out... on the other hand, I know I will miss my habbibi


Sereia - Have a safe trip - enjoy

Nawal - Can't wait to see the baby pics and I can't imagine how excited you are to get to meet your twins and be reuinited with your husband in such a short period of time

Congrats Bridget! I hope your husband gets to start working soon. Hopefully the card will give a little bit of a boost until then

Wised up too late - his lose and big hugs to you I wish a wonderful future for you and your son.

Charles - that's alot of camels

Everyone else - Happy Hump Day!

Happy hump day MENA

Have a great and safe trip, Jen!

I've never heard of Mapletown either...

Good luck with the business, polarbear!

And sorry your husband is such an a$$wipe WOTL.

AWwwwww I am so happy for you and sorry but a little twang of jelousy.... i'll go pray lol. Have a great time and we look forward to all your stories when you get back Insha'allah

Make it a good one!

Happy Wednesday everyone! (no camel teeth plz! )

Jackie
my kitty is really upset SHE HEARD YA'LL LAUGHING AT HER HAIRCUT!

May i have a turn at a day? really havent had one (lately)

Absolutely, followed by my

i'm gonna photoshop her pic

Wake me when my fur grows back. And will someone PLEASE take the scissors away from my owner?

Thanks for all the well wishes everyone! I woke up with my throat on fire! I hope I can at least keep it at bay without getting a full blown cold. Typical me... I haven't been sick in probably six months but now that we're leaving on a huge trip I do. I guess its the stress of planning? hehe

Have a great Wednesday! I need to do laundry and pack (procrastinator as usual!)

Charles, ...pss below.

Happy Hump Day all (with monday a holiday it really doesnt feel like hump day, does it?)

WUTL - good to hear from you, enjoy your baby he's a gift even if everything else is not right...

Jen - be safe and have a great time.

our smoke detectors have been beeping for around 6 months now and its annoying the crap out of me! The apartment mngmnt is supposed to fix it but haven't shown up.



Girl, I'm here for ya. I'm so sorry he turned into such a tool. If u need a break, cmmon down. I'll help with the baby ..





Go to the doc and see if u can get a z-pack. They work wonders and they're only 6 tablets that u take over a 5 day period. I don't think they're too awful expensive either. U definitely dont wanna be sick when u go... Have a great time and keep in touch.

Yes Kelly, I get it all of the time that Malek looks like Daddy! Except the roundness of his face he does resemble him a lot. He has lighter skin than his father but still so much of him reminds me of Ayman. Your little one looks so much like your husband too!!!

I hope everybody starts getting better around here. It sounds like the yucky yucks has gotten to all of us over the week with the sore throat. Good old Amoxicillin is what they have me on for that nasty strep throat.

Sounds like some good trips are planned for a lot of you.

Jackie....did you shave your cat's body for the summer? Our dog kind of looks like that, lol! He is a shihtzu and we shave his body only and leave his tail and ears long with a mustache.

WUTL----you have your prize girl! That baby will know so much love from his mommy!

too bad i'm allergic! i should call my doc and get something else in case...

T and A, I don't think baby Malek could possibly get any cuter!

ITS WEDNESDAY!!!!!! YAYYYYY

this week ISSSS actually moving pretty fast!!!!!!

tomorrow we will be sooooooooooooooooooo busy!!!!

and THENNNN its FRIDAY!!!!!!!


Congrats on the twins being born today!!! very exciting.

Amoxicillin 500mg should do the trick.

Amal i bet if you change the batteries your detector will stop buzzing.

Jesssssssssssssssssssssss, yayyyyyyyyyyyyy your day is so close!!!!!!!! I wish you the best girl!!!!! I can't wait to see his pictures!

Jess can't believe your due date is almost here!! The time has gone by
so fast....Just take care of yourself and can't wait to see pics of the
little one....I know you are so excited!!