I should be Sleepy, but feeling a little Grumpy. Nah, I'm Dopey Where is Sneezy?

Have a great Thursday in whatever you do! Wake up and smell the coffee/tea!

Jackie

Thursday is kind fo my hump day, kind of my tuesday. Depends on how you look at it Right now I'm tuesday-ing it. 11pm I'll be Wednesdaying it. I am going to have a great day! i managed to find raw peanuts for planting!! have Chayote, yams, potatoes, and garlic started as well. Ate about 5 peanuts, and have a whole bag left for planting!

Wow you sure are an ambitious gardner! I'm lucky to throw in some tomato plants and maybe some hot peppers.

jJ

LOL! you know I went years without having a veggie garden, I had gone 100% ornamental. I had this rose collection forever of hundreds of roses... then i got into herbs and whatnot.. got into irises for a while and then settled on cacti and succulents. Now I like cacti and succulents mixed with roses. I love a blanket of sedums or sempervivums around yuccas, prickley pears, and under the roses. This year I decided to go back to veggie gardening and built and am building several raised beds. I have a bunch of seed, but don't have room for 168 different varieties of tomatoes.. so i'm trying out a few things at a time. In the end (like this weekend) I will finalyl have out:

potatoes (2 kinds, red skinned and big baking potatoes)
yams
peanuts (virginia)
chayote
ginger
garlic
tomatoes (red, white, pink, purple, striped, bicolor, yellow, orange, brown, furry yellow... cherries and full-size.. opted out of green this year)
peppers (red bell, planted a mix packet which could contain green, white, purple, orange, yellow sweets, also planted a hot mix packet which is mostly habenero reds)
sunflowers
green okra
yellow and green flat italian-style pole beans
flageolet french beans
yellow wax and green bush beans
3 kinds of pole beans, all green, one of them is a yard-long asparagus bean
lemon cukes and sumter cukes (green pickling-type)
grey and green zucchini
yellow crookneck squash
bennington green tint scallop squash
tromboncino squash
butternut squash
4 kinds of "pumpkins" (blue, pink, deep red, green-orange)
2 kinds of watermelons (moon and stars and crimson sweet)
2 kinds fo eggplant (green, purple)
onions-- bunching green and bulbing red
spinach-- NZ and regular
bright lights swiss chard
4 kinds of beets (red, long, striped, yellow)
bok choy
dill
parsley
purple and green basil
armenian cucumbers (remember githa in Jordan? these are the same thing, really a melon but used like a cuke)
angled edible luffa gourds
nasturtiums
cauliflower
carrots (red, white, yellow, purple, orange)
cabbage (red and chinese)
radishes (watermellon and pink beauty)
lettuce (red, green, and spotted)
marigolds
broccoli (spiral)
kohlrabi (purple)

Some things like the lettuce, etc are actually cool-weather plants I am going to rotate in in the summer. Probably add peas to that list. It's majorly about diet actually. I love eating fresh food and I figure this way i can have what i want fresh

Ammar is back to calling me "felaha."

Good morning everyone
Happy Thursday MENA.

[font="Comic Sans MS"][/font] Happy Thursday Mena!! I'm back home and so crazy with the baibes...LOL. We hardly sleep 3 hours a day .... But truly in love with my little munchkins! Nour was 6.7 pounds and Zain was 7.13....OMG huge babies!! :0) I will try and add some baby pics to my sig soon...when I have some time to breath!! Miss talking to all of you! My fiance is here!! Hadmulillah and its been amazing...he's truly such a help and thank god he's here...diaper changer, baby feeder and let mommy rest!! Woohoo!

Good morning Nawal Nour and Zain are so adorable and gorgeous babies
GOD bless them .
have a nice blessed new life with your babies and with your love

Yay! Also wow! those are huge for twins! That's really great though-- awesome to hear they are doing well.




Oh, I forgot. SOMEONE asked that I plant corn. So we have white corn and yellow corn (both sweet corns) and popcorn (strawberry and carousel, just went with both. Strawberry is red and carousel is multicolored.) I told SOMEONE he has to be in charge of the corn then. Corn doesn't thrill me.

Thank you Tender!! I can't stop staring at them in amazement! :0)

Thank you Julianna! They were so big because I actually made it 39 1/2 weeks...ouch...lol. All the nurses at the hospital kept commenting on how big they were and how long I carried them. :0)

I know that's a huge worry with twins is that they are always born prematurely and are often very low-weight. So that's so awesome. no wonder you felt huge! I saw this woman at the mall whom I felt sorry for lol.. she clearly had twins and they were both launching off her vertebra/back of her ribs in two opposite directions. You could see these two different butts poking out of different sides of her stomach. I figured that was NOT fun. She looked like she was used to it though.

Congrats on all the new babies.
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I tossed my back out on Wednesday and I'm taking Ibuprofren every 4 hours. This pain is unbearable! I never had this happen before.

You do get used to it and I think now I can tell which one of the twins was kicking my butt some days! I can tell by their movements now and how they kick, move their hands or how they sleep. :0) Amazing... Both of them already have such different personalities...Nour is calm and quiet and Zain is loud and in charge...LOL.

Goodmorning everyone. Its another rainy day here. Im off to work shortly can't wait until the weekend so i can start getting some shopping, and house cleaning done. 1 day away from Friday!!! I hope everyone has a beautiful, and blessed day!! Enjoy!



AJ1

goodmorning mena, just popping in for one second, have to get Mr Man his bottle before he starts screaming again, then hopefully we can go back to sleep for a few hours...insert haha here.....i too miss you all!!

nawal your baby's are adorable, congrats to you and your family!!!

ive been an emotional mess the last few days. i am soooooo happy to have Joshua here but i really need dh and his help. this is hard to do by yourself and i realllllly do give it up to single mamas.

ok i hope yall have a good day. gotta go.

Good Morning!

Nawal, the twins are adorable!

0, try to take better care of yourself.

Juliana, now you need to make a list of all of your flowers.

Good Morning and Happy Thursday to Jackie, AJ1, Tenderheart, and everyone else.

Nawal babies are beautiful !!! Im so happy he is there with you while the babies are so young and see everyday of there life.

Jess I wish u the best also with Joshua yes it is so hard to raise the baby by yourself !! You will be just fine I did it for 1 year !!

Good Morning Mena!!! Have a wonderful Day!!!!!

Happy Thursday everyone...

LOVE UR BABIES NAWAL N JESS cute n adorable dont even describe it lol masha Allah

Happy Thursday MENA..I feel like dopey..I think..I am in a total daze - I hope you all have a great day...and I hope to hear some more good news.....Melinda:)

My hat is off to you Jess! C-sections suck when you are alone and trying to care for a baby! Hopefully your dh will be here soon, any news on that? Just remember to relax when you can. You have a beautiful son!

Nawal, you too, those babies are gorgeous!!! Take care of mommy..daddy!

Everybody have a great Thursday!

Hey Melinda....I cant imagine why you are dopey.Too much dancing??

[i]Good morning! All these babies!! So beautiful...just fantastic. Best wishes
for all the new mom's and dad's. Hope everyone has a good day.

Olivia do take care....rest is needed.

Nagi, will have your coffee ready soon!

Everyone have a wonderful and peaceful day.

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What's the rest of the crew...Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezey,,,,,, ?


Jackie

i'm here! oh wait, i thought that said sleezey........

Happy. He smoked too much. Doc, he was the hook up.


Jeanne, I need that coffee

Dopey- reported for but very dopey



Olivia-

Jess-





Nawal-

I have t shirt says im grumpy because your dopey and has their pictures, babies are too beautiful

Happy thursdsay mena peeps... and the babies ??? Mashallah... so big and so beautiful. i love babies... lol

Just Jackie.... how yeah doin' girl...been thinking of you?

Me this is my Thursday... worked since Sunday so I am ready for a day to clean out my closet... it's that time again.

I just hate cleaning out closets! Amazing how much crap one can accumulate .

Me too but instead of just my things I am doing something about "when" my Reda will be here insha'allah. Makes cleaning it out much easier.. but I fear once it's clean i'll just look at a half empty closet for the next 9 months

mashallah jess and nawal your babies are beautiful...cant wait to see them gettin big!!

zaid slept 7 hours straight last night, woke up to eat, then slept another 4...it was WELL NEEDED considering the night before I only slept 4 hours...i am gonna call his doctor today and bring up the Colic thing...Im almost positive he has it...he cries like he is being abused for 3-4 hours every night..im such a lucky mom, lol...

we are having a graduation party for my twin sister on saturday so today we hae lots of shopping to do and getting the house together...should be fun...sofyan will be on baby duty for a few hours so i can get things done withou interruptions...

wishing everyone a great day and hoping the weather by you is better than it is here in chicago

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{NAWAL}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} I missed you, girl!!! Mash'Allah - those babies are beautiful! I hope you are doing well and we will catch up soon. Hi to H for me.

Jess, I'm glad you're back around and have that new baby boy on the "outside" now. I pray that you are able to return to Georges soon. I know you've got your hands full!

You all can toss around the seven dwarves identities amongst yourselves - me, I'm Snow White!!!

Hope everyone has a great day!! Wooooooooooooooo.... it's Thursday and the beginning of my hubby's weekend!

Cheers...
N

Congrats to Nawal and Jess!

Your twins are beautiful, Nawal!

Are there pictures of Joshua yet?

There are a couple of them in the Congrats to Jess thread... check it out!

eta: Jenn, it's here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=1899179

I hear ya on that one. I have thrown out and given away so many things so far, I had no idea how much crap I actually had in there now that I look at it. And still. I have other things to get done, such as the upstairs. Sigh.

Thanks, Noura!

I edited to post the direct link for that post.... hope you found it!

what is MENA? is that a name of a person or an acronym? am just curious on it because i always read it and i don't know what is it

:|: PiNk :|:


oooooo is that word stands for Middle east and North Africa?

Answer to inquiry #687... MENA is an acronym:
Middle
East
North
Africa

thanks

Good morning everyone

Nawal, the twins are adorable

Mornin Zee!

b!tchy here, reporting for duty.


mashallah on all the cute babies!!!!! sooo adorable!

Welcome back - your babies are so precious - congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awwwwwwww jess and nawal!!! the babies are just precious can i have one? hehe enjoy them coz they grow like weeds

kel, we used green tea with my son when he got cranky with gas/cholic. it got him tootin like there was no tomorrow and worked in just minutes!

hi jackie hehehe i hope u have clothes on now

Nawal your babies are beautiful and huge. Is daddy thrilled beyond words?

Kelly - thats hard. wow.


Happy Thursday all!

My youngest was colicky and it didn't start until about week 2 I believe. We had to change her formula to the wicked expensive kind and I had to give her a bottle of warm water mixed with light Kayro syrup twice/day. That and keeping her in a snuggly so she was always smelling me and feeling my heartbeat did the trick. Luckily they do grow out of it eventually so there is light at the end of the tunnel. I think it's part gassiness and part just being uber sensitive to life outside of the womb, though every case is different.

We had to use Mylicon drops with Malek and eventually his formula had to be changed to Isomil. If I turned on the vaccuum cleaner or blow dryer he would quit crying. I think we went through this for about a month and now he hardly ever cries.

Since my husband has arrived, he has cleaned out a basement, garage, shed and closets full of junk and toys. His motto is, if I am cleaning and your toys are on the floor and you have the chance to pick them up they are gone. You would not believe the toys that he threw away. We were embarassed for the neighbors to see them. We had trash in front of our yard and the neighbors two trash pick ups in a row.

I see Zaid's new pics and he is so cute! He looks like a little man!