Gift idea for the homesick husband

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Hmmm, we don't have a lot of american guys petitioning for ME/NA girls, but that's another subject...

My husband will occaisionally get homesick. Minnesota is (shockingly) quite different from home. So, today I ordered him some egypt stuff from Flagline.

I got a friendship pin for him and me, so we match

plus, a keychain and a little flag to put with our little american flag and UN flag that sit next to our tv.

Oooo, I hope he likes it.

[MaryandMian 1]

That is such a cute idea and thanks for sharing.

Mary

[~Jackie~ 30]

We live about 30 minutes from an Arab grocery store/restaurant, so a few times a month we go there. This helps because he can get bread, olives, halal meat and white cheese ( I call it sqeaky cheese).

Phone cards to call home are a nice suprise. Mohammed is always in a better mood after calling, the family in Jordan passing the phone around to visit.

Watching local TV on www.mediahopper.com helps too.

Jackie

[Mina76 0]

hi rahma

Thank you for sharing this link and great idea

I just ordered a couple of those friendship pins for me and my husband and I'am sure he will like them too.

One other way he deals with homesickness is getting a regular delivery of his Turkish daily newspaper called "ZAMAN" which helps him to keep up with what is going on in Turkey as well as with other Turks in the USA

[Aymerlu 3]

I LOVE the pin! I'm ordering one today to wear on my name tag for work

[iceyspots 0]

When I visited, I brought him some food products he liked... wheat thins, some cranberry juice, he absoloutely loved pantene pro V.. so I sent yacine a little care package

[AngelK96 0]

Rahma great idea.

I live in the boondacks so to speak no arabs or muslims around.

if anyone has a great online web site to order arab coffee from

I'll sure appreciate it!! almost running out and my husband needs

his morning coffee!!

[noura 0]

Hey Angel, not sure abt Minnesota, but at the local "int'l" store, they sell arabic coffee... a few different kinds. There's bound to be an online site to order from, but if you can't find any, I'm sure they would ship it from here or I could for that matter.... just let me know if you can't find it elsewhere.

Noura

[I'm Gone 60]

A camel. LOL

[iceyspots 0]

ohhh.. arabic/turkish coffee is sooooooo nasty... IMHO... I call it "Motor Oil"

[cbd2cai 0]

I have a small packet of coffee I brought back from Turkey . . . and it is still sealed up .

I am not sure that it is what you are talking about . . . BUT, If you want it, I can send it to you, Angel! I had no takers when I tried to give it away. I am still cleaning up things!!!

Catherine B)

here is an online grocer . . . I haven't used it because we have ME stores here . . . but check it out:

Ethnic Grocer

And specifically their selections of coffee:

EthnicGrocer Coffee

Edited April 25, 2006 by cbarrosmostafa

[Veiled Princess 1]

A camel. LOL

I want a camel

[cbd2cai 0]

Here's another place to look for gifts from the ME . . they have coffee, food, clothing and lots of other things listed . . . shipping to everywhere in the world from Lebanon:

Cedar Sky

Edited April 25, 2006 by cbarrosmostafa

[honeyblonde 0]

I bought Abdel a Mr. Coffe Espresso maker, and some Starbucks French Roast coffee. He loves it. Now we just have to order him a new carafe because it got broken when we were working in the kitchen. They sell the replacements for all the other sizes at Walmart, but not the espresso one.

[griffin 7]

Greetings!

Take him to an Arabic Restaurant....or take him to any hotels who has arabic theme nights...or simply go out with him , have some coffee and some sisha! some tobacco shops allows that....

griffin