Quick Update

I could not sleep so I started couple of hours ago wanted to do few minutes of work and not sure how it is already 2:30 am. I figured since it is already late and I will be tired tomorrow anyway, I checked my email and the comments in the blog and decided to take few minutes to update my blog.

Just when I thought my life can not get more busy, I was wrong. I know it is absolutely crazy. But you will be happy to know that a lot of it I am enjoying very much. Well except for the part that I had to go to the kids school for about 3 days to translate a 2 hours test for Yasmeen each time. It is this general exam to evaluate the schools and they will take some % of it and add it to their final report. So some one at the school had this brilliant idea that I can go and translate for her. Let me tell you it is not easy to try to translate without giving any hint then she looks at me with her puppy eyes and ask me if she gave the right answer and I had to say I can’t tell you; thank God it is over. The good thing about it is I can really see where is here strength and what is her weakness and will help me to work with here specially in the math.

I know that I can get very talkative when I am tired, so I will just stop talking and add few pictures which I know is what you are waiting for.

Vahid's and his beautiful Wife "May" visiting from Florida


At Jordan River by Tiberas – Walking around all the wonderful memories as a child were coming back. The kids had a wonderful time, I loved watching them being so close to nature.

Family/love/Happines/pain

Family is such an amazing thing. It is those people who know you, understand your pains and rejoice for your happiness. It is those people that you are not worried to be yourself around, be silly, or just lay there and be lazy while they fix you a meal and you will not feel guilty about it. They don’t judge you and don’t expect anything back. It is those people that love you with all your imperfection. It is someone that is miles away but knows when you are having a hard time someone that you close your eyes and can feel them close. I am lucky as I know what it means to love and how it feels to be loved. You might wonder why all the sudden this change of style of what I am writing. What is it that is making me think of all these things? It is part of who I am and who I will always be. In between this amazing experience these beautiful pictures and wonderful evening a part of me is always home sick. Home sick not to a place it is to the people I hold close to my heart.

Partly it is the music CD I was listing to this morning, and partly my brother’s fault he called couple of hours ago. We talked for an hour. We kept getting interrupted by the kids at both ends; we talked about all kind of unrelated topics. But when he hang-up I could not stop crying, he had called to wish me happy mother’s day. Few days ago my family got together for a memorial service for my mother and just before he called I was looking at the pictures for the memorial service. I can’t believe it is been four years since my mother passed away on mothers day. I remember one night as I kneeled next to her bed while she was sick begging her not to leave us she said that I should not cry and she is a lucky person how had done everything she wanted to do in her life and that my dad been waiting for her for too long. It was almost 20 years since my dad had passed away. For all these years my mother took care of five kids alone and always talked about my dad as he was next to her. She managed to sent us all to school watch us graduate one by one, got us all married, watch us have kids went travel teaching to Russia, China. The last thing she did was going to her Baha’i pilgrimage while she was sick. She made it despite the fact that the doctors said that no way she will make it. She connected with everyone she met, she gave so much of her self even when she was sick. For those of you who don’t know her she was an amazing lady; one of a kind. She lived her life doing what she thought is right which was not always the easy way or the most comfortable way or what her heart desired. Speaking of doing the right things. Nadia can’t go to sleep and needs her mother so I better go.

Happy mother’s day for all the lovely mothers and for those of you who are lucky to still have your mothers around make sure not to take any thing for granted.

What Have we been doing lately

Greetings from Israel..


At the Ridvan Garden in Akka





Visiting Mom’s old school in Akka “Terasanta”
On the way to the Dead Sea



Floating in the Dead Sea

Visiting Masada on the way home from the Dead Sea

The signs of spring


The first day of Ridvan Celebration

Our new pets, the cutest little things the girls already got them potty trained



We found him in the street and had him over for sleep over for one night for observation.. Please don’t ask.








How we spend some evening when we are not studying

Mother's day celebration - Yasmeen's class with the Arabic teacher.

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