Have you noticed how things out turn out best when you just let them be?
This long weekend started off ominously enough- a bad cough and cold, the result of wanting to experience the dust storm first hand! And yet somehow all these amazing things happened:
* Woke up to husband making breakfast; opened the newspaper to find Baba's signature on the March 23 1940 Lahore Resolution in the newspaper. Felt so odd to see his handwriting- so familiar and yet so unknown
* We went to the cinema for the opening show of The Hunger Games- much to Iman's delight. And despite my "get-up"- shawl, granny glasses, kleenex box, strips of Strepsils- I not only managed to have fun but make it through a box of mixed salty and sweet popcorn (itchy throat be damned!) :)
* Qais went for his Taekwondo championship, and bagged 3 medals- a gold for forms, a silver for board breaking, and a bronze for sparring. And while his team lost to their nemesis Lyari 5-4, my boys had a great football weekend nonetheless as favorite Arsenal won its fixture while rivals Chelsea, Tottenham and even Man City all drew theirs :)
* I managed two get all my vegetables home-delivered by the wonderful Pick Fresh people- who went the extra mile and sent mine in re-usable cloth bags so I don't have to have guilt with my greens :)
* Hatim manged to squeeze in two play-dates over the long weekend and his hair is growing into the cutest suggestion of curls at the edges. He's still my baby :)
* I managed to finish another book from my recent spree at The Last Word- Nick Harkaway's The Angelmaker- in the words of one reviewer
What's not to love :)
* Went out for dinner to the new-revamped Aylanto with Fizza, Raania and Mansoor (nice decor, food so-so) and ended up in Urgent Care Services- a throwback to Saturday nights in college. But no one had their stomachs pumped fortunately :) It was a case of a little something in Fizz's eye- a little speck that led to much hilarity as waiters were rushed to find eyedrops, rosewater and a kangaroo (!) to no avail. After many tears (all Fizza's), and a few frozen yogurts, we ended the evening crashing (and crashed) on Fizza's phopo's sofa- while "Shazia" made Raza tea...sometimes you just need these evenings :)
* Got some alone time at one of my favorite Karachi spots- Sunday Bazaar (this deserves a post all of its own one of these days). Managed to pick up a few secondhand cheap and cheerful reads for the poolside later, a couple of antique-y china platters, and of course some bells for my sharifa tree- can never have too many bells!
* Managed to squeeze in the first swim of the year! Water was cool at first entry, but lovely in the warm sun. Need to go everyday. Followed by lovely ice cream cones :)
* And now have Bua's yummy chicken biryani to look forward to, while Raza and Qais take advantage of Hatim's post-swim nap and play chess.
* Oh, and I managed to discover a cure for the common cold- rest, have fun, drink plenty of fluids, rest, have fun: who'd have thunk!
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| Sometimes life really is a picnic = serendipity <3 (image from somewhere on the web- can't remember where!) |
This long weekend started off ominously enough- a bad cough and cold, the result of wanting to experience the dust storm first hand! And yet somehow all these amazing things happened:
* Woke up to husband making breakfast; opened the newspaper to find Baba's signature on the March 23 1940 Lahore Resolution in the newspaper. Felt so odd to see his handwriting- so familiar and yet so unknown
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| Baba behind the Quaid- Working Committee of the Lahore Resolution |
* We went to the cinema for the opening show of The Hunger Games- much to Iman's delight. And despite my "get-up"- shawl, granny glasses, kleenex box, strips of Strepsils- I not only managed to have fun but make it through a box of mixed salty and sweet popcorn (itchy throat be damned!) :)
* Qais went for his Taekwondo championship, and bagged 3 medals- a gold for forms, a silver for board breaking, and a bronze for sparring. And while his team lost to their nemesis Lyari 5-4, my boys had a great football weekend nonetheless as favorite Arsenal won its fixture while rivals Chelsea, Tottenham and even Man City all drew theirs :)
* I managed two get all my vegetables home-delivered by the wonderful Pick Fresh people- who went the extra mile and sent mine in re-usable cloth bags so I don't have to have guilt with my greens :)
* Hatim manged to squeeze in two play-dates over the long weekend and his hair is growing into the cutest suggestion of curls at the edges. He's still my baby :)
* I managed to finish another book from my recent spree at The Last Word- Nick Harkaway's The Angelmaker- in the words of one reviewer
blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
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| Don't ask why it's not right-side up! |
What's not to love :)
* Went out for dinner to the new-revamped Aylanto with Fizza, Raania and Mansoor (nice decor, food so-so) and ended up in Urgent Care Services- a throwback to Saturday nights in college. But no one had their stomachs pumped fortunately :) It was a case of a little something in Fizz's eye- a little speck that led to much hilarity as waiters were rushed to find eyedrops, rosewater and a kangaroo (!) to no avail. After many tears (all Fizza's), and a few frozen yogurts, we ended the evening crashing (and crashed) on Fizza's phopo's sofa- while "Shazia" made Raza tea...sometimes you just need these evenings :)
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| Fizza's got her feet up at AKUK Urgent Care Services! |
* Got some alone time at one of my favorite Karachi spots- Sunday Bazaar (this deserves a post all of its own one of these days). Managed to pick up a few secondhand cheap and cheerful reads for the poolside later, a couple of antique-y china platters, and of course some bells for my sharifa tree- can never have too many bells!
* Managed to squeeze in the first swim of the year! Water was cool at first entry, but lovely in the warm sun. Need to go everyday. Followed by lovely ice cream cones :)
* And now have Bua's yummy chicken biryani to look forward to, while Raza and Qais take advantage of Hatim's post-swim nap and play chess.
hahahahahahah just love the description of saturday nite :) it was fun despite all my tears!!!! xxxx Fiz
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