Ibrahim is a germophobe who would give Monk a run for is money. He doesn’t drink out of other people’s cups, he doesn’t eat off even my cake plate after my cake is gone. He even keeps his toothbrush in a special holder away from anyone else’s. Apparently he also is hip enough [...]
Archive for the ‘Happenings’ Category
Toothbrush hygiene
Posted in Family, Happenings, Humor, Uncategorized, tagged domestic bliss, Humor, occurances on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A day at the farm
Posted in Family, Happenings, tagged family reunion, farm, zebadani on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A visit to Uncle Anas’ farm in Zebadani
From Sewage to Shimmer
Posted in Happenings, Humor, tagged Humor, plumbing, syria on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“..my father-in-law arrived on his white horse, plunger unsheathed and ready to do battle.”
Nuptuals
Posted in Cultural Observations, Family, Happenings, Medical Issues, Women's Issues on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Syrian weddings happen in stages and include some interesting traditions – some of these are sweet and some of them left us rolling our eyes.
Scouts
Posted in Family, Happenings on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Been incommunicado
Posted in Happenings on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been sans technology since my computer crashed and burned in mid-March sometime. We shall call it The Great Disaster of ‘08 - we lost evrything (including my manuscript, thank God the book has already been published!!)
Anyway, we’re back up and running (well, at least crawling) over here and I’ll try to get some new stuff posted ASAP!
Picnic
Posted in Family, Happenings, weather on March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Kool and his sister.
The rest of the Gang (without Kool)
Last Friday was a beautiful day! We (and the rest of Damascus) decided to go on a picnic. It was like a picnic epidemic swept over the city. EVERYWHERE was packed. We drove for over an hour to find this sweet little place where you bring [...]
More snow pics
Posted in Happenings, weather on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The kids’ uncle took them to the mountains to play in the snow the first time it snowed. This was the very first time we ever saw snow in Syria. Isn’t Jenan a great photog?
This is the tomb of the unknown soldier. Jenan took this one, too.
SNOW!
Posted in Happenings on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It snowed this week, in the mountains. Down here in the valley we just had a really horrendous wind storm. (Never a dull moment in Damascus!) We had one snow day because the kids’ school is in a suburb that is a ways up. This was the scene when we went to school the [...]
Fries with that?
Posted in Happenings, Humor on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today my daughters and I ordered take out from a new fast food place. We ordered chicken sandwiches with fries.
When we opened the bags there were only sandwiches. We were like, “Where’re the fries??”
We needn’t have worried, though. They were tucked safely inside the sandwiches.
“Chicken sandwiches with fries.”
