Reminiscing our First Family Adventure: Pamukkale

It's been almost a year ago since we had our first family adventure. By adventure, I mean exploring an entirely new place. We have travelled back and forth to Turkey since but not really exploring but visiting family members and relations. Well, it's all worth it. We just need to keep focusing on our goal to explore together as family as well.

It seems important to do things together like adventures and all but right now we are enjoying a perfect weather in Doha being cozy at home and enjoying being together. Bliss - as always.

Reminiscing...

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Eid Al-Adha 2011

It's the first day of Eid Al-Adha holiday for 2011! And we are wide awake early in the morning!

Okay, so it has been almost a month since our We're Back blog but our blogging mojos are really taking its time on its holiday.

And in this part of the world, we get to have our 9-day holiday, almost similar to last year. It is officially our favorite holiday of the year, Eid Al-Adha!

And it's not purely because of non-working holidays. Well, for the husband, it reminds him of all the new clothes he and his sister receives during the holiday. (It is somewhat similar to our Christmas celebrations - for Christians of course!)

Yesterday, I have explained to the kids the meaning of the this Eid. This is the Feast of Sacrifice. I believe that not only Muslims should celebrate this holiday.

What is being commemorated in this feast is the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac to our Lord Almighty. Despite how much Abraham love his precious son Isaac, he intended to follow God's will and obey Him. He was about to sacrifice Isaac! Of course, God provided Abraham a sheep instead to sacrifice after realizing Abraham's full obedience to His power.

Personally, to me, it also shows how God's love for us. He will test and give us trials but at the end, He has His loving reasons.

God is love. And a little understanding of God's love will allow us human to endure sacrifices, albeit small.

I have always loved this story when I was a kid and reading Bible often. Now we get to celebrate it with my family.

Not that we are going to follow the Muslim tradition of offering a goat or sheep, but we believe that sacrifices to assist others will do the trick.

Eid Mubarak to all and may our sacrifices here on Earth be worthy to the eyes of our Creator.


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Back in Doha But So NOT Back to Normal

Hello Blogging!

It seems like eons ago that this blog started with a post Turknoys are Now Back in Doha. It was our family's visit to Turkey and we were so inspired to tell the world how it went, hence, the blogging part.

Several months later, more than a hundred blog posts and three more visits to Turkey, the inspiration is still there but the effort from our side is very nil. Our blogging mojo has left the family. For quite some time only, we hope.

But that doesn't mean that we are the exploring anymore. Well, to be quite honest, we mainly stay home and be together, complete homework, rest and bum around. To our defense, summer heat is almost unbearable in Doha after experiencing a magnificent summer weather all over Turkey.

We are homesick, over-relaxed and lazy and to think that we were back from our Turkey vacation a month ago.

Well, at least this weekend, we went to Corniche with the kids and now we are back to our blogging while the Turk is busy whipping up something in the kitchen.

Back to normal? I suppose back to routine. But there are lots of changes in the family's attitude and style of living that we will explore in our next blog posts.

For the mean time, here we are shouting out: WE ARE BACK!

Turknoys!
this is the only almost- decent family photo we got all dressed up

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