Goodbye 2012
Another year checked off. Tucked away into our memories with it’s good experiences and bad. I recently came across this poem through a friend. Though it speaks of a single…
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Weekend Breakfast: Crepes
To me, crepes are synonymous with my oldest sister. When she was still living in California, she’d whip up her awesome crepe breakfasts. Sisters, cousins, sisters-in-law, moms, we’d all gather…
Read MorePerspective
We go through life with all its ups and downs. When it’s good, oh man, it is good. Yet the lows can take us to depths we can’t even imagine…
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Apple Muffins
I kinda wish fall would last forever. Chilly weather (except here in Nor-Cal, it’s been in the 70s!), warm sweaters, multi-hued foliage, pumpkin anything, and apples. These muffins were a…
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Eid Al-Adha Goody Bags
This Eid my husband was out of town, 3 weeks total, and I was to fend for myself with three young children alone on the Eid. I survived. Someone give…
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Eid Treat Bags: Classroom Edition
Every year during Hajj, the Holy Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the students at my daughter’s school reenact the rites of Hajj. The whole school participates and the days are filled…
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