Week 17

Hello everyone! 

I hope you are all doing great. I look forward every week to compile my photos, post them to the blog and see how it reflects my week. Believe me it is not a true reflection of my day or the whole week. I try to take out just five minutes each day to take the photos and the rest of the whole day goes by in a whirl. There is a lot of mess, laughter, cries and smiles behind the camera and that is what actually makes my day more interesting. It is still amazing for me to see the photos I take and think about what happened that day. It is one of the reasons why I am loving this 365 project because at the end of the year I can check my blog and when I see the photo of the day, I would know exactly what happened when I took it.

Just like everyone owning DSLR cameras, I have thousands and thousands of photographs. I like to print out my photos every now and then and post them on my photo wall at home. However, I hadn't updated my wall in a long time, eventhough I take photos pretty much non-stop. I had bought a couple of collage photo frames when my son was born, to post his photos in them but never got around doing that till now. This week I finally finished one of those frames and now it proudly hangs in our hallway visible from my kitchen where I can see it all the time. Its the 5th photo of the week. I encourage all of you to print out and post photos because in this digital age we take tons of photos but always slack on printing them out and posting them around the house where you can see it everyday.

Here are my photos of the week:

Day 113
For my friend Bree. May she always stay healthy, happy and strong

Day 114
Cake from my favorite bakery in the city "Finale"

Day 115
This is me on the weekend just enjoying a drive while my hubby takes us around 

Day 116
Beautiful spring day perfect to just go out and enjoy with the family at a local park

Day 117
My long awaited project is finally finished. Zain's photos are finally getting up on the walls 

Day 118
Beautiful day for a walk and taking photographs

Day 119
Park play never gets boring

Have a great weekend everyone. It is getting warmer and nicer each week so time to go out and have fun. Thank you for checking out my blog and keep reading!

Week 16

When I started this blog my intention was to write about my feelings, experiences and dreams but it I was living in a fairyland obviously because I cannot for the life of me get time to write a meaningful paragraph let alone a whole article. 

Then came the idea of Project 365. I was sold on it because it combined my passion for photography and I could squeeze in a paragraph here and there. It is not the ideal thing but its the best I can do right now. 

Back to my weekly thing; it was a very confusing week, weather-wise. It's supposed to be spring time but the weather is still pretty cold. You see the sun out and think, it is a great day to go out but you step outside and freeze to death. This New England weather needs to give us a break. At this rate we will miss spring altogether and just land into summer. My favorite day of the week was definitely going to the Public Garden in Boston on the weekend. Seeing everyone out, enjoying the spring like weather even though it wasn't as warm as we would like to be, was great. You could see on everyones face how glad they were to put this miserably long snowy winter behind them and be outside again. I can't wait to go back in a couple of weeks when the tulips bloom and I can take tons of photographs.

Here are my photos from the week:

Day 106
Walked at the lake while enjoying this beautiful scene on a sunny spring day

Day 107
Museum day with my toddler

Day 108
Spring away

Day 109
Sunday spent in the city is the best!

Day 110
Monday was homemade pizza day 

Day 111
After a rainy day it was nice to be out waving at the birds again

Day 112
Walk at the reservation gave me the opportunity to capture this when we stopped to play for a bit

Enjoy the weekend, spend it with you family and friends and let them know how much you appreciate them because everyone likes to hear that every once in while. I'll be back next week. Take care!!

Week 15

I cannot believe that I reach the 100 photo milestone in this post. Where did the time go? How did I keep it up? I am pretty proud of myself for reaching here because believe me there are days when I lack inspiration or am just tired from the daily grind.

Another highlight of the week, we finally hit Spring weather. It was beautiful almost every day of the week and therefore we were out each day. Over the weekend we had family fun outdoors. Had our first ice cream sitting outside this year. We have the cutest little farm fives minutes from us that has the best ice cream and a small petting zoo area. Its the go-to place for everyone in good weather and was packed when we went. Zain had a lot of fun looking at the cows, chickens, turkeys, goats and even the mule. He felt so liberated without a jacket on and just had a ball running around.

During the week, we went for walks with our friends and ofcourse the park. It was just so great being outdoors again. Here are my photographs from the week:

Day 99
Baked Eggplant parm

Day 100
New buds 

Day 101
Waving Hi to each other 

Day 102
Out at the farm 

Day 103
Just hanging out with my friend

Day 104
Enjoying some music at the library

Day 105
Leading the way

Wishing you all a great weekend. Remember to check back my blog weekly. Take care and happy Spring 2015! ❃ ❃ ❃

Week 14

It seems like life is whizzing by. These past couple of weeks even months have gone by so fast that sometimes I have to take a moment to absorb how much life has changed. You get so engrossed in daily life that you need to take a step back to comprehend all of it. I am so blessed to have the life that I have. I should be more thankful to Allah for giving it to me and say my prayers more regularly, but that is something I need to work on to be a better person. 

Coming back to the daily chaos in my life. The week was full of activities. The weather was better, so we took advantage of that and played outside a couple of times. There was one freaky day where it Snowed yet again but thankfully it didn't last for too long and turned into rain.

I love sushi and it is my go-to food for the days I don't feel like cooking or am out doing some activity with Zain. So if it gets too late to cook, I bring sushi home for dinner just like this day. 

Day 92
Take away sushi for those days when I don't feel like cooking 

Zain loves this play area we have outside our building. This was his first time trying to climb this structure. 

Day 93
Play time at the park 

Craved some desi food so decided to try out a new restaurant in another town. The town's square was very beautiful and made for a great photo-op, so we took advantage of it.

Day 94
Outside after lunch

Sunday was another windy weekend day. We had planned to go to the Boston Children's Museum. Somehow until now, we have not been able to take Zain there. Every time we made a plan to go there, some thing came up and it would get postponed. So before the really nice weather hits us, we decided to use the weekend day to check out this wonderful Museum and boy did we love it. We went with our friends, who have a son around the same age as Zain and they both had a blast.

Day 95
Sitting outside the Boston Children's Musuem

It was haircut day again! Zain hated it as much as the first time. Even the prize at the end didn't cheer him up too much.

Day 96
Collecting his prize after the haircut

Rainy day brought this gloomy scene with just a little pop of color.

Day 97
O Spring! Where art thou?

Homemade banana oatmeal cookies with lots of nuts and seeds in them to make it a high fibre breakfast or snack option. They turned out pretty good for a first attempt. I found the recipe on Pinterest. You can click on link above and you can view it.

Day 98
Banana Oat and nut breakfast cookies made by me

Hope you liked this week's post. Have a great weekend and keep reading my blog. Until next time ☚

Week 13

Last week was all about Easter despite the fact we don't even celebrate it. You start to realize how commercialized all these holidays have become when people like us are starting to engage in such activities. Everywhere you go, there is some sort of advertisement for Easter. The funny thing is you don't get to know what it really stands for unless you read about it. All you see are bunnies and eggs. 

The kids obviously love the egg hunts and the goodies filled inside the eggs. The parents get involved in all of this because of the children. Zain is a bit too young for all of it this year but we still took him to a breakfast with bunny event around our area. Ofcourse, he was scared of the life-sized bunny (who wouldn't be in their right mind). We hardly got a photograph of him with the bunny. The other fun thing we did was an indoor Easter playdate at my friend's place. With all the kids being the same age it was great to have a friendly egg hunt in her living room because there was still left over snow in her backyard. I don't think at this age they really grasped the concept of the egg hunt yet but nonetheless they enjoyed playing with the eggs and opening them to find interesting things in them.

The weather is finally getting better and we enjoy going outside to play in the park or just take a walk around the neighborhood. It is so refreshing to be outside and not freezing to death. Here are my week's photographs:

Day 85
Very random silhouette selfie on a cold windy day

Day 86
Z watching his favorite show Curious George on TV

Day 87
Z and his buddy taking a ride in the ice cream van at the mall

Day 88
All eggs set for the easter playdate

Day 89
Spring is no where in sight, so we had an indoor egg hunt with the kids

Day 90
Library Fun; Z is standing front and center listening to his fav brown bear book

Day 91
Walking away from this winter towards spring maybe?

Happy Spring to all of you and lets hope for see some leaves and flowers soon. ❀