Week 18

The air feels warmer, the trees look alive, flowers are blooming everywhere around us and thats how we know that spring is in full swing.  This has been an exceptional week, with beautiful weather everyday. It seems unreal to have such great weather and be out and about after such a long and brutal winter. So grateful to Allah for bestowing upon us this blessing, in addition to innumerable others.

Obviously, considering the fact above, we ditched the library events for the park. I feel this trend is going to continue till the end of summer or how ever long the nice weather lasts. 

Our week started with a visit to the grocery store. It is so much fun doing this ritual with Zain now because he can name most of the regular items like milk, eggs, bread, cheese, fruits and veggies. As we go aisle by aisle, I keep asking him what do you want to get and he keeps listing the items. The best thing about this technique is that time goes by really fast and thankfully he doesn't get bored. 

The rest of the days we just went to the park to play or attended playgroup. So pretty much everyday there was some outdoor activity. Those of you who have toddlers, already know how much energy these little people have. What I try to do is take Zain out in the morning everyday. This way he gets all his energy out by being active. Then he takes a nice long nap in the afternoon which leaves me with some free time to finish my chores. 

The best part of the week as usual is the weekend when we have our family time together. My better half works really hard to provide the leisure lifestyle I have become so accustomed to. I am so very grateful to him in general and Allah in particular for giving me this freedom at this point in my life. Anyway, this week we had decided to keep one day to run our pending errands and spend the other day of the weekend doing something fun. We ended up going to this cute little town of Newburyport just a short drive away from us. We met a friend there for brunch and then spent a couple of hours just walking around the streets. I love old red brick buildings and this was the setting of the downtown of Newburyport. I think its also one of the reasons I love Boston because there are some parts of the city that just scream old time red brick charm. There are no skyscrapers to divert your attention from these quaint old buildings. We had a great time taking in all the shops and what they had to offer. I did a little window shopping but mostly I had a great time taking photographs. This includes taking photos of my boys and the location. I have a couple of photos from this trip as part of my week's photographs:

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Grocery shopping with Zain driving his pretend car

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Running between these structures is so much fun

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Spring comes in all colors and shapes

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Good food and great location go very well together indeed

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Hanging out with my boys at Market Square in Newburyport

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Beautiful pink blooms around our house

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Can't resist another photo from our weekend fun

Have a great weekend and considering its the Mother's Day weekend, hope you get to spend it with your mom or another mom you maybe friends with or related to. In any case let this be a celebration of motherhood, which truly is one of the greatest experiences of life itself. Love❤︎ to my mom and mom-in-law who are both great women in their own right.

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