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. ❀

Week 12

This week came and went by too quickly. We had more snow which is not even news anymore because it seems like winter is never going to end. It is becoming more challenging to keep this project going. I try to keep up but lets see if I can make it through the year. 

Here are my photos of the week. I was not able to take my camera everywhere with me this week and therefore there are mostly iPhone photos of the places outside of the house but I got some photos of Zain playing in the house with a few of his favorite toys.

Day 78
Reading intently a book about how daddy acts in a family

Day 79
All good things must come to an end; like these flowers my hubby brought

Day 80
Zain not happy with his footie jammies

Day 81
Beautiful wedding cake on display at the Wedding Expo I went over the weekend 

Day 82
Little dinosaurs marching away 

Day 83
Cars and trucks are Zain's favorite toys now

Day 84
Thinking how do I get this farm to function properly?

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are back to the week's grind. Until next time, take care!

Week 11

The past week was so much fun. We visited the New England Aquarium for the first time with our son Zain, who is 16 months old now. This outing was long overdue because either a snow storm or some random event has been popping up every weekend for the past couple of weeks and we have not been able to take him there. 

Might I add, Zain has been getting very excited to go see fishies (as we like to call them), turtles, sea lions and penguins thanks to me and YouTube. I have been showing him their videos, in addition to the books and toys he has of these animals. Once in the Aquarium, he was very fascinated by all the different kinds of fish. So colorful and with varying sizes. I think he was a little overwhelmed by the main fish tank in the middle of the Aquarium that is almost 3 stories high. He also liked the sea lions. It was a bit cold where the indoor/outdoor pool for the sea lions was located and he said so himself because we actually went there without wearing our jackets. I think besides looking at all these animals in real, his favorite part was selecting a stuffed animal out of the hundreds on display to take home with him. So we got him a turtle and a penguin to remind him of his fun trip to the Aquarium.

The rest of the week went by with our usual playgroup, library and other activities and it was great. The other highlight of the week was a wonderful dinner and flower bouquet brought home by my husband on a random weeknight. What a wonderful surprise that was and I felt very lucky to have a loving husband and a beautiful boy to spend my days with.

Day 71
Music Concert at the local library

Day 71
Spring is in the air while snow is in the background

Day 73
Penguins at the New England Aquarium

Day 74
Giant green sea turtle which is over 5 feet long and weighs 500+lbs

Day 75
Penguin family at the Aquarium

Day 76
Hubby surprised me with beautiful blooms

Day 77
Couldn't resist another Aquarium photograph

Hope you all have a great week and let us all pray that spring comes sooner rather than later. Until next time   ✌️

Week 10

What a beautiful week it has been! We hit almost 60°Fahrenheit and it felt really good. On a separate note my project has gone into double figures... yay! Goes to show how dedicated I am to this. However I didn't get around to really write much to go with this post but I have been procrastinating publishing it and it seems unfair to my photographs because they were taken on time. So here goes my week's progress. Hopefully, I will be less lazy next week.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Day 64
Experimenting with Blurrism

Day 65
Baby shower cake I decorated with my friend

Day 66
For our love of books

Day 67
Dancing colorful musical fountains

Day 68
Dinosaur day at the playgroup

Day 69
First buds of spring 2015

Day 70
The menu at JP Licks

Week 9

This week marks the end of my Alphabet February challenge. I am happy yet relieved that its over. While it was fun to have to come up with an alphabet related shot everyday, it made it much harder to keep up with the 365 project. Now that the challenge is over, I have the freedom to take the photos of my everyday life again.  

So the snow is melting away and the winter seems to be slowly but surely coming to an end. It doesn't mean that we can feel the spring weather just yet, but we have started to venture out more, with several playdates and story times at the library every week. It is definitely much better than the last couple of months we have had. 

We have made many plans for this year and it is going to be very eventful InshAllah. A lot to look forward to when the weather finally becomes more pleasant. I cannot wait for our fun adventures.

For now take a look at my weekly photographs below:

Day 57
X is for the X I found in my kitchen floor

Day 58
Y is for Yarn

Day 59
Z is for the letter Z in my son Zain's name

Day 60
Round up of my Alphabet February

Day 61
I made Biryani for dinner tonight 

Day 62
We love exploring the library before we get down to reading books

Day 63
Which way is the right way? Experimenting with my camera features

Have a wonderful weekend. Hope you get to go out and spend some quality time with your family :)