The final preparations for getting the children off to school on Sunday are well underway in our house...
We're decluttering, reorganising, washing, cleaning, sorting... and wondering how on earth we managed to get through another LONG Algerian summer vacation....
We had our last leisurely breakfast yesterday, and the children woke singing and flinging themselves about like crazy...
Then the usual round of chores before taking a walk up to see friends who are moving out of town and whom we sadly probably wont get to see much anymore.
We see far less of people in Algeria than we did in the UK... life just flows in a different way and we're tied to family life so strongly and the rythmns that daily life here creates that moving too far from home and routine is sometimes hard... but there's a beauty and sereneness in falling into a gentle pattern of living that does good to the soul mashallah.
Oh, and there were LOTS of scones and Jam this week too....
We're decluttering, reorganising, washing, cleaning, sorting... and wondering how on earth we managed to get through another LONG Algerian summer vacation....
We had our last leisurely breakfast yesterday, and the children woke singing and flinging themselves about like crazy...
Then the usual round of chores before taking a walk up to see friends who are moving out of town and whom we sadly probably wont get to see much anymore.
We see far less of people in Algeria than we did in the UK... life just flows in a different way and we're tied to family life so strongly and the rythmns that daily life here creates that moving too far from home and routine is sometimes hard... but there's a beauty and sereneness in falling into a gentle pattern of living that does good to the soul mashallah.
Oh, and there were LOTS of scones and Jam this week too....
Salaam sis, this is Sr. Jeanna, not sure if you remember me. I hadn't blogged for quite a while, was very very very ill last year. :)
ReplyDeleteAnyway was so happy to see your blog again, I love reading it, the recipes and just the general coziness of it all. :)
Ma salaama