I last wrote on 25th April, and now it's already the end of June..so it's been quite over a month now since i shared any stories. Well, after my final exam, me, hubby and son traveled back to Penang and then Kedah. That's why i've been a little busy and didn't have so much time to write. Anyway, the travel from Shah Alam to Penang went smooth, alhamdulillah; and Hasan behaved well in the car. He slept almost 90% of the drive.=)
Last week he has been on the flu again and coughing; maybe due to the hot hot weather back in Alor Setar. I asked my hubby whether to give him any medicine or not, and the doctor said NO. So i gave Hasan some water mixed with honey. The water must be a little warm so the honey could be mixed well. And alhamdulillah, it has been a great cure. (That's Allah's promise anyway). And at the same time, i put the baby's vicks (which smells of strawberry) on his nose and the area between the two eyes, then rubbed from the nose up to the forehead--that was the advice given by sis Farhana, who took care of me while in confinement..and it did help Hasan to breath better. One more thing, I also rubbed his chest with NR's balm, which was really effective too--this advice was given by my Mother-in-Law <3.
I've been enjoying my house-wife duty here without having to think about assignments that need to be done...books and journals that need to be read. But deep inside my thoughts, i'm constantly thinking about these stuff. :((((. But still, i'm thankful to be able to give my full attention to my son at this time around.
Oh and i've been trying to keep Hasan on using CLOTH DIAPERS :). It seems easy enough to use especially since i'm just a staying at home mom (AS OF NOW) :p. Cleaning the cloth diapers is also quite easy since after removing the stains (especially if he poops) i'll just throw them in the washing machine and it does the thorough cleaning. But the thing is, Hasan only has 6 of them now, so alternately i'll still have to use the usual diaper (we use Huggies). I guess we need at least around 12 cloth diapers to be able to fully use them without having to switch back. (That's because in a day, it needs to be changed, around 5-6 times so if these are already wet, at least we have another 5-6 for the next day. So, i'm thinking about buying more of these. BUT, since i'm not yet on allowance, it seems a bit difficult to do SHOPPING:p. Have to save up since we're only depending on hubby's salary which is mostly consumed by the CAR LOAN.hehe
Done on diapers and baby.
Today something caught my attention on facebook. I was browsing through and saw a picture of tudung(hijab) made of lycra material. I've been quite a fan of this material but didn't see this thing seriously. I did in the past thought about the material sticking to the body but didn't THINK properly. It just came to my mind and just faded away. But today after looking at the photo, i thought to myself that although we wear those express kind of tudung (tudung ekspres) where we just put on/sarung on, and choose the XL or even XXL size, and covers the body part up to the stomach, the material still somehow sticks to the body especially the chest area. So we are not actually covering ourselves and it's probably just the same as not wearing it, except that it covers the hair. Hmmm...this may be a tough decision but to cover our aurat properly, we seriously need to look into the MATERIAL that is used. There are lycra tudung that does not really drop and stick to the chest so this one is probably better. But it is hard to find, i guess. Whatever it is, we must look back and reflect upon ourselves to see whether we are following the right path or not, and whether we are truly covering our aurah or not...just some things to RETHINK about.
This is just probably my opinion and others may have a completely different perspective :)
This is just probably my opinion and others may have a completely different perspective :)
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