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I started tutoring a little 5th grade boy today. Guess I'll be doing that every night this year. He wasn't happy to be locked up with me for an hour but his mom made all the arrangements and I think once he gets used to it he will be fine. He just wants to go home and PLAY after school. Getting his homework done promptly…

one more pic of my grand daughter. I am obsessed with pics as you can tell.

HELLO EVERYONE. I saw that many people had wished me a Happy Birthday. THANKS so much for remembering me. I did go to the states in June and visited my mom. ended up buying a house while I was there but I'm just renting it out.MOM IS DOING GREAT. When I got back my daughter arrived with her two little girls and they just…

Anne, When my daughter lived in Saudi We both had to wear a veil over our hair every time we went out of the house. And you are right it w's quite nice not to have to worry about fixing the hair. We also wore the long black gown, (Abaya) and so. We didn't even have to get dressed up nice. It was an easy life to just throw…

A picture of my daughter so you can put a picture with the face of SARAH.

Again let me say thanks for all your comments on my behalf. Just for the record, my daughter will NOT be covering her face , just her hair. I am sure she will do it in a very attractive way. She is a very stylish young woman. She was telling me yesterday she is experimenting with different ways to wear it. We have open…

Thanks for all of the kind words to me and sharing your thoughts. Buzz you always make me feel as though you are right here next to me talking. It's amazing how you know just what to say and Yes I am sure my mother was devastated when I married a Moslem. I keep thinking of all the pain I caused her and I am sure what I did…

Hello Dear Sneakers, I had a very enjoyable time at our beach house last week end. Mu son and his wife joined us for a day and that was lovely too. We returned on Monday and upon arriving we had a text message from my only daughter asking for our support and love in her decision to start wearing the veil. She explained how…

Lost two pounds this week. Yippee!

Lost another pound this week. Sorry I'm late checking in. We were at the beach. Phyllis

Hi sneakers, 11 more days till travel time to the states. Yes I'm excited! I won't deny that Tomorrow we are going to our beach house for 4 days. Need to enjoy a few days with my husband before I desert him. Better start getting things ready and v packed up so we can B leave after my morning swim. Phyllis

Yesterday was my oldest sons birthday 36 years old. His wife is expecting their first baby in Sept. They are sure an excited couple. Since Cheese cake is his favorite, his wife nada I attempted to make one for him. It was fun working together on the project. It tasted good too but didn't turn out as beautiful as the ones…

Lost one pound this week. Phyllis

I did finally get to sleep just before it was time to go swim this morning. But it was a beautiful morning as you can see in the pics I took this morning at the school. Now the question is SHOULD I GO BACK TO SLEEP and make up for the LOSS of sleep last night or just PLOW THROUGH THE DAY? Hope you are all sleeping now and…

Well something Or I should say some one goofed and instead of posting the ramp it looks like I posted my toes and my TV. HA HA jokes on my. I'll try not to post the ramp too. Phyllis

Here is the ramp that I told you about that I walk and jog on in the mornings. It is the way the students go up to go to their classes. I just do teach the 3rd grade and we were on the second floor. Phyllis

Here is a picture of the track at the school where I do my walk/jogs Phyllis

Hi Sneakers. It's 1:00 am here and I can't sleep. I went to bed early and then my husband came in much later and I woke up, we talked a while and now I can't go back to sleep. Decided to get up and read all the Sneaker posts. Loved the videos. I hope seeing those bluebells and hearing the peaceful chirping of those birds…

Patsy, I agree with you I think I would almost recognize you all on the streets tool It's funny how you all seem like my friends for real, well you are but you know what I mean. When I am writing sometimes, my husband says who are you writing to, and I say, well some friends in my MFP group. He just thinks I'm silly. He…

Early this morning on my way home form the swim I saw my daughter in law. She wished me a Happy Mother's day. Later on my daughter sent a message on my phone and she also sent one to her father to NOT FORGET. He had forgotten and said he was glad she reminded him. Later on my daughter and law and son took us out to dinner…

Hello. Had a nice family celebration last night everyone was all smiles, had plenty of food and laughs except for the little boy who we were having the party for. He cried almost the whole night. Only saw a smile slip out as we were all leaving. I don't think he was used to all this attention and having so many people at…

I'll be going to an AKIKA (pronounced AH Key Kah) I like to say the word, anyway we are going this after noon to this AKIKA. It is a celebration that Egyptian have anytime up to a year after a baby is born. Preferable closer to the birth of the baby but not mandatory. They invite all the relatives and friends and have a…

Yippee weighed in and lost 2 pounds. Couldn't be happier that the weight is coming off. Seems like it is coming off slower than I put it on but that o.k. I have to be patient. Phyllis

I got up yesterday and decided that I need to take a trip to the states to visit my mom. Within an hour I found a good ticket and had it booked on line and I'll be arriving in the states on the 31 of May. 24 more days!!!! I'll just stay a couple week but I had previously, decided that I would not be able to go to America…

I have been working on sewing a cloth play house for my daughter. It's the kind that you put on top of a table. She loves to play under the table so my daughter ask me if I could sew up a house for her. It's kind of like a tent but basically fabric on the table that hangs down on the sides. I'm trying to figure out how to…

Anne, When I was teaching Kindergarten I taught my students that little poem and they recited it to the parents at one of the parties we had. Brought back memories. I loved teaching Kindergarten. Back in the day when they treated the kindergarteners as 5 year olds and did age appropriate learning. Now days it is push,…

Good morning from sunny Cairo. I had a lovely long swim this morning from 5:00 to 6:00. It's an out door pool and the clouds were awesome to look at as I did back strokes. It made me think of my dad because he loved looking at clouds and finding all kinds of creatures or items in their shapes. He'd say "can you see that…

Happy May Day too all. I too remember those May Pole days, holding the long ribbons and going round and round. I don't think I remember anything about a Queen. We just wove a beautiful design around the May pole at school. Now as I reflect back on those days, I think of the poor teachers who had to organized all of us…

I lost one pound. Actually the scales said 2 but my weight fluctuates so much during the week, that I am only going to count it as one pound until I see it stay the same at the lower weight for a few days in a row. But I am way happy with another pound gone!