It's been a minute since I was last here. It's been work, work, and more work. It's amazing how you can be so busy but seem to get nothing done at the same time. Anyway here I am!
We have a Company Family Day coming up in early February and I registered myself as a volunteer. There'll be games like basketball shots, egg and spoon races, sack races (you'll never catch me in that!), hit the target, for kids, ladies and adults (mixed). Yes!!! Mixed games for adults!!
I am amazed that there actually will be games to be played as a family. I have to see this. I want to see our normally kandoora and abaya clad selves letting ourselves go with our children. I foretell that embarassment will prevail in the office for a week or so after the day but I want to be one of those who dares to be a kid again even if it's just for a day.
Enough of the lowered voices and stiffened backs, the computer elbow will be straightened out on that day. On that day we will not hear the quiet rustling of bakhoor (incense) soaked abayas, the smart clacking of Christian Louboutins and the more aggresive whooshing of the men's (also bakhoor'd) kandooras. We will be wearing sports clothes under our abayas, Converses, Nikes and Reeboks on our feet.
Yeah! We need a good time too although I am the idiot who has agreed to be a volunteer at the kid's games section. I'm sure I will regret it, but I really enjoy the company of young people, including my own, so I will take the good with the bad. I think I've taught my own kids well but can I say the same for some of the rest of the people I work with? But I won't let that dampen my enthusiasm.
Ya Allah give me patience with all little monsters I may encounter, (including my own). *Smile*
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