Back to normal.

Alhamudulillah, our little boy is back to normal now. It was just his runny nose making him irritated. Now he can stay beside us playing with his toys, alhamdulillah.

Well, my girls are also doing fine, now, alhamdulillah. After we got rid of that Shaitaan Box-TV, they both have memorized a new surah. I think when we're without TV, we have silence which brings us time to reflect the verses of the Quran. And I find kids playing more creatively when they're without cartoons.

TV...a Shaitaan Box??

This month, after Ramadan, I realized one thing...

We've been working on hifz for around 6 months or so, and mashaAllah, my girls were picking up well. However these days, they're having a big trouble memorizing one surah, both of them!

Duing Ramadan, they've memorized 7 suwar, but they haven't memorized even one surah after Ramadan... It's true that we concentrated on reviewing for a while and didn't go further to study new surah, but it's been like a week or so since we started the new part, but they haven't memorized yet. I was wondering why, and found out one thing, that is... TV!!

We didn't have TV for a long time... we didn't feel a need for it, and we were having peaceful time without it. However, recently my parents have given us their used TV,thinking we must be boring without it! After that, our life has changed. Children would watch cartoons and other useless programs whenever they have time. Me and my husband would just turn on TV and see what's going on there-usually useless programs. Our house was filled with Quran recitation before, but now filled with this useless noisy sounds!! I guess it's also giving bad influences on my daughters' hifdh progress, too.

In my husband's country, they call TV a Shaitaan Box in their language. I really think it's true. It really is a Shaitaan. Of course sometimes they do have good educational programs, but most of the time, it's filled with haraam. Alhamudulillah, I'm happy that I realized again. We don't need this, really!! I asked my girls' opinions, too. They also agreed that TV is useless and harmful for the reason that we forget about Allah when we're watching it. My husband also said that he feels TV is making him lazy. So, now the case is closed, TV is going to be removed from the plug and sleep in the closet...

O Allah, please make our house filled with love of You, love of Islam, and make it filled with the sweet sound of Quran always...Ameen!!

Dealing with a toddler...

Here I am, still having the timing problem... The main problem is the one-year-old son. He just can't sit and play like before when we're schooling. He cries asking me to carry, or breastfeed, or just to get some attentions. Carrying him is OK, I can carry him and still continue schooling, but he won't be satisfied with it, that's why it's been difficult these days. Plus the day is becoming shorter everyday due to the season change, which makes me feel more running out in time.

As I wrote before, he was OK before, he would sit and play with toys nicely when both of his sisters were being schooled, or one of them would sit with him and play when the other one is being schooled. Maybe it's just he's feeling irritated because he's having runny nose these days, or maybe he's now grown up and not like a small baby as he was before...

The problem is I haven't been able to finish all the daily routine(Quran lesson, Hifz, Ad-Duha , and Calvert...) these days, even if I did, I get very exausted at the end of the day... Ad-Duha actually doesn't take much time, but the Quran lesson takes about 2 hours, and the Calvert takes about 3 hours I guess, only if I don't get interruputed by the boy. Usually it takes more time for I have to stop and deal with him several times during the class... Maybe I should do the Quran lesson after fajr... My girls don't get up for fajr for now, but if they do get up, that might be a quiet peaceful studying time for them, inshaAllah...Well, I'd like to give it a try maybe from next week, inshaAllah... Hope that'd be a good solution.

Time is not enough!

Well, I guess I'm really not good at time management. Sometimes I can't get my daily routine done in one day. These days my one year boy is giving me troubles, too, which makes it difficult to stick to the routine...

Actually, there are more other things I'd like to do with my girls, but now, getting the normal routine done itself is hard, when we're all finished, it's like already Maghrib time! Well, I guess I really need to think something...

Reviewing...

This week, I decided to concentrate on reviewng the suwar they have memorized already. I didn't take much time reviewing up till this time, but now I realized how important it is to review! Children DO learn fast, but they FORGET fast, too!! So it's really important to take some time to review always. Well, I've learned my lesson. So we're not going to the next step untill they review all the suwar.

Ramadan is over!

Ramadan is finally over, it flew by so fast, really!

Alhamdulillah, it had been a wonderful month, and I miss it so much. It was the first time fasting with children, our two girls have fasted for six days total, mashaAllah. And they have memorized 7 new suwar each. So the Ramadan Tree that we made got filled with all the leaves and fruits at the end! Alhamdulillah!

And I have read the whole Quran by recitng one Juz a day, and I recited the last Juz with two girls, and we all made Dua together. I couldn't go to masjid to pray Taraweeh, for my baby would cry, but I managed to pray it at home for some days, alhamdulillah. I, too, have memorized 7 new suwar just as my girls did. Those were the accomplishments.

And my one-year-old boy has learned to make ruku'u and sajdah along with us at the end of Ramadan, and mashaAllah, it's cute.

During Ramadan, I was able to see many sisters who I met after such a long time, alhamdulillah. That was also wonderful.

So It had been a wonderful month on the whole, I really thank Allah for giving us such a month.
May Allah continue to guide us all the muslims in the world to the right path, ameen!!