Reflections 2011

For a Muslim(a), the word 'New Year' doesn't make any banging difference or it's not 'something special' to celebrate. From my personal perspective,  it's merely a change of date!
But, I have to agree that it's always good to have a trace back  through the ways traveled by. This helps being Thankful to Almighty, encourages to rectify our downfalls and extract the fragrance of lessons learned... and hence I am joining my lovely friends Salma and Marie, with my REFLECTIONS of the fallen year.

It has been a wonderful year. I have made a lot of friends and learned a lot of things through them - both Islamic and life in general. There have been moments of happiness, sadness, excitements, confusions, learning...and a lot more... as a mother, woman and a Muslima. There have been gains and loses.. There were additions into our family, relatives and unexpected, sad demises as well.


As you know,  Princess Liya is my favorite abode in cyber world, and completely dedicated for my little girl. So, here I share with you the reflections from 2011, being a mother.  Lessons learned as a mother have been most precious... Motherhood taught me a lot of things which I never 'grasped' from text books. I have done a bunch of 'experiments'  which I never carried out in a chemistry or electronics labs during my school or college days.

Let me compile my posts on 'Lessons from a toddler'.

• Nothing is trivial
• Don't give up
• Patience is the best weapon {though I haven't achieved it yet;)}
• Appreciate every teeny thing
• SMILE - or Make OTHERS SMILE- (most of the times) it's an eraser to wipe out anger!
• Try to help- even if it creates some mess.. :)
• Encourage others ideas  {even if the idea sounds absurd to us}
• Explore, learn, unlearn and re-learn
• Be glad for the mess, because you can never mine GOLD without digging in the soil.
• Do what others never dare to do, thus learn from mistakes
• Celebrate every little thing in life
• There is always always a way to achieve what you wanted- never fear the heights.
• Procrastinate 'nothing'
• Love, care and love!

Indeed it was a blessed year. There have been a lot of things we are grateful to Almighty through the year. Let's learn those:

We are grateful to Almighty Allah that:

• Liya is 2, and is all spark and spunk!
• 'Princess Liya' (blog) completed wonderful 2 years on blogosphere
• We've made a lot of amazingly wonderful friendships through blogging
• We've a lovely bunch of readers
• Little Liya can talk in two languages
• We were able to visit India and meet our family and relatives
• Little Liya has started on daycare
• She's out from diaper much early
• We all have been healthy throughout the year
• Little Liya is hitting all her developmental milestones either earlier or as expected
• She has made a lot of cute little friends
• We're reading a lot of books
• Little Liya knows to scribble, color, paint, and crafting with paper and scissor...
• We've traveled to many places in US and Canada
• We've seen four wonderful seasons- enjoyed the freezing snow,  refreshing spring, blistering summer and colorful autumn
• Liya learned a handful of rhymes both in Malayalam and English
• Liya makes little stories and her imagination is flying far high.
• Liya was under nursing until 2
• She could get out from mom's milk quickly than ever expected

We are also Thankful That: 

• We were able to take part in Taraveeh Salat's (night prayers) during Ramadan, in the Masjid
• We are able to make it to masjid for most of the Friday prayers
• Liya knows how to do Salat
• Liya got a small prayer rug
• We're Muslimas.

 AND for all teeny weeny things we 'have' OR happened through the year because

*** Little drops together make an ocean***