Author: The Ninja

The Ninja is a working mother of two. You can read about her journey as an aspiring housewife at www.NinjaHousewife.com or at her website about kinda being professional and stuff at www.LailaZain.com

The Simple Pleasures of Life Through the Eyes of Children

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I pick the kids up from school and they run to me at the door…

Me: I feel like having an adventure!

Ayub: Oh yah?

Me: Yeah. Let’s go somewhere special… and have a big adventure. I want to do something fun!

Sulaiman: I like fun, Mama!

Ayub: Yeah, me too!

Me: Where should we go? What should we do for fun?

Ayub: For fun?

Me: Yeah! What’s the most fun thing you want to do? Let’s do that and have an adventure!

Ayub: I know! Let’s play ring-around-the-roses!

Sulaiman: I want to eat chocolate! Lots of beautiful chocolate!

Me: Playing ring-around-the-roses and eating chocolate? That’s the most fun you can have?

Ayub & Sulaiman: YEAH!

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Flying With Children

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Ayub had been looking forward to going on an airplane for months. He talked about it non-stop everyday. “We going on an airplane Mama? We going to fly? Yeah! We going to fly in an airplane.”

 

Shortly after take-off:

Ayub: Hey! It’s snowing! Got snow outside!

Me: That’s not snow baby… That’s a cloud.

Ayub: A cloud?!

Me: Yeah, we’re flying into the clouds.

Ayub: WOW yeah! The clouds flying! Why the clouds flying? Where’s the airplane?

Me: We’re in the airplane.

Ayub: We in the airplane?!

Me: Yes.

Ayub: Yeah. We in the airplane. Later we go outside, play in the snow.

 

20 minutes into the flight:

Ayub: Mama?

Me: Yes baby?

Ayub: Can we stop the airplane now?

Me: Oh, no we can’t…

Ayub: But Ayub don’t want airplane. It’s enough airplane.

Me: But we can’t stop now, we’re in the sky. We’re flying.

Ayub: No. Ayub want to go home.

It was an 8-hr flight.

During mild turbulence on the flight:

Ayub: OHMYGOOOOOD!!! Mama! The airplane go up and down and up and down!

Me: Yes. Sit quietly. Don’t take off your seatbelt.

Ayub: Airplane go up and down and up and then CRASH!

Me: Ayub..!

Ayub: We gonna CRASH like BOOOOOM! Hahahahahaha…

Me: Stop it…

Ayub: We gonna CRAAAAAAASH!!!!

 

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