First Fast of Ramadan
And we went out and bought a fridge!
I am trying to make all the Tarawih prayers (the special extra night prayer) this month.
Last year, I did most of it at home (I’d like to say 20 out of the 29). This year I will try to go to the masjid and benefit from the experience of my brother’s recitation as he leads us.
Our masjid does 8 rakat (each prayer or salah consists of a number of rakah/repetitions). Some others do 20. You might think well we only do 8 so we finish quickly. This is not so, he recites longer passages from the Qur’an. And it is beautiful even if I do not understand it all.
As to the fridge, mom finally had enough. Two years ago when we were leaving for Hajj, our fridge was in its sometime-ish mode and we weren’t even sure it was working. We left it plugged on with water bottles inside and went and hoped for the best. Since we’d gone through a few months with it being on-again off-again, it was easy to clear it out. It’s been like that since and finally mom fed up enough.
And since we all hate the side-by-side fridge and don’t want to worry about tricky circuit boards, we got an ordinary/traditional top-freezer model. FINALLY I WILL BE ABLE TO FIT DECENT TRAYS IN THE FRIDGE!
Woohooo.
Today is the 2nd of Ramadan. Last night we prayed the 2nd Tarawih. And this morning we had our 2nd Suhur (morning meal) to start our 2nd fast.
I got up for suhr! I had 2 pieces of my frittata thing and 2 slices of bread. Insha Allah that staves away the headachey feeling.
Comment by Chennette — Friday 13th, August 2010 @ 9:35 am
WOwee. Your frittata thing.
Acid thing…*sigh*
Our niece did not wake up to join us today. Alhamdulillah.
Oh did I forget to mention that?
Comment by Lilandra — Friday 13th, August 2010 @ 12:39 pm
Ramadan greetings check this out http://www.myhalalkitchen.com/
Comment by isme — Friday 13th, August 2010 @ 12:54 pm
Hey isme, thanks!
Those pictures of dates on the first page look nice!
Comment by Lilandra — Saturday 14th, August 2010 @ 6:22 am
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