All about me.....

I came to a realization this morning. And I don't know how I didn't think of this before.....

But for the first time in 6 yrs.....this visit of my husbands is going to be all about me. SubhanAllah! Everytime he comes to visit, I get the house organized the way he likes it...I have his clothes all cleaned and ironed and ready....I take his suits out of the suit bag and air them....I buy those smelly sachets and put them in his closet....I re-wash all his underclothes....I put a brand new pen in the drawer beside the bed....the kind that clicks, because that's what he prefers. He likes cinnamon gum..so I also get a few pkgs and put it in the same drawer....along with his car keys, his Egyptian I.D......

I buy pop and keep it in the fridge, I arrange his colognes on the dresser the way he likes it....I shine all his shoes...(at least 15 pairs!).....I buy him a new miswak, go buy him head and shoulders shampoo, cuz that's what he likes....put the nail clippers on top of the dresser, so that they are always in reach and he doesn't have to ask me for them.....should I go on?

I have the carpets cleaned, I wash the walls, cuz he doesn't like to see dirty smudges around the light switches....I make sure there is not ONE speck of dust in the house, because I know that his eyes will fall upon it, if I miss it!.....I buy him hair cream....he likes to use it occasionally....I buy breadsticks..because he likes snacking on them.....I make cookies....the kinds he likes.....on the day he arrives, I always make mehshi. Stuffed cabbage leaves, grape leaves, eggplant, zuchinni and gr peppers. Only one time did I make macaroni bechamel.....and he expressed his surprise. He didn't say good or bad....but I know he prefers mehshi.

This visit I'll be making stuffed pigeons to go with the mehshi.....and duck. My ducks. Remember that I was raising them in the villa? Well..I had the maid slaughter them and clean them. So these ducks will be quite tasty. What else?

Well, after looking after all the little things that I know he likes....I take care of me. I do all those wonderful things that a wife does for her husband. I make sure I am ...clean. U know what I mean.......sometimes I put a rinse in my hair......I get out all my nice perfumes....Oftentimes I buy new sheets for the bed.......I get out the night clothes, the nice outfits to wear at home. I make sure that all my clothes are hanging in my closet ironed. Should hubby say..."let's go out!" I don't like to make him wait an hour while I iron and put outfits together. From the things that I do to take care of me...u know what I like the most?

The perfume.

Ahhhhh....the intoxicating smell of it. I never wear perfume when hubby isn't in the country. So I enjoy it so much when he's here.....and again...I only wear it at home. For many years, the perfumes I use have only been three...they are....

Ciara by Revlon - so sexy and mysterious!
Organza by Givenchy - A good standby....a lighter scent than Ciara
First by Van Cleef - lighter still...the kind that you smell only when you lean in close....

So I have this habit with other perfumes....I have a few boxes of other stuff around....White Shoulders....some Elizabeth taylor.......and another one that has escaped my memory....but those scents aren't for me...they are for my sheets. My bedroom has to smell beautiful. I like my room to smell like a woman.....not like smelly running shoes and manly smells. Ohhh nooooo....my room smells soft and sweet......I spray the sheets and the pillow cases.....even the duvet cover. Sometimes I catch my girls in the room and they tell me, they just like the way it smells in there.

Anyways.....I do all these things every time.....and even now....I'm preparing the same things. Ohhhh sure....the nice lingerie doesn't fit so well...HAHA.....and most probably I'm spending the entire 20 day visit "unavailable"....LOLOL! But even so.....I must be prepared.

So where was I? Oh yes, the realization....

I realized that for the first time....this upcoming SHORT visit is all about me. I'm the one who is going to be pampered....I'm the one who is going to be saying..."can u make me a cup of coffee?"....I'm the one who is going to be eating breakfast in bed.....subhanAllah! It's going to be about me!

It's not that I haven't been spoiled before....I surely believe that I am very spoiled.....but in ways that money can spoil you....not in love and care and attention. Those three things, I'm sadly lacking. And I so look forward to this little bit of ME time.....no matter what happens afterwards.

I think it will be fulfilling, insha Allah.

And I've been thinking about the children.....as much as this time is about me....I really want them to benefit more. There are some things that should be taken care of concerning them...and I'm going to make sure that my husband steps up to plate.....

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On another point.....I've finished the laundry.....YAY!! The one thing that hung sorely over me, was this laundry. The washing machine has been fixed and I've been faithfully washing away. Thinking that if I just perservere, that I CAN DO THIS! ALhamdulillah. Baby clothes to be washed this evening.

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I have more to say....and insha Allah...I'll post again this evening....