assalamualaikum and hi!
syawal has finally ended. and hello zulhijjah! and not long after this raya haji pulak kan? so a quick post about our raya this year. honestly we didnt prepare much for raya. only what was essential and we were focusing more on the kids' preps. i dont know, i guess when you have kids, you kind of forget about the world because they are your world haha.
this year's raya we celebrated at my in law's kampung in hulu selangor. as usual, the menu was rendang daging, kuah kacang and ayam kicap. my husband bought a few lemang. all was good i think im still full just by mentioning the food. but rendang daging was da bomb as always (everything was) because my mil is the best cook! also my husband bought a lot of fireworks, the kids love them so much. well maybe zahra not so much because she was scared of the loud sound. everyone else were over the moon, boys kan? lol
we spent 2 days of hari raya there. near subuh the 3rd day raya we head to kota bharu. the first day was all about food dear God i was so full of rendang. and we prayed at the mosque next to our house for solat sunat raya. i brought zahra, she was so excited to go. kept on mentioning about mosque days before raya. couldnt bring muaz because he was still sleeping. after solat raya we gathered and asked for forgiveness from everyone in the family, all the hugging and crying. i love raya morning. i love the tears i dont know why i just cant describe. it was funny i cried but i like it lol. and after that we went to nenek's house and eat some more! lontong! and raya with everyone else there. later we visited my husband's late bestfriend's grave and his family. later that night we went to a relative of my mil's for raya and to my husband's friend's house. the amount of food and biskut raya? A LOT.
the next day we went to sungai klah, my fil's kampung. and oh, i got quite a stomach ache from rendang in naim's house the night before so it was a bit torturous but all was good not long after 4 visits to the loo. it was overwhelming, raya with my fil's family and i got the chance to get to know a lot of abah's family members and staying with them for a while talking about things and seeing my husband and his family mingled with his cousins, it was all great.
like i said, before subuh the day after we went to my kampung and spend the rest of our raya there. even though it was already third day of hari raya, everyone was there including my paksu and maksu and there were a wedding of our relative, so it seemed that raya was no where near ending. also, my husband made a new of kelantanese friends, his colleagues and classmates from his masters class so we got ourselves stuck in a lot of traffic jams but all was worth it because raya is about family and friends. and alhamdulillah for friends and family because they are the ones who made our raya even better. not the cookies or rendang. but family, friends. so thank you mak, abah, ibu and everyone else for making this raya the best so far for us and for zahra and muaz.
not to forget, we had a lot of ramadhan buffet this year. all thanks to my husband lol. also we managed to make time for buka puasa with our close friends and my family in kelantan. so so much food. alhamdulillah too.
ahh raya haji is next week you guys! selamat hari raya aidiladha in advance! eat lots of beef okay? intestines and gear box, all! haha ok then bye <3 p="">
love,
ansari