I usually start changing her wardrobe and buy ahead, onesies, Pjs, jeggings, pants, head accessories, dresses.. you name it! I store them in her closet which is about to burst, again till she has her room room – but I seriously can’t restrain myself from buying her outfits! Lord, the shoes! She has so many! Not to mentioned what we have stashed up from her old stuff. I will giveaway what we don’t need and in condition & the rest are for memory.

En sha2 allah, I will not allow anyone to stop me from getting my girl butt naked in fear of heat! My mom wouldn’t let me dress her in sleeveless items cuz she’s “too young” but no sir! Not this time! I bought this Guess dress yesterday and she’ll fit them fine in June or May around her birthday <3

I was dying to buy her a 2 piece swimsuit and man told me that he wants to pick one for her so he got her Speedos! :) o one piece! We want to see flesh baba! They’re so adorable & I love the colors but I saw a Hello Kitty 2 bikini over  at H&M and am getting them real soon too ;p come on baba! 2 are never enough!

Waaaay too conservative B! :F

Baby shopping is agonizing! Everything I see is nice and is a “must” get piece :( I usually get her onesies from [ Next ], great value, greater quality! [ H&M ] has cute stuff. [ Bluezoo ]is cute as well and my favorite’s [ Mothercare ]. [ One Moment's ] ok when they’re on sale for the big brands but Juicy Couture is adorable! <3 She has a training suit and it’s CUTE! which will also fit just fine in by May enshallah. Other than those, day to day pjs I get from Max or CenterPoint as well as the undergarments, you see with the washing one has to buy good quality… Babies don’t come  cheap man! Allah ye7meha o we can give her our all & the best.

Just a random picture… I changed her earrings last night and I like those better!

- Sleep deprivation: Which has never been an issue to me, often have I ranted about insomnia but this takes it up a notch! Babies have intervals messing mommies day and nobody wants a cranky mommy I tell you!

- Visits and going out: I thought with DearNanny at hand, my schedule would improve thus have more time to play lil’ miss social wife or enjoy some “me time” but noo hoo! Although I love going out yet I sit down beating myself with guilt knowing that she’s waiting for me and it gets worse since she’s 100% capable of expressing her feelings as well as recognizes the lack of my presence.

- Shopping: My worst nightmare! With the weight I’ve put on and sadly couldn’t shed off add to that if she’s around I can’t take my time anymore so I window shop then try to find an excuse to hit the malls alone.

- Ear infections: Mother F*er! She turned into a mini monster! Forget about runny nose and coughs, I’ve never seen a baby in such pain and that’s a “minor” one! :(

- Baby meds and antibiotics: Again, you moFos! When you decide to make baby medication, sort out an easier way to give the same to babies! I use a syringe & literally pump it down her throat while she shrieks, kicks, spits desperately & it’s heartbreaking

- Baby food: It has to be fresh & full of nutrients so I cook a batch of veggies and add in chicken or meat and depending on her mood she’ll consume OR NOT!

- Baby tantrums: I’ve watched TV shows with nasty kids and I’ve thought “If I were mom, I’d lock that child up to cry to sleep” but things don’t work out that way, saldy.. she throws those anger fits and cries mostly when I don’t pay her attention or get busy around the place as well as outside the house and am clueless to how to get her back in shape.. SOS!!

- Baby wardrobe: Everything Pink is adorable! I feel like buying the entire world for her but am burning my pocket. As far as I could remember, I’ve wished to have my own barbie to dress up but this Mattel doll doesn’t come cheap. I love shopping for her though <3 and they grow too fast mashallah!

- Monkey business: She wants to walk.. naturally impossible at this stage yet she hangs on to stuff or climbs all over her dad & I, she even likes to use the walker by pushing it but then comes along bruising. I fear accidents and she’s so White it easily shows. She’s hyperactive as well so it takes 3 adults sometimes more to watch out over her.

- Discipline: No matter what tone we use to indicate our discontent towards a certain action, she simply ignores! Any ideas moms?!

- Say mama: All I hear is “Did” “Didi” “Ba babaaa” & “la2″! :@ dana ommek ya bet!

- Eating plastic: Remote controls are her favorite right now, everything else falls behind still in the mouth! what the hell!! Oh, she’s infatuated with mobiles as well and not just any mobile, the iPhone pls!

- Baby proofing: Although I tried my bestest best, I think I’m gonna have to keep everything boxed sooner or later or on high shelves *cries* !

- Games: I wish I could get up from bed and take a photo of the rechargeable cards we have for those arcades-games centers just to take her for half an hour, put her in something to make her dizzy to sleep ;p

After reading all of the above, kindly note that nothing compares to the puppy eyes she gives me or a hug when she’s crying 7abebti <3 I sincerely pray for all expecting mommies a safe delivery and for those waiting for this blessing to happen very soon.

AMEN

Oh, I forgot to add that I hate clipping her nails!

6ab3an, we walk in full of confidence with a big smile, greeted by the staff… mesmerized by the beautiful balloons & set up for that special occasion to be really disappointed when the waitress (or whatever her position is) informed us that it’s fully booked and we’d have to wait AND even if we wait, it’s not guaranteed that we have a table! OK! Maybe no one would cancel but man called 3 days in advance & asked and he was informed that booking is NOT required! WTF! I was so angry but I swore that that won’t ruin the evening as that lady kept on asking: “what’s the name of the person who answered?” “Maybe you called another restaurant!” <– WHAT THE HELL! So I finally opened my mouth to tell her: “What difference does it make if I give you the name?! I have a baby and I left her to come here but khalas.. YALLA let’s leave” ! Her lame excuse is that they sold tickets! No one heard of those tickets!

We got in the car, argued a bit then called The Meat Co. at Mall 360 to make a reservation and we got lucky but then traffic was a bitch… I thought to myself if we don’t make it, I’m getting me some KFC! We arrived early and the place looked “normal” or should I say “un-festive” of Valentine’s then I was surprised when they handed me a Red rose, actually all the ladies dining there got one which is a cute gesture – and it was the only rose I got yesterday!

Since I didn’t take pictures, I stole those off Google

For starters we ordered the Beef Carpaccio which is thin raw meet with the Rocca salad on top, delicious as well as the Tiger Prawns dish (No photo) which came with rice. Only take is that the portion is too little for 2! Hell for 1 even! I am so used to American diners portions!

Choice of steak was the Australian Angus Golden Fillet, 300 Gms for each – mashed potatoes, fries, veggies & sauce on the side – I also didn’t take pics but this is basically what it looks like

I always order my meat medium well – Pink from the inside and that thing was so tender, it’s like cutting through butter.. love it!Half way through dinner and on the beats of the South African drums celebrating a birthday, we were told that there’s a free photo for the couples and I said yes!

We waited for the pictures but what was sweet is that they handed over the picture in frames <3! isn’t that the cutest thing ever! What a lovely way to remember that night which was great thanks to The Meat Co.’s staff!

Thank you man for the treat :) enshallah steak every day ;p – I still don’t know what the total was btw!

[ The Meat Co. ]

This is Man expressing his feelings on Valentine’s Day!

We celebrated the “non-independence” day last year with a kid in me and it was cute! All I kept nagging about is the Mr. Baker’s cookie cake and that I got from the man but the evening took a tragic turn after eating a gigantic piece of that killer cake! TOO SWEET TOO BIG TOO LAYERED! and my mom was worried about me getting Diabetes with all the sugar intake but that was baby eating not me :/

I was surprised when he next got in a Red teddy bear and I don’t mean one of the cute – could be placed on the bed bears – NO! a stuffed bear that is actually heavier and taller than my own self!

I was like dear God! Where will I keep this thing! How do I carry it in the first place! “Mas3ood” was the name I gave it and sadly enough, he decided to move to another family ;p

Of course since us women, as the Arabic saying goes: “مايملاش عيننا غير التراب”, man was smart to get a back up gift and when I saw that specific bag with that Blue shade I was excited :) Man has good taste :*

This year is no different, I am not expecting anything since he never fails to indulge me every now & then and 7amdellah I am satisfied but I can’t wait for them steaks tonight!

P.S: I think Dear Nanny jinx us every time we inform her that we are going out on a date so I will skip this step – OK MAN!

Yeah, that’s me gone “BONKERS” !

I had a chat with the sweet lady behind BonkerBox and I sincerely apologize for not catching your name since I was too excited to try the booth out! :p I told her that I never heard of it but I remembered that a couple of bloggers wrote about BonkerBox – visit their FB page [ HERE ]  and it was a fun idea to try out during our gathering at Ruby Tuesday’s for bloggers ( A long post later on this gathering ).

Man, bloggers went bananas over the booth and props! I just thought we’d get colored photos but it doesn’t make a difference since the fun moment was captured :)

Follow them on Twitter @BonkerBox and I wish you the best of luck in the future and your project’s CUTE, regardless props in boxes or better setting ;p

For more info contact 50259366 or email bonkerbox[@]gmail.com

As the first time, they are generous with their portion which got me running till around 9:30 PM. 2 major pet peeves and one pisses me off more than the other are:

1. Salad dressing portion.. In comparison to the size of the salad I think you guys could just have a bigger container with more dressing or just add 2 ! Unless we have to order extra?! @@

2. I complained from this the first time but you either gotta change the type of onion you use (Red ones) or do something about it! Rinse it after cutting! It’s too strong on my palate and a salad is not a salad unless it contains onions! what’s wrong with shallots – scallions or regular White onion?!  I am not sensitive to onion but I had to nod to people – avoid being too close because I don’t have a tooth brush – paste on me nor had I chewing gum! Reminds me of Ramadan .. he he he

Everything else was ok, I like how the salad was diced and it is clean (Although I didn’t inspect the lettuce as I do with other restaurants) I think I was really hungry to give a rat’s ass anyways !

I bet like a lot of you, I kept on receiving email shots on deals on Souq.com; Curious as I am- I decided to register and I actually scanned each section as well as items till I laid my eye on this product:

I decided to get out my purse, punch in my plastic’s number to purchase it for Alma since she’s been showing interest in holding the spoon and plate while feeding her and if you don’t know how this works, check the video [ HERE ]

Fine so far right?! Amount (KD 5 only) was deducted from my Visa and I sat there waiting for some sort of conformation via email or phone but nothing happened! Suddenly I received 3 different confirmation receipts with totally different numbers! @@ That’s’ when i started jumping in my seat and looked but a number to contact them. 22248700 was pathetic, no one picks up besides their IVR system which is badly recorded BTW! As far as other contacts I found that they have offices outside of Kuwait and that’s when my heart sank to my feet :I I was like this is a scam specially after using my credit card!

like half an hour after, phone rang and one of their agents confirmed my order and I asked: “When am I getting it?” He replied: “Today no, Friday Saturday vacation so 2 working days which means Monday”

The number which no one picks up and their confirmation

Weekend passed by, Sunday went bye so did Monday! And I was home because of the flu so I was waiting for any sign! After giving up I sent this and I seriously meant every word and I was worried

I was so pissed off due to their negligence and disrespect to their own delivery policy

You see, it was my first time – probably the last time because of that PERSON who engaged with me on this email thread! I was going to do other purchases but I thought to myself when I secure this simple item and test their client servicing then I might go ahead and knock myself out online shopping. Of course in between those emails I was on the phone waiting for someone to answer!

In cold blood, this person sends me this as a reply! Not acceptable, WHY?

1. Greeting – whole email style is poor wala punctuation wala nothing!
2. When a client sends an email from the first time you answer on the spot.
3. You’re supposed to be professional not as casual with clients using slang “you gonna”! <– Yo Yo !
4. Your answer wasn’t helpful since I know it’s been confirmed DUH!
5. According to your delivery policy, my item should have been at my doorstep on Monday MAX. noon time and you dare even mention a Wednesday! @@
6. I freaking paid my money ahead not upon delivery so I get some priority!

I was raging after this so I started being rude!

Yes I called them thieves and as a bad desperate strategy I even lied! :@ When you promise your clients something better make sure you can fulfill it! I really ticked off by bad client servicing.

And you guessed it right! NO ONE CALLED OR EVEN BOTHERED!

I left the mobile expecting a phone call to explain this or apologize at least for the delay but no one called and when I checked I found an email (which I can’t find in my inbox) but it clearly said and I am quoting this person:

You can cancel your order :) and we will return the money

AIWA! Mo ana sha77ata! AIWA! Yeah, RETURN MY 5 KD! Instead of being professional enough to apologize and go check on the matter then get back to me you advise me to cancel! la2, you know what I thought after this!? KEEP the damn 5 KD but I won’t spare you my mouth! I actually replied saying “Go ahead, make my day and cancel the order”! <- I can’t find this email thread at all! :@

Hmmmm! My reply was long – honest and I basically told him -her that they can go ahead and blacklist me if they want because they’d be crazy to think I would do any business with them in the future especially with this type of replying! la2 o el “regards” is the best part of this reply!

And most importantly of course is the threatening! I might be one of the nicest “worst” clients they might ever have to handle and this is what they reply with!? tsk tsk tsk! I didn’t give a crap honestly after that instead, I asked Oleana for the same item and she told me that’s in her next shipment so I booked one.

Yesterday around 3esha prayer (I think) I got a phone call from an unsaved number and I usually don’t pick up but this time I did. Hi’s and Hello’s Guy introduces himself as Youssef from Souq.com @@ – Was very quiet and relaxed on the phone and he asked if I had ordered something! I was like “ana fashakht el bala6 eb your employee over emails” = I gave your guy a hard time for my order – and last thing I know that it got canceled!! he assured me that it wasn’t and I got to dish out on the whole incident. Like a decent professional gentleman he apologized on behalf of his colleagues and started explaining… Now, I told him I don’t buy this excuse at all but them being under pressure because of their iPhone – iPad deal is not my issue, all I wanted instead is a follow up email – call and I would have been quiet. Thanks Mr. Sha’arawi for the phone call and for tolerating me over the phone, I know you are trying to do your best. :)

To cut this short, I got my Gyro bowl!

I am totally aware that this in the hands of my daughter will not be 100% spill proof but I think it’s a good option! It comes with a lid on for protection.

Dear Souq.com, I apologize for not extending our relation further after this incident although I got my item, your employee handling the emails was rude, unprofessional and he failed to keep his end by canceling my order.

And sadly enough, this is the email I get straight after I received the item:

All my respect and further business growth in the future.

I celebrated my birthday on January – Friday 13th! and although the majority tend to be superstitious about that freaky date, mine was relaxing, full of love and wonderful! Clueless as I was to the surprise in the making, I helped my family a lot by providing them time for the cake to arrive as well as dinner so I went home to check if Dear Nanny had things done then left to my parents house… What no one knows except Julie ;p - LOL – is that playing on Instagram at my place, I managed to take a shot of this bug on our window

After that I was checking the Feed and spotted my name on a cake !

HAHAHAHAHA- Sorry Julz but that was sincerely funny!

So I kept quiet, played dumb and watched them buzz around the house trying to keep things ready and my husband was asking: “what do you wanna do tomorrow on your b-day?” or “I’ve got the feeling that I’m gonna mess my diet tonight” LOL !

I excused myself to go pray – more time for them to set the cake down and gather waiting for me ;p and it happened! All the clapping and singing! God, I am anti birthday celebrations :/ I’d consider every day my birthday if I’d receive gifts! >:)but what was really cool is having my Birthday cake done by Julie of [ A Little Sugar ] ! I’ve always wondered what they’d create – design for me and it came out beautiful as all her work.

A cute fully decorated cupcake on top of a Pink cake! So I’m full of sugar it seems ;)

Another view of “Me”

I love the details – which are all edible btw – on the cake!

That’s the top of the cupcake lady on top of the cake base – how cute! All is fondant covered and everything again I say is edible!

The saddest part was having to cut through the cake so we removed Mrs. Cupcake and dug in the cake base

Dear lord, if i hadn’t enough self control that things would have been eaten up by me! I took a thin slice of this chocolaty, yummy YUMMY goodness! OMG! The thing about Julie is she understands what her clients want and my husband told me he didn’t request a specific flavor but she know what I like :) chocolataaaaa <3

And because we got too curious on what was filled in cupcake lady, we cut through it to find a White cake with cream and cherries I assume! Equally delicious and fattening!

I was so happy to see the family gathered around the table, specially with Alma clapping (she does :) ) and smiling, my first birthday with her and enshallah many more to come. I was so happy that Mrs Julie managed to squeeze my cake on her already fully booked schedule because she’s always booked in advance mashallah!

I am happy that i got gifts: a Michael Kors watch, a Green ensemble which makes me look like a tree and I tweeted it and got hugged for it ;p

and my husband got me an Aigner watch! <3 My family knows – can understand my obsession to that brand! I have several watches of different colors to match any color I wear and the latest is a Black – Silver one with Pearl dial off the latest collection At Geneve Novelties..

The full “A” – Love the color BTW! Need Red ;p E7emmm

Thanks to those who made this memorable, thanks to Julie for the cake, thanks to those who sent in their b-day greetings and thanks Man for the gift and Alma :*

Previous posts on A Little Sugar read [ HERE ], [HERE ] & [ HERE ] or you could follow her on Twitter @A_LittleSugar & her FB group link’s mentioned in the beginning of this post.

Kan youm aswad o man7oos, the day we decided to “go on a date” as Dear Nanny called it – thinking of it now I think she might have been the one to jinx the whole setting!

You see, Since Pregnancy and needless to say akeed, every since delivery I have not been to the movie theater because of my sacrifice (LOL) and having no time for me and honestly speaking, we didn’t like what was showing so we opted to wait for [ Sherlock Holmes ] specially after the 1st part and I still remember how excited we were even after leaving the cinema. Since CinescapeQ8 have a Twitter account [ HERE ], I though I would ask because I was confused about the booking date. We wanted to go on a Friday and our booking was after 12 Am. They didn’t reply…

I dress up, take kid over to grandparents and ensure all house chores are done. At 11 PM, man & I head to the Avenue – I originally wanted to go to 360 but I swear to God I stayed on their stupid iPhone application more than 2 hours trying to book and it kept giving me an error message and I am stupid I didn’t snap that to keep as evidence! Even booking online was equally disgusting! 1. Couldn’t access my account!!! 2. Didn’t show vacant seats! So we ended up going to Mohallab to use the kiosk machine – ALSO SPENT LIKE 15 MINUTES because it just kept logging off! Let me stay on track here:

Again, 11 PM we head to the Avenue in spite the fact that we were an hour early but we wanted to avoid traffic, lines at their snacks bar  and most importantly be there first to watch the ads. After we bought everything I wanted to use the toilet before entering the movie and that security guy (Who happens to be Egyptian) advised us to wait… OK I WILL HOLD IT! After like half an hour I tell da man I need to go! I head towards the same guy and I go like: “3am, I really need to use the bathroom!” <– He looks at me, lets me in! ALTHOUGGGGGH we are god damn entitled to stay in the lobby – area if he takes the tickets! WTH! We pay so much for a censored movie and over priced snacks and we don’t get to use the lu! El mohem, I returned to the man and we saw the que forming to enter the movie so we stood. We are now like 5 seconds away for being allowed to go in the area in front of the movie hall and the man (The Egyptian dude) looks at the ticket and goes like: “El film etlaga” <– movie was canceled!! 55555 freaking minutes before it starts! So I looked at him and went like: “You knew it was canceled, why didn’t you inform us!” because it doesn’t make since that he was just informed, we didn’t see anyone coming out of the hall and the whole thing was full of contradictions! Man got pissed off and they were gonna fist fight :/ but people managed to pull them off. As advised by one of their security I dunno dudes in dishdasha, we head to client service guys and people were enraged! Everybody wanted to exchange or redeem money as the guy told us but since we don’t get to go out alone that much we decided to watch anything… Adam Sandler’s movie Jack & Jill: a complete waste of time, money and mental stability! yukh!

2 guys were covering the angry crowd and they had such an attitude man, only thing left for them to do is start swearing at people or beat them up! They were very rude especially the dark one! la2222 not that only! He shouted at a customer in front of us and as I asked him if he needed money from us he misheard me and told the other guy: “Ge6lehom flooshom” ! <– Throw their money at’em ! MF ! …… 3aleik bas it is our fault that we are decent with you! #Etfouh !

1. We came to know movie was canceled 15 minutes earlier and we were not informed.

2. Dishdasha guy said that KNCC sent emails apologizing for the inconvenience and informing people about the cancellation which never happened.

3. Dishdasha dude said if you don’t use the tickets today, you can some other time as other theaters were informed and I think that’s one big fat lie since no one notified us online

4. Again I asked the Twitter person and there was NOTHING, NO REPLY and after some time they decided to tweet on what happened! maskhara! That person even is not into what’s happening. Only thing that person does is Retweet and announce movies release!

Toz! I am not going to go to watch a movie there again (and that’s for now who knows what will they be showing in the future) ! but what reallllllly pisses me off is their tweep – the dude handling their account either has ordered not to reply to inquiries which is stupid because you’re misusing your social media medium or doesn’t understand English… some have suggested that it’s a Robot! lol sending automated tweets but no, they retweet good feedback and neglect – block – delete the actual ones which could help them fix their services – shame, you cant take criticism!

On a more desperate and very angry note, I decided to call & file a complaint against that person’s neglect to tweets and the reply – attitude I got was really bad, as if they don’t give a shit about what people have to say.

As Kuwaiti’s say: “Elsharha mo 3aleikom” – “Shame on us – it’s our fault” for wasting money on your tickets, crappy smelly halls and overly priced popcorn which got me poisoned the next day making spend new year’s eve at Dar El Shifa hooked to an IV drip!

I’ve always wanted to do ONE thing for a long time and while we were at the Avenues, I dropped by [ Build-A-Bear ] (Phase 2 upper floor) & gladly fulfilled my fantasy:

ONE

Head towards the hair accessories stand and picked up a suitable wig for the kid, in this case the Light Brown was fine  – she’s too young to go Madonna on us!

TWO

Miraculously placed wig on kid’s head and snapped as much photos as we can before she pulled it away and into her mouth! Ha Ha! Mashallah it suits her well ;)

P.S: That shop is way too cute! Y’all, specially with kids gotta try it out soon… Oh! Make sure you have enough money cuz your avarage teddy + accessories would not be less than KD 20!