Hi friends,

 

I am sending you this note after a nine-day holiday in Jordan, the longest of the year, which I discovered not all the Arab world shared!

 

I have around one month left to start my maternity leave (If you missed the news, yes! I am pregnant 🤰 with my third baby and due in a few weeks), and let me tell you, those nesting hormones kicked the door in and dominated my life in the holiday!

 

I spent most of it decluttering old baby clothes, donating most of my daughter’s, and sorting through my son’s to see what we could use for his baby brother on the way. Then, I washed what I wanted to keep for the baby and what got yellowed by storage. My deep decluttering hormones have been so helpful in making ruthless decisions about what to let go of. I was lucky to have my in-laws’ helper with me the whole time to help me throughout the process.

 

Another major project that I almost finished is my 10-year-old daughter’s room. It was overloaded with toys and trinkets she accumulated over the years, and she’s now ready to part with them to make room for her new interests at this age. She needed my help deciding what to keep and what to let go of, but she was more ready than I had expected.

 

Fun parts:

 

Not so fun:

 

Gratitude Moment:

 

My husband was absent during the holiday as my father-in-law had a major surgery that, thankfully, went well. It was a big scare for my kids and the family, but God mercifully answered our prayers, and Grandpa Faris is coming home tomorrow. Please pray for his full recovery.

 

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As we start a new week, I hope you have a smooth transition back to work or whatever you were up to before this holiday. I hope you make the best of the latest sunsets of the year.

Snapshot of the week: Baby clothes ready for donation

 

Here is your weekly dose of The Sunday Spark ⚡️ a newsletter listing 3 sparks that I thought were worth starting your week with: 

 

1. ✨ Inspiring short read: Bad to Great.

 

2. 🤯 Fun resource: Wayback Machine. Explore more than 866 billion web pages saved over time. It's fascinating to see how your favorite websites used to look! Take heart, they did not always look great. Check your website if you have one!

 

3. 💬 Your quote of the week: Aligned with the massive energy of decluttering that I am experiencing:

 

“Get rid of the clutter in various parts of your life to release energy. Be careful with this one, since clutter is deceptive and more significant than it looks. Clutter seems to have a disproportionate effect – at some level we feel it shouldn’t matter so much, but it does. We see it out of the corner of our eye and silently, and frequently, reprimand ourselves for it.”

 

-Bill Ford, High Energy Habits

 

( Readwise helped me find this quote. It is my favorite app to recall favorite passages in books and articles I read and now they have a new product, Reader, which will make you forget about all the other read-it-later apps)

 

 

 

 

 

See you next Sunday First name / my dear friend

 

* Note: To the best of my ability, I am trying to share content by authors who have not disappointed me, and they are hard to come by! Please let me know if any author I share about was disrespectful to Palestine.