Eid Celebration

as we have lost our innocence in being childs, we also lost the spirit in celebrating Eid. In the last 5 years, we barely woke up to visit family members, come home n have lunch!! nothing more to it.

But as this year is the first since almost 2 years for the whole family members to gather, we wanted to bring back the old days:

Every year, we wake up the latest by 8 am when the guys come from the Eid Prayer and after greeting some family members. We gather to have breakfast which is made of the most important two dishes, Egg and tomato & Balalee6 (thin pasta with Egg). In our youth years of celebrating Eid, after the breakfast, we would be watching a cartoon that is played EVERY SINGLE YEAR for eid, called "Saheb el thel el 6aweel" (the guy with the long shadow).

After breakfast, we (girls) left to greet family members and have some fwalla (a table full of fruits, sweets, halwa, etc.) My nieces would be the one to ask for Eideya (money) and would get about 5-50 dhs for their ages. At our childhood, we used to get a maximum of 5 dhs and 50 dhs was counted ALOT;) we would gather the money and by the end of the morning or mid afternoon, we would go to the supermarket and buy SWEETS and CANDY.

Such simple days yet meant alot.

With the end of the morning as lunch time is close, we usually gather at my aunt's house as she is the eldest of my father's family. But this year as my aunts are all away, our family went out for lunch.

Time passes by, with it the old times is appreciated ....