A mug my nephews gave it to me in my last visit to Jordan.


 

This morning, I talked with my nephews on Skype Laith and Qais 6, 4 years old. I am close to them and we have very special relationship, pretty much because I am very close to my brother (their father) who is older than me 15 years old. Yes 15 not 5.
 I don’t think my nephews consider me as their aunt, they just call me Razan. I talked with Laith and as always Laith who is very talkative and has a lot of stories to tell. He has an incredible ability to describe something that it may happened to him in a length of just 2 minutes and turn it to a long story of 20 minutes, and spice it with a lot of rich details even with the sound effects. He has a football match next week, so he show me with his ball one of the movements he learned from his football training lesson, unfortunately, by mistake the computer screen was the goal. Then my brother tried to convince him to give Qais a chance to talk to me. Eventually he did but wasn’t very pleased. Qais who is the opposite of Laith, he is very quiet, but at the same time he has very charming characteristic. I talked with him about a very big bubbles maker, I saw on the street. If you put him in front of a bubbles maker, he wouldn't pay any attention to anyone around him for couple of hours and just played with them. Actually he usually talks to them.

These are the new cards I bought today.

  I don’t want my absence to affect my relationship with Laith and Qais especially they are still in a young age. So we came up with an idea to send letters to each other every month, sometimes I put inside them little things like stickers or coins from different countries( they love to collect coins from other countries). My brother told me how they got very excited when they opened the letters. So I am glad.