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        • Grateful for the little things
        • Grateful for the little things
        • Grateful for the little things
        • Grateful for the messy things
        • The weekend before Easter
      • My family time
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        • Family time
        • Family time
        • Family time
        • Family time with friends
        • Mother’s day
        • Sweetie pie
        • The proposal
      • The birthday party
    • Family pictures
      • Clementine gets ready for Christmas
      • Clementine to the rescue
      • Days gone by
      • Fun times
      • Goodbye summer
      • Happy birthday
      • Happy Father’s day and a visit to the lake
      • Happy holidays!!
      • Happy mother’s day
      • Happy Valentines day
      • Heme runs
      • Home after four busy days
      • Precious day
      • Proud
      • Sometimes it’s just not your race
      • The Run
      • Time with the boys
    • Grama
      • A busy weekend
      • Babies
      • Babysitting
      • My son, proud new dad
      • Ode to Aiden and Bennett
      • The shower
      • Time with daddy
      • To be a Grama…
      • Update on the new family!
    • videos
      • A stroll down memory lane
      • I’m not a movie star
      • Just walk
      • Lynn cooks-Don’t miss it!
      • The silent walk
      • Welcome to my world- a typical week
  • Favorite Recipes
    • Appetizers
      • Artichoke spinach dip
      • Delicious Mushrooms
      • Egg rolls
      • Potato wedges-simple and good!
      • Samosa my way
      • Yumm trees
      • Cheesies
    • Blog friends recipes
      • My friend Marci
    • Breakfast
      • Easy Hashbrown eggs
      • Egg Spinach Breakfast Wrap
      • Egg turkey bacon croissant
      • Elva and Lynz cinnamon rolls
      • Morning Coffee Cake
      • Our favorite Quiche, three different kinds
      • Saleeha’s Spanish Eggs
      • Leban and Na Na -Yogurt and mint
    • Desserts
      • Bar cookies and brownies
        • Best Lemon bars
        • Chocolate candy brownies
        • Cream Cheese Brownies
        • Mint Cookie Brownies
        • Scotcheroos
        • Toffee bar brownies
      • Cakes
        • Carrot cake
        • Chocolate cake
        • Chocolate Jelly Roll
        • Chocolate sheet cake
        • Fattima’s Huckleberry cheesecake
        • Peanut butter cheesecake
        • Richard’s Birthday Cake
      • Candy
        • Bon Bons
        • Cookie truffles
        • Peanut Butter balls
      • Cookies
        • Best Chocolate Chip Cookies with a bit of Peanut Butter
        • Delicious Chocolate Cookies
        • Delicious chocolate cookies
        • Elva’s Meringue Cookies
        • Monster Cookies
        • Patty’s cut out cookies
        • Peanut Butter Candy Cookies
        • Snickerdoodles
        • To Grandmother’s house
        • Whoopie Pies
      • Elegant Desserts!
        • Baked Alaska
        • Cream Puffs
        • Florentines
        • Ice cream mocha pie
        • Lady Finger Mousse Pie
        • Lynz Chocolate eclairs
        • Mocha Cookie Mousse
        • Peanut Butter Pie
        • Phyllo flowers and youtube
        • Strawberry Jelly Roll Dream
        • Phyllo flowers
        • Mom’s special chocolate sauce
        • Apple Goodie
      • Fabulous Fudge frosting
      • Pie Crust Dough
    • Main Dish
      • Beef dishes
        • Grama Elva’s Swedish meatballs
        • Big fun taco
        • Beef and Peppers
        • Sweet and Sour Meatballs
      • Chicken dishes
        • Apricot Chicken with peppers
        • Chicken and vegetable puff pastry
        • Chicken Divan
        • Chicken Pot Pie
        • Chicken Strips
        • Curry chicken parcels
        • Easy Delicious Chicken
        • Feta bake chicken wrap
        • Hearty chicken and red sauce
        • Teriyaki Chicken
        • BBQ chicken Pizza
      • Pasta
        • Easy teriyaki noodles
        • Fettuccine Alfredo
        • Lasagna
        • Old fashioned chicken and noodles
        • Pancit
        • Pasta Primavera
        • Pasta Spinach Bake
        • Pizza and Pasta
        • Three Cheese Spinach Manicotti
        • Marinara sauce
        • Lynz spaghetti
      • Sandwiches
        • Chicken, pepper and mushrooms subs
        • Easy bbq chicken sandwiches
        • Foof’s deli wraps
        • Little Abude’s sandwich sensation
        • Meatballs subs
        • Panini make over
        • Quick and easy pizza subs
        • See See’s tasty turkey burgers
        • Sloppy Joes Arab style?
    • Vegetables dishes and salads
      • Feta and olive salad
      • Rosemary Garlic Cauliflower
      • Special Cabbage Salad
      • Stir fry
      • Tortellini Salad
      • Yumm Zucchini
      • Zucchini pie
      • Eggplant Parmesan
  • Flashback love- true life story
    • 1-Life before Saudi
      • I do
      • The real boss
      • A ban
      • Damascus 1988
      • True love
    • 1- Move to Riyadh 1993
      • 1-Nothing on top of nothing
      • 2-Morning villa
      • 3-A wooden spoon
      • 4-A Crosswalk
      • 5-Amu hit me with a stick?
      • 6- Tightrope
      • 7- Drops of blood
      • 8-Al-Khobar or bust
      • 9-Halala for your thoughts…
      • 9B- Fine print
      • Welcome home
      • Windows
    • 3-The apartment
      • 1-Too Polite
      • 2-The box
      • 3-A Message
      • 4- The outside world
      • 5-The first day of school
      • 6-The first secret
      • 7- A foreign lady
      • 8-Red haze
      • 9-Locked in
      • Anything
    • Part 3-Compound life
      • 1-The first compound
      • 2-“Normal”
      • 3- The new school
      • 4- Um Osama-Mother of Osama
      • 5- The Hardest Life
      • 6-Monogrammed
      • 7-The visit
      • 8-What is love
      • 9-Only a test…..
      • 9A-Eat eat eat
      • 9B-Reminiscent
      • 9C Acquiesce
      • 9D-No Mahram….
    • Part 4–Riyadh 1996
      • 1-In-laws
      • 2-A temporary position
      • 3-The bike
      • 4- A new school
      • 5-Borrowed
      • 6-A glimpse of reality
      • 7- Happiness….
      • 8-Inivisible
      • 9-A toy
      • 9B-Reality
    • Part 5- 1997
      • 1-Unfounded
      • 2-Clash
      • 3- Dear Doctor…..
      • 4-Nervous
      • 5- The Reminder
      • 6-Useful
      • 7-Don’t listen to mama
      • 8-Revival
      • Interrupted
      • Intervention
      • No name
      • The scooter
      • Fire drill
      • Two plastic sacks
    • Life after the compound 2002
      • A gift
      • And so I smile
      • Click
      • Cold hard floor
      • Eat what I eat
      • Full circle
      • Liar liar
      • No match
      • Overshadow
      • The proposal
      • Naivete
      • Don’t make mama cry
      • The notebook
      • A trip to the mall
      • Escalation
      • No where to hide
      • Leaving Saudi
    • Timeline for life in Saudi
  • Middle Eastern Recipes
    • Appetizers
      • Hummus
      • Hummus(garbanzo beans)with spices
      • My easy mutabal
      • Sambusa-cheese pillows
    • Arabic breads
      • Greek Bread
      • Roti
      • Arabic bread- Pita bread
      • Fatyer-Cheese Bread
    • Breakfast
      • My Fool
      • Parsley Garlic Arabic Eggs
      • Shukshuka
      • Foul- (pronounced Fool)
    • Desserts
      • Basbousa
      • Graybeh
      • Mamul
      • Sweet cheese buns
      • Roz bi Halib Middle Eastern (Rice Pudding)
    • Main Dish
      • Fussulia
      • Kufta (kind of like meatloaf)
      • Kufta Shwarma Sandwich
      • Msa’a- Eggplant casserole
      • Shawarma
      • Shish Tawouk
      • Syrian Oozie
      • Traditional Falafal
      • Yellow chicken curry
      • Quick Lebanese Garlic Lemon Chicken
      • CousCous
    • Middle Eastern Rice
      • Cambodian Corn Beef Rice
      • Kabsa (Saudi Rice)
      • Maclube- upside down
      • Rice Sharia- rice with fried noodles
      • Roz bi Hummus-Rice and hummus
      • Roz Bizilla- Rice with peas
      • Turmeric Garlic Rice
      • White Rice (Basmati)
    • Salads
      • Fattoush
      • Middle Eastern Green Salad
      • Tabouli
      • Tomato Cucumber Middle Eastern Salad
      • Yogurt Middle Eastern Salad
    • Soup
      • Pakistani oat soup
      • Lentil soup (Adas)
      • Algerian vegetable soup
      • Libyan shorba- Soup
    • Vegetable dishes
      • French-Algerian Green Beans
      • Middle Eastern Tomato and Green Beans
      • Zahra bi leban-Cauliflower and yogurt
  • Northwest photos
    • Fall
      • A walk in the park
      • Fall
      • Fall is dwindling…
      • My Favorite Season
      • Waiting for Fall
      • Welcome Fall
    • Idaho
      • A story to tell
      • A Sunday drive
      • And here we have Idaho…
      • Boise break
      • Breathe
      • Contrast in nature
      • Happy Thursday
      • Idaho beauty
      • Lake house visitor
      • Northwest colors
      • The back roads
      • The Bridge
      • The lake
      • The Lewiston valley
      • This is Idaho
      • White bird pass
      • Winding my way back home
    • Palouse
      • A hazy day in color
      • An evening drive at the golden hour
      • Barns for Sadie
      • Busy week
      • Country life
      • Home
      • Humanity
      • More barns of the Palouse
      • My favorite barn
      • Northwest beauty
      • Old Palouse
      • Palouse colors
      • Peaceful
      • Purple
      • Rainy day Palouse
      • Reflect
      • Relaxing Palouse day
      • Rolling Palouse
      • Small town life
      • Snow time Palouse
      • Spring on the Palouse
      • Summer fades
      • Weather on the Palouse
      • Winding my way back home
    • Spring and Summer
      • End of summer
      • It feels like Spring
      • Nature
      • Reflect
      • Sea of Yellow
      • Spring at my house and thanks!
      • Summer on the Palouse
      • The Columbia River
    • Winter
      • Blue skies
      • First frost
      • Frost
      • The deep freeze
      • Winter dresses
  • Pictures- Middle East
    • Riyadh -1
      • A view of Saudi
      • Around Riyadh
      • Contrast
      • Different pictures in Saudi
      • Groceries, camels and more
      • Hotel, park and business- Riyadh
      • Housing in Riyadh
      • Inside Mecca- The sacred journey
      • Interesting Riyadh
      • Mamlaka Mall-Riyadh
      • More Riyadh
      • Riyadh!
      • Riyadh- Butha shopping
      • Saudi
      • School, rugs and more-Riyadh
      • Sports in Saudi
      • The Camel souk
      • The Mall
      • This and that in Riyadh
      • Trip to Al-Khobar 2012
    • Riyadh-2
      • Arabic coffee-Ghawa
      • Average places around Riyadh
      • Back to Saudi 2013
      • Camel souk, coffee and outside market
      • Compound festivals
      • Contrast in Riyadh
      • Fun stuff around Saudi
      • Grama and Grampa in Saudi
      • Having tea outside the mall
      • Images of Saudi
      • Life in Saudi
      • Pictures of things in Riyadh
      • Riyadh
      • Riyadh outdoor souk
      • Riyadh- Camels, malls and desert
      • Some Saudi houses
      • The Camel Souk- Camel Market
      • The visit 2013
      • Things in Saudi!
      • This and that in Riyadh
      • Views of Al-Khobar
      • Visit 2012 Fattima and Abdullah
    • Saudi souvenirs
      • Saudi Souvenirs
      • Souvenirs
      • Stuff from the market-souk
      • Things in Saudi
    • Syria pictures
      • Last time to see in-laws 2008- Damascus
      • Syria
      • Syria
      • Syria
      • Syria 2008
      • Visit to Damascus 2001
  • Poetry
    • Healing
      • A thousand coins
      • Broken pieces
      • Broken road to home
      • Brothers
      • By design
      • Evaporated maze
      • Felicity
      • Flashback love
      • Forgotten
      • From mountain tops
      • Grace and Glory
      • His reflection
      • Ice and dust no more
      • Image under glass
      • Imperfect me
      • Little ones
      • Playing life
      • Proclaim your joy
      • Red bench
      • Silhouette
      • Soliloquy
      • The dear ones….
      • The simple life
      • To Dream
      • Weed on the side of the road
      • White picket fence
      • Wonder
    • Holidays
      • Christmas spirit
      • First Christmas tree
    • My inspiration
      • A walk with me
      • Alayna
      • Back to me
      • Faith
      • Garden
      • Giants
      • Glory
      • Golden
      • Here and now
      • Home
      • Honor man
      • I am who I am
      • I do
      • Love
      • Never alone
      • Ode to Aiden and Bennett
      • Renew
      • Serenity
      • Still standing
      • The author
      • The promise
      • The world is calling me
      • To love
      • With this ring
      • Wrapped up
    • Nature
      • Abiding
      • Autumn Gold
      • Footsteps
      • In repose
      • Purple
      • Revelry
      • Softly calls her name
      • The color inside…
      • The heart of summer
      • The simple things
      • The song of Spring
      • Vivid
    • No more
    • Majesty
  • Summer love series
    • Summer love-1
    • Summer love-2
    • Summer love-3
  • My story- Life in America
    • Balance due
    • Grama’s clothes
    • Healing gift
    • Walk the loop
    • The decision
    • Broken
    • The brave
    • A new wife
    • The visit
      • 1-The shower
      • 2-Stand tall
      • 3-Refuge
      • 4-My house
      • 5-Paper bags
      • 6-Footsteps
      • 7-Reality
      • 8-Too late
      • 9-Last chance
      • Heed the call
      • How this blog saved my life
    • Afraid of flowers
    • Worthy
    • Update on the book
    • Upended

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