It has been for a while I was not active in my Blog. But today, I came back to ask YOU some help for my FB friend Iroda's nephew Nurullo who was diagnosed with Severe Aplastic Anaemia- a rare type of blood disorder where a child needs urgent Bone Marrow Transplant. Every time when I read my FB friend's updated statuses about her nephew Nurullo, one thing comes to my head "How can I help him?" So, with a huge hope in people around the World today, I decided to share my friend's story with you. I should say, that I don't know Iroda in personal. We've never met. But she is far away from her home town, from her relatives as me. I know, how it feels when you hear that someone in your family back home is sick and you are not able to be there with them and support them morally. At the end of the day I am mother of 2 kids myself and I can't even imagine how bad feels Nurullo's mother. May God bless all children in health and in need!

 

Here is her story "Frozen". I've just copied it here.

Story

There is nothing more devastating to a mother than to see your child suffer from a serious disease. For every mother who has heard these words “Your child has serious illness”, it is a moment frozen in time and life-changing event. I experienced one such frozen moment on 10/01/2014.

I made my routine phone call home in the morning. My brother picked up the phone. He clearly seemed to have something urgent- something very important to say. After a few minutes of muttering, after I had promised that I would not tell mum and dad, he told me the news. The news that made me freeze. My sister’s one and only son was diagnosed with Severe Aplastic Anaemia- a rare type of blood disorder where a child needs urgent Bone Marrow Transplant.

I stood speechless as my eyes welled up in tears. In an instant, the flashbacks of all my nephew's childhood memories came to me. My nephew was so chubby as a baby and we all loved him dearly. My sister lived two doors away from my parents’ so my nephew grew up in our house mostly.  

My sister and her husband moved to Russia in 2011 due to high rise of unemployment in Uzbekistan. As an Uzbekistani my nephew does not qualify for free health care as he is not a Russian citizen. He can not travel back to Uzbekistan as the medicine is not advanced to treat his illness. Please spare a moment to pray for his health and donate to save a life of this 12 year old boy. Any amount is greatly appreciated and valued.

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Pencil and Eraser

PENCIL
I’m sorry

ERASER
For what? You didn’t do anything wrong.

PENCIL
I’m sorry because you get hurt because of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you’re always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.

ERASER
That’s true. But I don’t really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I’ll be gone and you’ll replace me with a new one, I’m actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad.

I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They’re always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way, they get hurt, and become smaller / older, and eventually pass on. Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

All my life, I’ve been the pencil. And it pains me to see the eraser that is my parents getting smaller and smaller each day. For I know that one day, all that I will be left with would be eraser shavings and memories of what I used to have.

Once a person asked the Prophet:

“Who deserves the best care from Me?”

The Prophet replied:

“Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, and then your Father..”

(Al-Bukhari and Muslim) 

My note:  It was hard to me read this story Today. Last year on this Day my father passed. One of my "Erasers" gone. But still, I should be more stronger as though, I am an "Eraser" myself and the "Pencil" at the same time. Alhamdulillah I have my Mom. I wish she could stay more, and for that we are (her children ) should try to note make her "Erase" after us too much....

Spring carrot cake

Ingridients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups canola oil
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups shredded carrots (2 to 3 carrots)
• 1 (8-oz.) can crushed pineapple, well-drained (1/2 cup) (i used canned fruit mix)
• 1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans 
• 1/3 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 F (177 C).

Mix oil and sugar

add egs..

in another bowl mix flour, cinnamon, baking soda and baking powder...

Scatter the dry ingredients over the wet and mix

 

add carrot, sweetened flaked coconut, walnut, chocolate chips and canned fruit..

mix gently and pour into prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes...

or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in the center of the cake  will come out clean

Ready! Enjoy

Note: You can put on the cake melted chocolate or icing.

Lyula kebab

Kebab (Russian translation - Shashlik) cooks different by different cooks. As though, this is not professionally cooked Kebab by my husband but it tastes very good! We loved this recipe and enjoyed it with our family.

Ingridients:

• 3,3 pounds (1,5 kg) ground beef (80% -20 %)
• 2 large onion (finely chopped)
• 2-3 t.spoon salt
• 1 and 1/2 ground black pepper 
• 1 t.spoon coriander seed (ground)
• 2 cloves of garlic (finely chopped) 
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup of breadcrumbs

mix well ground beef and chopped onion

stir in spices,

and add breadcrumbs

mix well

add egg..

and final mix.

in the next step, take about 1 cup of mix and then repeatedly (15-20 times) slam it into a bowl

 

freez it for 1 hour

after an hour kebab by pressing the minced meat around a flat skewer for kebab, 

for about 4-5 inches in length... 

 

Put kebabs on baking sheet and, if you
have time, chill 30 minutes to let firm up meat.

Roast lyulakebab on red charcoal in a brazier repeatedly turning them about 5 to 8 minuts.

Serve hot. Enjoy!

Crocheted shawl

I made this shawl for my mother in law. She likes it very much and wears with pleasure.If you want repeat it, you can find the scheme below.

For this shawl we need:

• 3 balls() + 1 ball for fringes of Simply Soft yarn
• crochet hook G/ US size 
• scissors

Crochet with the scheme showed below

Rose balls

To make Rose balls we need:

• Styrofoam balls
• Crape paper
• glue (I used hot glue sticks and a glue gun)
• scissors

cut 30-40 centimeters strips, crumple them up

make a flower twisting and turning the strips, as shown in the pictures below

when paper roses are ready, glue them on the foam balls

I glued a bow and hanged. Kids loved it!

If you do not have foam balls, you can use yarn balls instead! 

Layered beetroot salad

Ingridients:

•  2 potatoes (boiled)
•  2 carrots (boiled)
•  4 eggs (boiled)
•  2-3 pickles
•  1 big apple 
•  2 small beetroots(boiled or steamed)
•  mayonnaise (or sour-cream+salt & lemon juice)
•  pomegranates and greens (optional)

Layer as shown and decorate as you like

1- grated potatoes

Mayonnaise

2- grated carrots

3 - chopped pickles

4- grated eggs

5 - grated apple

last layer is grated beetroot

and decorate with pomegranate and greens