Brother is here!

Just a quick note while the baby is asleep.

Brother and his family are here. I have been wearing hijab the whole and no one has said a thing about it, mashAllah everything is cool. Even little Skylar hasn't asked what's that all about. That is a surprise, and I doubt anyone discussed it and tried to explain it to them or to her before they came. I have been sending pictures of myself in hijab and posting them on my websites for the past year so everyone gets used to it. Maybe that worked.

My brother and his wife were one day from finalizing their divorce a few weeks ago, when they decided, literally in the eleventh hour, to try to work it out. Which I think is a good decision, they have a daughter to think about (my brother adopted her, but she knows him only as DADDY)...BUT, I see the same strains on his face. After the seperation, he was finally geting bck to his old self (I won't go into the details of their problems) and moving on with his life. I hope the old problems don't come back, but I really don't see much difference. I don't know how their home life has been these past few weeks, I know some changes have been made, and they need more time to get to where they want to be. But I see a long road ahead, and I hope it is worth it.

I am enjoying having my brother around, but I hope that next time...he can come alone. (Notice i said BROTHER only.) But that ain't gonna happen, I'm sure. Right now they went out without me to go shopping. Apparently, she did not want to have to worry about the baby needing to come home too soon and not being able to stay out as long as she wanted. I had not noticed that he was holding her back, and we live right int he middle of the shopping district, even if we did have to come home, it's not like we would have far to go. So I gave them directions and sent them out to an area where she had seen a few places she wanted to go to. Baby is still sleeping, so I guess it's not a big deal. I have no plans to buy anything, I am not a big shopper. But we had planned on going to the zoo, I think maybe she didn't want to waste a whole day at the zoo (which had been my brother's plan all along.) Well, it closes at 7:00, we'll see if we still have time. They just ran off and she didn't even say bye or nothing.

They are my guests so i am keeping my mouth shut. I would have liked to get out of the house, but this is their very short trip to a big city (which by the way, I don't think she has adjusted to very well, she says "country" things a bit too loud), let them do what they want. but my husband is going to be PISSED when he finds out they left me at home to go shopping. He really likes my brother, and has never really liked her.