Thanksgiving

After Ashura, life started to get back to normal again! We got back to homeschooling and Faith going to preschool. It was nice to get back into our routine. Thanksgiving crept up on us and every year we get to celebrate Faith's adoption! We call it Faith Day! It's appropriate that we get to celebrate her so close to Thanksgiving! We're so thankful for her and how she completed our family!

This year Tim's Institute was closed for Thanksgiving. We woke up feeling very thankful for some extra time as a family!

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Ashura

We knew that it would be an important time for our friends when we got back and we were ready!

The day after we got home the first 10 days of mourning started. Our friends call these first 10 days "Ashura." (which means 10 in Arabic.) They mourn the martyrdom of their prophet Mohammed's grandson, Hussein, in the battle of Karbala. You can read more about it here.

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The Rest of October

In between and after Tim's sisters visited we had other fun things we did. We got to be with some other friends and some down time at Tim's parents' house.

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