Presenting a List-y-Love Letter of what I gravitate to…
- Nutella isn’t safe around me
- I am not a morning person and never will be. I love naps and full nights of uninterrupted sleep.
- Yes to money plants that swish down
- I will get the dinner-scaries every night and dread thinking about What’s for dinner? I will also not meal plan or learn how to.
- I can’t seem to finish reading craft books on writing.
- Yes to the ocean. I adore Karachi Sands Pit Beach and surf foam camel rides.
- No to the gym – I will not join.
- Yes to dolls. As a little girl with 3 brothers, I didn’t play with dolls much and got tired of seeing headless barbies. Now as a mother of daughters, if my daughter asks for a doll I will typically say yes, and cradle her doll with respect. There’s only so much time left for them to love dolls.
- I am also a maximalist for wall art and painted walls that drink in sunlight.
- Abu Dhabi French Fries, nights where the cities come alive – I learned to ride a bicycle at night in the Abu Dhabi summers because it was too hot in the daytime.
- Window Sills
- Electronically, I will be organized, but in real life I struggle.
- Crows
- I have lofty library goals and will borrow piles of books from the library and return bunches of them unread
- Pink-Blue-Skies
- Yes to fishing in your car for a quarter for a gum ball even though the flavor fades in seconds
- Blowing Dandelions
- Too-neat-homes make me on edge.
- Toddler Walks. Bonus points for pretty skies.
- No to Banned Books! (my book Lailah’s Lunchbox is here!)
- Yes to books by diverse KidLit authors!
- Daughters and Shadows
- Yes to encouraging kids to paint the city
- I will be able to write picture books, middle grade lyrical books, and essays but struggle with directions when I have to go somewhere
- On that note, NO to Traffic and Rush Hour!
- and YES to GOLDEN HOUR, the magical hour before sunset where everything turns to buttery gold.
This post is part of a blog hop with the Creative Speed Dating Cohort led by Laura Rennie and Laura Bass, with participation from the Exhale community, an online community of women pursuing creativity alongside motherhood, led by the writing team behind Coffee + Crumbs. Fun prompts like these are just a taste of the creative samplings offered in the cohort. Click here to view the next post in the series “Things I Know About Myself.”
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