ur cuter monkey legs.

awww....that nice telluride. PS-u know whats funny. I always thought 'seran wrap' was actually seraM wrap...i always said it with an M. I"m still a FOB.......I LOVE IT.

omg saffu, allah ya7ufdhik, ur such a cutie for starting these posts!

I love everyones lil family and community traditions...for the most part it's universal (the frills, the food, the anasheed).

when we were kids, we used to zayyin the house...like wacky tacky zeena. The mismatched streamers and balloons and bell-shaped thingies...it was such a to-do, but so much fun. Always "eid sa3eed" in christmas lights on the front window.

Mama makes trays and trays of halaweeyaat about the last week of Ramadhan, so the whole house smells torturously delicious for days. Lailut Eid (eve) she makes us go around to the jeeran (even the white breaders) and wazzi3 3alaihom the love. Plastic plates loaded with sweets, covered in colorful saran wrap, and a big fat sticky wardah. so ugly, but it's the inside that counts.

Eid morning is frantic. 8 people, two showers? ya lateef. Once we're all in our eid-best, we go to the salaah. The whole family used to do takbeerit il3eid together during the drive, and it used to be annoying, but now that I take my own car, I MISS IT.

After the salaah, we go to the masjid to have breakfast with the majmoo3a and watch the 'mahrajan' that the sunday school puts on. My mom ALWAYS brings shakshouka bil gideed...so amid the ful and jibna and random totinos pizzas, mama's big ol tanjara is representin'.

Afterwards, we usually go home and crash, then get up and hang out with friends. But we have to come home and have 6abeekhit Eid for dinner. She only makes it twice a year, so it's pretty much fardh.

I still sellim 3ala 3maami and I STILL get 3eediya!!!

Eid is what you make it to be! Go all out...decorate the house, buy gifts for your family members, make some sweets, get loot bags for the kids in the family...make it a real celebration!

Once you have your own child, you can go through the fun process of picking out their Eid clothes, getting them ready and excited about Eid through stories, songs, and games.

Don't let Eid get boring! Make a plan, and follow through with it :)

Eid sucks nowadays. Can you beleive i dont even get new clothes?? thats so sad wallahi allah

Hey mis, that's cute wallahi. I wanna see if you know some misratee people I know.....now let me think....

Ya namla, why would people cry after salat el-eid? I've noticed that actually they start talking and laughing and being very disrespectful to those people who wanna make du3as and things like that. Hun, what masjid do you go to?...

omg i hate it when salat el eid is finished then every body gets up starts to 3ayyed on each other then they start crying...i'm like dont make me cry too lol.

in misratah ... everyone knows everyone, so you 3ayyed 3ala your relatives, their inlaws, their neighbours....we take the whole silat ra7em and saba3 jaar thing, to the next level in misratah. If you tell me the name of a misratee person...im sure i can find a connection.

ummm......we never went knocking at people's houses to wish them a happy eid....We just went to people we knew

Mis...yes I do remember going from house to house to en3aydu 3ala people we hardly new....and drinking so much marada....sometimes forgetting to leave a little bit in the glass (the polite thing to do!) and having to ask one of the people that didn't finish their mashroob to pour some into your glass when the hosts weren't looking!

Do people still do that on Libya? Going knocking on neighbours houses to wish them a happy eid?

saf...remember our libya eids and having the awkward moments of going to 3ayeed on people we didnt even know ? (3eyt habb elree7 especially) And ayam el7esar, the only mashroob that was readily affordable by the majority of libyans, was the kind in the small glass 'recycleable' glass bottles. So inevitably you would get a stomach ache, because you drank sooo much and the bottles were sooo filthy.
But FM, i totally relate with the zammarat and the balloons.
When we first came to Canada, I remember getting loot bags at eid prayers, which was a highlight.

omg...i totally forgot to mention 3aseeda in my post. We do it too, but we do it after salat el-3id. We usually have two bowls, one for baba, and the rest for us, because baba likes to eat 3aseeda with a fork and the honey drips every where and gets stuck to his mustache 'n everything, so the family likes to give him his own space loool.

3ASEEEEEEEEEEDA! yes. that is absolutley most definitely what makes eid stand out in my household. EVERY year. we are all awoken by the smell of mama 3assiding in the kitchen. we all assemble - usually around 2 plates - one with 3asal and butter, and the other with rubb - and chill out over the gas3a. then we all get dressed and head out to prayer. prayer is usually followed by everyone coming back to the house - insane NOISE. everyone drunk off of 3aseeda. brothers being extremely annoying - nieces and nephews going crazy over presents. and a round of the yearly photo's we send to the family back home. leebeeya: i must agree, around 2pm... the chaos ends and everyone's back to their routine. SAFFU: i TOTALLY miss those lamat at the islamic school - they were beyond amazing. especially the days when you were little enough to actually go and chill out wiht baba's friends?! *yay* good times. then the young 3izaba men would make you get up and sing for everyone as they darbikt for you... *remember that?* and may Allah forgive our mothers and sisters for all that torture in ruffly tights, underneath the even RUFFLIER ankle socks... and the yucky plastic glossy shoes. scarred for life.

loool@ monkey like hairy legs. Well here's my bit...........Eid in Libya: Same like you guys with the 7alaweeyat and the shopping etc. The next day we would all dress up and go to my dad's family first, aunt by aunt, and then we would end up at my other grandparents' house. We would play with balloons and zamarat and my grandma would get mad because we would give her a headache so from time to time she 'tad3as' 3ala a balloon and popps it with her long nails loool.......................Eid in Canada: We would go to salat al-eid first. When we were younger we would gather with other libyan families and go to Chuck-E-Cheese. And I remember playing 'wabees' at the indoor playground. Now that we're older the most exciting thing we do after salat al-eid we go to a sala where all the libyan families gathered and we just sit and talk and play little games and win prizes while little kids run around and try to jack some more pop withouth the big guys noticing. Also part of my family's traditions, we go to Boston Pizza every eid.

As a child, I remember my mother making 7alaweyaat el-3eed days before Eid...things like betifour, ka3k mala7, ghraiba (mom's specialty), ka3k 7ilu and we helped her with things like putting jam and sprinkles on the betifour, or eating the ka3k that got a little too dark in the koosha. :)

I remember going out days before Eid to look for beautiful matching dresses for both me and my sister. You can't buy a dress without buying tights, and new shoes! My mom would also pick up brand new pijamas, and undergarments for us to wear right after doing 7ammam el-3eed on the eve of Eid.

On Eid day we would wake up to the sound of my dad making takbeerat el-3eed very exciting as a child, kind of annoying during the teenage years of my life :). I don't remember what breakfast was like...probably because in my mind all I could think of was putting on my new Eid clothes and getting ready to go to our Libyan Eid gathering.

Once dressed and at the Eid gathering, I remember going to en3ayyed 3ala my dad's friends, especially the ones I knew would give me a nice 3ideeya! The day would be full of drinking pop, eating lots of sweets, and just running around the big school where we usually held our Eid celebrations.

Ahhhhhhhh those were the days!