Comments on: Guest Post: The Spice Spoon

By: Efy

Efy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:26:03 +0000

Dear Shayma I’ve just found time to read it and must say it’s one of the most beautiful touching short stories I’ve ever read. You do write beautifully and can’t wait to read more written by you. Your mum must be so proud …Love you always. Efy

By: parisa mahmoudi

parisa mahmoudi — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:20:49 +0000

Sooooooo Great and effective, I really enjoyed of your words!

If I wrote so shortly, it means 2 things: 1.My english is not well 2.I can’t explain my feeling well by words in writing or speaking

Dear Shayma Please please continue writing ,I could see the day that your books are in the stores and many people would enjoy of your simple ,clever and lovely stories.
Best Regards
Parisa

By: Aysegul

Aysegul — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:47:35 +0000

Shayma – this is beautifully written, you touch so many aspects of her life and each bit is statisfying but leaves us hanging. After giving birth to my daughter, I truelly understand the meaning of mother. My ‘Anne’ mom is an unbelievable woman and just like you I sometimes wonder where she is. Even though she is with me, sometimes she gets lost in her own world. Being a mom means a lot things, its just a matter of appreciation and understaning that appreciation.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

By: shayma

shayma — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:59:19 +0000

@Pochyemu Wishing your mum a very happy birthday.

@So Lovely I hope your mum always remains youthful, and with loving girls like you and your sisters, she will always be taken care of. I hope my mum always remains healthy and independent mashallah, too.

@Azita Thank you, Azita. I am so happy to see you read my post and also, visited MTFF’s blog. There will always be beautiful stories written by her, to read here.

@deililly Yes, that is exactly how I feel. But then when she gets irritated with something I do, I think, ah, there she is!

@Arlene Thank you so much for your loving and kind words. You have a beautiful relationship with your son, sometimes grandchildren help grandparents find their way back to their children (I have watched Chocolat way too many times, perhaps). I hope you find solace in that bond with your son that you have lost with your mother.

By: Azita

Azita — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:17:56 +0000

Shayma, what a beautiful post about your relationship with your dear mom. You have touched my heart with your words. I could have written this post about me ten years ago!

By: Arlene Wszalek

Arlene Wszalek — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:26:01 +0000

Sorry I’m so late coming to this post.!Your piece affected me in many different ways: admiration for your graceful facility with the written word; appreciation for the love you and your family share; and, I must confess, a bit of envy for your relationship with your mother. My mother’s still alive, but I lost her – or we lost each other – many years ago. Like MTFF, I’m hoping that my son and I can maintain a stronger and more loving bond than the one I share with my mom, and that it will endure for years to come.

By: deililly

deililly — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:54:34 +0000

This post really hit me. Right in the heart. I look at Maw and see the little changes that lie over the mother I see in my head. So confusing now the two visions are not the same.

By: shayma

shayma — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:40:32 +0000

@Ayesha Your mother was a strong, generous, graceful, loving, beautiful, lady; a woman who will be remembered forever. Her presence is still felt when I go to your family home. You not only look like her, but are like her, and she will always live through you. Much love to you.

@Amina We are all so proud of your Amma, what a resilient and beautiful lady she is. And what amazing children you have been to her, always standing by her side. Being with your Amma when she “came back to her usual self”, is, as my friend Nairy so aptly said, like a homecoming.

By: Amina

Amina — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:02:34 +0000

A beautifully written post! I have happy tears trickling down my cheeks; tears for the hug i soo desperately want from Amma right now and a smile for knowing how brave she is and how proud I am to be her daughter.
Growing up with Amma, who suffers from bipolar disorder, meant for us as a family, loosing her time and time again. When she was very ill,often months would go by with her bearing no resemblance to my Amma, and although we were home, we felt so far from it. What made it easier was knowing that everytime she came back to us and to herself, it was with a renewed vigor to stay for a long long time…
Will read your post to her when I see her.I am sure she’ll love it!!!

By: shayma

shayma — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:08:06 +0000

@LP @Eman Thank you for your kind words.

@Miz Our mothers always will be Superwomen for us. Sometimes I am busy and dont answer my mother’s call- and then I think- she answers my calls at all hours- how rude I am…I feel like our mothers are better than us.

@Fati You’re going to be a mother soon, inshallah and I know you will love be the best mother in the world, having learnt so many wonderful things from yours.

@Zurin Thanks, dear.

@Maheen Yes, they dont, and I wonder how girls feel whose mums still dress up like they’re 20 or 30! Thank you for your lovely words, Maheen.

@Ambreen You are lucky you live so close to your mother. Give her my love. And thanks for your sweet words.

@Mehreen Thank you so much. I guess all mothers from that generation wore similar perfumes- First, Joy, Caleche, No 5. Brings back such memories when I smell it.

@MTFF Thank you for this honour- for this opportunity to express something I have never expressed before- not even to my own mother. My sister read the story out to her which made her very happy. Two and Five have a loving, caring mother who has centred her life around them, the age spots, the wrinkles, none of those things will matter. Hope you are now with them, back home from your lovely trip to London.