What to do when you're lonely

My sister has a baby, her name is Sara. Sara is the only baby in the family, and the center of all love and emotions.

Sara is turning two in May, and since my last visit to London in January, she's been growing smarter, funnier, cuter and more energetic than ever before.

Apparently as she goes to the nursery and has too much energy to spare around, she's feeling lonely during the extra hours of the day and her mother (aka my sister) was advised to get her a companion to reduce the boredom factor.

Sara and Marwan, Jan 2011, UK

"Should we make a baby for Sara?" a good question to ask, but let's weigh the options here:

-A baby needs at least 9months (if things went fine the first time and no further delays took place;) )
-A baby needs a lot of work; changing nappies, sleeping, feeding, etc..
-A baby consumes a lot of body energy at delivery and might require days of recovery afterwards.
-A baby is not to be replaced once bought, it's a life-long product
while... if we get let's say a pet say a fish, we have the following options:

-Delivery almost on the spot, no need for a 9 month wait. [You buy the aquarium and wait a week for the water to adjust to the house environment then get the bought fish to the house]
-No name required, or extra daily care just simple feeding-You can get your baby accommodated to the newly introduced partner in the family, by having her contribute to setting up the aquarium (putting the bottom rocks, the planetary objects then filling in the water and closing the aquarium cover).

Now after comparing the two options, my sister apparently was wise enough and decided on the second one. She had Sara go pick her own fish from the shop, then had her chanting fish fish all the way in the car from the shop to the house. Sara helped her father set up the aquarium and ended this cool experience of no boredom or loneliness by climbing on top of this new house of joy i.e. aquarium!

it's not broken yet, and the fish is not there yet. We'll wait and see what happens when the fish arrives :)

A fish I found a couple of days ago restless in the park! -Amman

On another completely different subject..

My baby brother aka Marwan has a good history with Calculus back at his days at PSUT, he failed Calculus 1 then got stuck with 2 several times, when he hears the word as a word 'Calculus' he gets so irritated and doesn't just hate integration but doesn't get the point of it.

Now as he's doing another major at Surrey University, he's taking Calculus again, and this time he got a few marks below full at his previous exam, he came out the other day and skyped with me saying: Lubna, I am soo good at integration now that I looked at my broken nose and integrated it to find the percentage increase of it's size in comparison to my whole face.

I love my family!