Monday, November 21, 2011

Two (of each) For The Road

The yearly Thanksgiving pilgrimage to my family home begins. This year in new and improved comfort of a minivan. But as I was packing, I once again was struck by how even small, little things in my life reflect our half-Pakistani, half-American life:

Behold, entertainment for a five year old boy of half Caucasian American, half Pakistani heritage about to embark on a 16 hour roadtrip:


2 comments:

Adventurous Ammena said...

I often wonder what we will do in this situation.. hubbys urdu reading skills arent great from many years of romanised letters but insha'Allah it will be ok.. my main hurdle is getting him over the fact that he will be speaking urdu to our children no matter what country we are in ;)

lala said...

mashAllah :) I totally want good-looking farsi DVDs for my son! i ordered lion king in farsi, etc. but they were vhs quality. *sigh*