We Will Be Celebrating....

In just a few days, we will be celebrating our 3rd anniversary of solemnization ceremony. In Wikipedia, on 'wedding anniversary', there is a list of flowers for each year of the anniversary. I'm not sure what is the basis or reference, but interestingly the flower for 3rd anniversary is sunflower :) See list below. For full list, refer to Wikipedia.

Year Flower
1st Carnation
2nd Lily of the valley
3rd Sunflower
4th Hydrangea
5th Daisy

Anyway, hubby will not be around to celebrate our anniversary together this year. He'll be going for umrah with Melaka family. The trip was planned for December last year but postponed because Saudi government did not issue umrah Visa on December. Then the plan was to postpone to December this year but the rescheduled flight ticket must be utilized by a certain date or it will be forfeited... so can't wait till December. Otherwise, I'd love to join them. I'll be missing hubby so much and hope everything went well. We will celebrate our anniversary once hubby return from his Umrah trip. He'll be busy after leaving work for 2 weeks and I'll have my final exam the coming weekend after he's back but I'll plan for a short getaway trip anyway.

This is the picture of our 2nd anniversary.
I really miss being in Madinah and Mekkah but the timing wasn't right. And one thing special about Umrah or Hajj, if it is not destined for you to go, even if you have all the money in the world, all the time in the world, you will not reach there. There are many rich Muslims who have not received 'the call' to visit these sacred places. There are many who is financially tight but has received unexpected rezeki to go there. Come to think of it, it is the same with life. If you think you're prepared to get married, prepared for family life, prepared for better position, you may not get what you want because He has other plans for you. I pray I'll be able to go for Hajj and Umrah again in future. Below are pictures of us during our Umrah trip in 2009.

Near Masjid Nabawi in Madinah
At Jabal Rahmah... said to be the place where Adam and Hawa met on earth.
In Masjidil Haram.