Letter to Erin 20150506

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hi Erin!  My beautiful sweetheart!  How are you feeling today, you most gorgeous girl?  Mwah!  I woke up so early today.  4:30 am.  I often wake up super early to do extra worship, but today I didn't get a chance to go back to sleep.  My Mom went back to hospital for her surgery, and the chain reaction of that kept me busy.  I tried to nap on a chair during the short breaks, but that's never as good as a full 8 or 9 hours.  I read somewhere that productive adults need only 4 to 6 hours sleep.  I bet they're not models though.  So you make sure you get plenty of rest, my Rock and Roll Princess.

Now you are probably thinking about saving the brick structure of my grandfather's old house, and designing your house around that inshaAllah.  What I had planned is to burn or trash anything that's not stone or brick, then demolish the stone and brick to be used to elevate the ground floor, as a precaution against flooding.  There hasn't been any flooding in recent years since the state upgraded the drainage system around here.  But it would be easy for Allah to overcome that.  All too easy.  So I suggest you design from scratch and not try to adapt to salvaging the old house.

I'm going to try to relax now.  What's the rush anyway.  I want you to know that I love you, and I need you.