The best moment of our Holiday.

We just celebrated our Muslim Holiday called" EID -al- Adha". It marks the Celebration of pilgrimage to The Moslem Holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, were millions of people from all countries, cultures,color gather to surrender their desires and ask for forgivness to the Almight God. One of the main themes of this Holiday is - to sacrifice something for the will of God, to give away something that you love, for the happiness of others.

On this day the children recieve some money as a gift from their parents and other Family members. The adults also exchange some money as gifts, which is called "eidy". This time, we decided that the family as a whole will go to a Walmart store and each one of us will spent about thirty percent of our "eidy " to buy something that we really like. Save about forty percent of the total and contribute the remaining thirty percent of the money for buying holiday presents for the children living in the "Children's House" - a group home for the children with special needs. So my nine year old did the math to see how much each has to give and checked on the website- the wish list for the group home kids. My 4 year old put the presents in the Gift bags and all of us headed to the group home. The kids handed the beautifully packed presents to the Office staff. All of us felt the emmence pleasure of" Giving to others a little of ours".

At Bedtime when I asked my nine year old daughter as to what was the best moment of the day . She replied " The best moment of my day was to deliver the gifts to the Children's House".

Najmun

Cinnaminson,New Jersey.

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Thank you for sharing your story. This is a wonderful way to teach giving.

Happy EID-al-Adha to you and your family.

My parents- in -law are practicing Catholic and live in a town with many people from the Muslim faith. During this celebration, their home is always full of children and men in the afternoon and adult females in the evening for food and gifts. My father- in- law goes to bank for exchange of small currency denominate so as to give to many people as possible, especially children. They visited too during the Christmas to celebrate with my parents - in- law.

You must very proud of the kindness and thoughtfulness of your young children. Thanks for sharing and Happy Holidays.

We celebrate Christmas with my husbands parents and our children. Our oldest son brought his girl friend to meet his Grandparents for the first time. She is a little shy around new people but got along fine with everyone and we had a great time!

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