Family Moments

How are you all. I hope you all are fine and I am fine too. Now first of all I wish you all a very happy 2025. Allah has blessed us with a new year and given us a new opportunity to fulfill our goals and dreams which we could not do in 2024.
I am thankful to @fannyescobar for giving us the opportunity to share our happy moments with our family through this platform.

First of all let's define the word (family) which is a beautiful word in itself. A beautiful feeling that it's not you, yours or me and mine, it's us and ours. Our joys, our sorrows, our pains are all shared. There are many moments that bring happiness and sadness in our life, if our family is with us in every sorrow, the journey of life becomes very easy. I also live in a joint family and I thank Allah for giving me such loving relationships. If we are in pain, our pain is halved if our family is with us and if we are happy, our happiness is doubled by being together.

Tell us about your experience of spending time with your family these last few days.

Living with family is really a great experience. First of all let me tell you that I live in a joint family. My grandfather built a house for his four sons in such a way that the houses were separate but the yard was one. I got married to my paternal uncle's son so both my Mecca and in-laws are with me and it's a beautiful feeling that I live with my parents and siblings even after marriage. We all share in each other's sorrows and happiness. We all help each other in every work. If someone is sick, he is taken care of. For me, being in a joint family is a great blessing from Allah alone. Humans suffer from depression if he is alone. On the contrary, living in a joint family brings pleasant changes in our mind and life.

1. Did you travel anywhere to meet with your family?
2. What did you enjoy most about that time with your family?
3. Do you have any anecdotes to share with us about your family time?

I would like to answer these three questions together. As I told earlier that I live in a joint family so we don't need to go anywhere. We spend a lot of time together in our home with greatest joy. I would like to share with you some memories of our family function. 29th December brought happiness in our family.

It was my cousin's engagement and we all enjoyed this function together. Instead of making arrangements outside, we had the engagement ceremony at home. The groom's parents and sisters came to our house to perform the engagement ceremony.
Nowadays, all functions of marriage are combined, be it engagement or mehndi, the boy and girl's family have the same function. In a way, it's good that in the current era of inflation, the combine function makes it easier for both families to celebrate their children's happiness in a great way. In our house, the boy does not meet the girl before marriage, that's why there are separate functions in our houses. The boys side celebrate their happiness in their own way and the girl side in their own way. The engagement ceremony was also held separately in our house. First the boys side came to our house and we all enjoyed the engagement function. We all prepared the food together at home. For food we had fish fry which is everyone's favorite food in winter.
We made beef curry, white chicken curry and pea pulao. For Dessert made carrot halwa which was very delicious. Food was eaten by all in a pleasant atmosphere. After the meal my cousin's mother in law gave her a very beautiful ring and sisters gave gifts.

After that beautiful pictures were taken.
Our family doesn't allow us to make our pictures public so I can't share the pictures.
After the guests left, all of us cousins ​​had a great time playing the dholak and singing songs. After that we all enjoyed the tea. It was a very lovely day that we all spent together.

Now let me end my post with a very good saying that
The stronger the relationship, the more resentment there is, but for those who know how to bridge the gap, love is always kind.

I would like to invite @iqrabatool34, @aminasafdar for the contest.