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  • Collage of modern school-morning life featuring a phone with unread notifications beside coffee, school uniforms hanging ready, a backpack and shoes prepared for the next day, an empty school hallway, and packed lunchboxes. The images reflect the quiet emotional rhythm of modern motherhood, school routines, and preparing children for ordinary days again.
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    Ordinary Mondays Feel Like Mercy

    May 10, 2026 / No Comments

    Today I opened WhatsApp to do one thing. I still do not know what that thing was. Somewhere between replying to a cousin, checking a message from another mother, and opening Telegram for a school update, my original reason for picking up the phone disappeared completely. For the past couple of weeks, the sky had been quiet. No interceptions. No sudden sounds overhead. Just stillness—the kind of stillness that slowly tricks you into believing life has returned to its normal rhythm again. Then last Monday, there were a few interceptions again. Suddenly, the Telegram school groups became alive all over again. The groups themselves are actually very organized; alhamdulillah, only…

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About Me

Umm Abdallah

I’m an Indonesian mother of ten, now making a home in the Middle East. Most of my days are spent navigating the beautiful, heavy, and often messy reality of a large family and a body that requires me to move a little slower.

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  • Birth (1)
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  • Doula (2)
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