{"id":430,"date":"2009-09-07T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growmama.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2009-09-07T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T06:46:07","slug":"date-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/growmama\/motherhood\/date-baskets\/","title":{"rendered":"Date Baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\n<\/p><p>This project started out with us planning to give Ramadan Introduction gift baskets to our neighbors. But it became a double-project, the Ramadan Intro gift baskets as well as Ramadan Date gift baskets for both sets of grandparents alhamdulillah. \u00a0What better gift to give in Ramadan than dates, in hopes of earning the reward promised by our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh):\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12px;color: #404040;font-weight: bold;line-height: 17px\">\u201cHe who gives food for a fasting person to break his fast, he will receive the same reward as him. And nothing will be subtracted from the fasting person\u2019s reward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\"><strong>Items<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">Medjool Dates<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">Cashews or Walnuts<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">candy foil wrappers (Michaels)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">Tin gift basket<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>short note introducing Ramadan (for the neighbors)<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">\n<p><\/p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">We pitted the dates and stuffed them with cashews and walnuts. \u00a0We then proceeded to wrap them individually and place them in our tin basket. \u00a0We wrote Ramadan Mubarak and attached it to the basket along with some pretty ribbon. \u00a0Alhamdulillah, things worked out nicely. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">I hope this project helps the girls realize the beauty of gifting people we love as well as teaching people about Islam and being good to our neighbors. \u00a0As our Prophet (pbuh) taught us, \u201cGive gifts, you will spread love.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\">\n<p><\/p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: #404040;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\"><em>The Abdul-rahman girls, ages 4 and 2.5 years, enjoy playing with their friends and cousins, listening to stories galore and dressing in twirly dresses.\n<p><\/p><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project started out with us planning to give Ramadan Introduction gift baskets to our neighbors. 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