Paradise in Hell

I have beautiful apartment ,very well designed, very well decorated, full of handmade decorations ,I made them by my self . In this summer my husband painted the apartment while we were in Baghdad visiting my parents, we put new curtains ,we modernized the sitting room furniture .Last summer we bought new Turkish furniture to Sunshine's bedroom , my kids have very nice rooms apt to the child's world . We also have large garden( we built our apartment over the house of my parents in law) ,my mother in law take care of it all the time ( she is a expert), you can see many kinds of flowers ,nice trees , even some of them are scarce , like a tree gives very tiny oranges, it put its bounty twice a year ,it's a Japanese tree. Another tree gives very large lemon ,its size equals a melon size, with very nice smell.
But when you open the outside door you see dirty street , with many craters, then when you turn to the main street you will find more & larger craters &holes, at the sides of the streets there are partly destroyed buildings. You can also see policemen in the checkpoint wearing black face cover (very scary & forbidding)…..
Everyone who comes to our apartment feels like he is in a different world ,unlike the outside world, when the American soldiers entered our house for inspection , every one said' WAW' , one of them kept saying very nice . One of them throw him self on our couch , saying that is just like home , & many other flattering sentences .
I can't imagine our life without our paradise , you know we spend most of the time in it , we only leave it to go to our jobs , & the kids go to their schools , I mean we go out very rarely for other reasons……..
Thanks to Allah that gave us our own Paradise ….
Mama…