Motherhood is a privilege, we are honoured and blessed to raise our children.   We are raising up the next generation, creating a legacy and changing the world. Paradise lies beneath a mothers feet. But there are days…like today, when after a full day of: Refereeing Disciplining Cajoling Pulling one apart from another Cooking Feeding […]

Little Lady and Little Man’s current favourite game is continuous complaining. “Muuuuum She’s troubling me”, “MUM!! He’s making trouble to me” When you get to the root of what this “trouble” is it’s usually “he keeps following me”, “she called me dumb”, “she’s not playing with me”, “he keeps waving his hand near my book” […]

This week was the last week for one of my colleagues who has also become my friend. I sit next to H every morning (we both get in super-early), I give her advice and she lets me bask in her coolness and feel cool by association. She welcomed me to the team when I was […]

I caught wind of World Book Night quite late in the day, but I had been inspired by my friend PT from Ireland and the way she always makes time for tea and stories or poetry for her precious little ones.  My older ones are avid readers, particularly Little Lady and Gorgeous (thankfully it keeps […]

I posted recently about some good news to come. I was talking about Fashionista Sisters engagement, which took place two weekends ago and turned out to be a lovely evening. All of us sisters pulled together to organise the decor, venue and food. The engagement took place at home followed by the two families sharing […]

Last weekend was the date of our annual Eid party.  This year I kept it small to make life easier, with family and neighbours invited. I had my decorations from Eid which let me indulge shamelessly in my love for colour and rainbows: I found some rainbow roses and mixed them with these creatively named […]

It feels like time to be frivolous for a short while and celebrate the things I love and enjoy.  I feel as if after a dark and painful summer, I have emerged into the beginnings of a winter that has left me feeling positive and hopeful.  So I intend to be grateful and rejoice in […]

It has been snowing on and off for the last few days here, cold but so pretty. It hasn’t stuck so far, so no snowmen despite the kids crazy excitement (Disney’s Frozen has a lot to answer for, Darling was convinced it would be white and wintry like the cartoon outside). I have been trying […]

I had a good old catch up with my mum today, sitting in her warm kitchen with the smells of lamb kebabs on the grill and chickpea curry warming up as she made chappati’s. We talked about Pakistan, caught up with family news, she had a little vent, I teased her about the things that […]

I was invited to a party by another work colleague who insisted that I had to come. She suggested I bring along my sisters and children which was very generous of her and as it was women’s only I decided to go along.I got home from work a little late (waiting in the car whilst […]

Mash’Allah was browsing through Etsy and came across some serious eye candy by a company called Little Wings Gallery: I love how the creator has really played with fonts, calligraphy and colour. Mash’Allah, I think these would make lovely gifts.  If you are interested the shop is here and their Facebook page which also has […]

I’ve wanted to put henna on Darling before but previous attempts at very simple small motifs have ended up with the henna smeared or wiped off immediately.  My neighbour is a dab hand at henna art and applied this design whilst Darling was still sleepy after a nap.  She held both her hands and distracted her until […]

I’m back, I’m back. I was this close to deleting this blog out of sheer frustration due to the problems I have been having with domain names and publishing this blog. So after a week of trying to get my old domain name back and then getting a new one and then that one insisting […]

We are currently enjoying our Easter holidays.  I have the week off and I am trying to convince hubby to keep some days clear for us (it’s very hard to turn down work when you are self-employed and he is trying his best to book jobs at alternate times).  We were hoping to go away […]