I had a think about this prompt and I realised that despite my best efforts to be in the moment and be more mindful, I am usually moving too fast and trying too much to think ahead to do much watching.  I can’t watch TV, because we don’t have one. So what do I watch […]

A sister recently left a comment in a blog post asking for career advice on whether she should take up a position that she felt that she might not be up to.  From her writing on her blog, I can tell she is intelligent and insightful, I have no doubt that she could do what […]

I remember during my first pregnancy that despite the glowing skin and thicker hair, I couldn’t wait to have the baby and then get back to my size eight dress size again. A few days after I had had my daughter, a friend who had a little boy commented on how funny one your body […]

I got the loveliest invitation this week.  A friend that returned from umrah (pilgrimage) invited me to her home for dates and zamzam water.  She followed this with – and of course lunch, like it was no big deal.  Usually we make a fuss of going to visit people who return from hajj or umrah […]

What do you do when the kitchen tap falls apart and hubby isn’t hope to sort it out? You call the plumber…except it gets to 10.30 and the plumber still hasn’t turned up and there are piles of dishes and the kitchen needs a good clean – with water Women being resourceful creatures, we have […]

Okay, so what does this spell? 😉 I asked my mother-in-law if she wanted to take an Eid decoration back to Pakistan with her and she asked for one that said “Eid Mubarak”. I was a bit stumped for colours so asked my sister-in-law to be who has quite an eye for colour, style and […]

Something that sometimes stresses me out a little is the long to-do lists I manage to rack up for myself. What doesn’t help is when these things go round and round in my head getting me into a flap. What also doesn’t help is writing them down in my diary and then ignoring them.Every now […]

I rarely get stressed, especially never about work. What happen happens right? I love everything to be orderly and in its place. I can think straight when my desk is straight and my craft materials are in order. I know what to cook and what chores need doing when the house is in order.Funny how […]

I love how tactile and physical my children are in expressing their emotion (except when they hug my hard enough to almost knock me over – Little Lady!). The youngest, Gorgeous is a very physical child and loves to put his arms around whoever is nearest to him, in the rare moments when he is […]

Coming from a very conservative, proper and conventional family, one thing I like about my in-laws is that they are very spontaneous. This used to wind me up royally, but now it seems like a fun way to be…sometimes.My husband picked me up from work yesterday, and causally dropped into conversation that we were invited […]

My neighbour commented a few weeks ago that we had not had an Eid party this year and they were usually so much fun.  We’ll it doesn’t take much to convince me.  I messaged my family and neighbours, they happened to have the following weekend free and I invited them to a Ladies Lunch and Princess […]

I first posted my simple list of Eid gift ideas in 2008, a few years later finding that Eid gifts was a popular keyword search around Ramadan, I updated it in 2013 and have been adding to it ever since as I come across brands and product I would be happy to give or receive. I had hoped to […]

We visited the Once Upon a Time event at valentines Mansion with the Babies and my little cousin yesterday.  The tickets were cheap and it gave the girls a chance to dress up in their costumes, so I thought why not? There were lots of little details and touches from fairy takes and stories like […]

Kooky Little Sister has always been one of my partners in crime when it comes to books (with Long Suffering Sister akey supplier for my habit and Fashionista a no-nonsense critic – we all liked Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fashionista’s verdict was – “I can’t believe I just wasted so many hours […]