Assalam-alaikam, I love to write for this blog, but I also love to hear from readers. Do you have an urge to write? Do you have a message or opinion that you really want to share Do you have a blog and would like to share some of your content with my beloved readers. If […]
I have been working hard the last few months to try and improve my diet and lose some weight. Dates have certainly been part of my efforts as snacks and also as a healthy start to the day as part of my breakfast. I find they stop me getting hungry too quickly and snacking on […]
I know that people will say that “every day is a Mother’s Day for Muslims” and I fully agree, but you don’t get flowers and presents every day (or many days at all in my case) so I will take what I can get. Mother’s Day this year was a light hearted and sweet affair. […]
It came around to that time of year again, the annual garden tidy up. Every year around spring as the weather warms up, I venture out to my little garden and survey the state of it: the mess and toys that the kids have left and the random junk my better half has decided to […]
Assalam-alaikam, I realise it’s been a year since I last wrote and in that time I have had moments when I yearned to write and others when I wondered if I ever would again. Then today I realised I have this little pocket of time for myself every day between clearing up after Iftar and […]
My first 40 Day challenge, which seemed too long, now seems if it was over ever so quickly. I thoroughly enjoyed it and surprisingly it taught me lots. I was very happy with some of the pictures and not impressed with others at all – it has encouraged me to be more thoughtful about method […]
I received two interesting comments yesterday that made me think. The first was from one of my husband’s “auntie” – a lady who calls him her son and who he helps out on occasion with chores and DIY. She sees me as her daughter-in-law; because we all need more than one mum-in-law…. She came to […]
Browsing one lunch break from work at my local bookshop, I decided to ask one of the staff there for a recommendation. He pointed out a few books he liked but there was one he positively raved about. He mentioned that The Name of the Wind was the best book he had ever read, he […]
This week I came home from a busy day at work to a litany of requests: my oldest two need new travel cards (one has broken his and the other lost hers a few days after I replaced her broken one), Gorgeous needed ingredients for his food tech class the next day and both of […]
I recently came across something called 100 Days of Productivity Challenge, I really liked the concept. It requires you to do something productive every day and capture it. The challenge is mainly found on students Tumblr accounts. Being a grown adult and usually quite productive, I shouldn’t need a productivity challenge. However, I seem to have […]
I came across the following post on a sisters WhatsApp group and then traced it back to the Muslim Parents in Training Facebook page. For someone like me who spends all day running from one thing to another, with barely any time to myself, this was a welcome and reassuring reminder – quality not quantity, […]
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 […]
As I look back over my day today and reflect, it strikes how busy today was. Even though it was the weekend and I was not working, I spent the day trying to catch up with housework, my to-do list, my sleep and reading the Quran. I managed most of the chores but still didn’t […]
It seems that the word Aunty has become a bit of a bad word in recent times. Being called an Aunty is offensive because it implies you are old and old-fashioned, in a world where being young an attractive is everything. Auntie’s get grouped like a pack of wolves, or hyena’s – upholding toxic traditions […]
