Last weekend I spent a morning with Little Lady shopping and talking. She had insisted that she did not want to come and we should leave her at home. I insisted that she should get out and get some air and spend some time with us. When we got there, we ended up splitting up, […]
I took my youngest, Baby, for a stroll to the shops today. She is quite small with a petite pixie face and I often get comments from people saying she looks like a little doll, obviously they can’t see that she has a temper like a little wasp. It’s always nice when people stop to […]
The better half was away this weekend with the brother-in-law so I decided to have someme-time and do some things I enjoy (i.e. no cooking, no making chappati’s and no housework). So I let the kids stay up, we watched Robin Hood Prince of Theives (the very bad but very enjoyable Kevin Costner version), ate […]
To me henna is celebration itself and Eid feels incomplete without it. Three of the guests at our Eid party could apply henna, so we asked them nicely and they found themselves spending most of the evening decorating the hands of the rest of our guests. I mentioned earlier that my sister had afound a […]
Even as I write the question in the title I have to admit that I am a little biased. I was born and raised in London and I am trying to raise my children here. So what prompted the question? I went to pick up Darling from nursery this morning and said hello to some […]
I’m in the perfect mood to celebrate the Sabbath day alhamdulillah. I’m sitting at my desk giggling and entirely not in the mood for walk. You have days when you are bogged down and days when you just can’t be bothered. You have days when you put your nose to the grindstone, meet the resistance […]
My mom has had a little something on her mind for a long time, so decided to give her friends and neighbours a shout to assist. Because we live amongst a big Muslim community here, whenever there is a problem, the ladies tend to get together. So yesterday she called a group together to pray […]
One of my colleagues at work, a very sweet lady with green fingers, presented me with these courgettes from her allotment. Food you grow yourself and then pick fresh tastes so much more intense and flavoursome, so I decided to make courgette curry. Ingredients: 2 medium onions – diced 2 tablespoons olive oil (or sunflower […]
I have been thinking about crafting and realised I often feel guilty about the time and money spent on my card-making and jewellery making (although most of the materials are recycled or second-hand). I often think that the time and money would be better spent in ibadah (worship) and charity. But then I think our […]
Whilst we were visiting Pakistan, one of the most important things we had to do was perform the sunnah (tradition of the Prophet PBUH) of aqeeqah for both of my sons. We did this for Little Lady when we visited four years ago and the boys were long overdue: Samurah bin Jundub (RA) reported that […]
Had another one of those light-bulb moments today in the middle of one of the most frantic work days I’ve had this year. Half way through answering non-stop phones, visitors turning up, running down to the local high street where our team was running a recycling awareness event to drop off tables, stationary, goody bags […]
My better half has now left to visit America for six weeks. He will be staying in Chicago and doing dawah work until the end of Ramadan and come home to us in time for Eid. This time last year he was in Pakistan and I came close to having a breakdown trying to manage […]
I have been trying to sit down and write something and upload some pictures for days, but have not had any luck until now due to my volatile work situation.Due to the threat of redundancy (which likely won’t happen now) and complete and utter boredom with certain parts of my work I have been job-hunting. […]
One of the biggest challenges in my life has been my lack of patience. It is something I have worked hard to improve in myself over the last decade so that I can become a kinder and gentler wife and mother and to please Allah (SWT) who says: “And be patient. Surely, Allah is with […]
