Assalam-alaikam everyone and Ramadan Kareem, Alhamdulillah, we are so blessed to find ourselves at the start of another Ramadan filled with blessings, forgiveness and mercy. A chance to get rid of bad habits, start good habits and have our duas’ (supplications) answered. Even more, Allah (SWT) has blessed us with this opportunity to get closer […]
Subhan’Allah, what a stressful week! After a year of being under review for job cuts, one month of consultations and a week of interviews, tests and waiting, I finally got told this week that I was keeping my job. It was a massive relief alhamdulillah.I have desperately been trying to squeeze time in between work, […]
Did I have a crappy day or what today? Forgetting my work shoes, skidding all over the ice, having the busses cancelled on the way home because the main road near my house was closed off (making me panic thinking about why). I had three lots of guests (various friends of hubby dropping by). Dinner […]
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 […]
I finally came down from my manic-active mode this afternoon after a week of being over-busy at work and two or three days of feeling very stressed. I am not very good at recognising when I am stressed except I start to space out (which mostly no one can tell the difference when I am […]
I have written about my grandmother before, but I thought I would share some of the lessons I learnt from being her carer in my early twenties.I have learnt that Sabr is everything. My grandmother lived through war, partition, poverty, a real tough mother-in-law and loneliness when my Grandfather came to Britain to work. After […]
…every now and again: This one was from a design that Little Lady drew for me to try: Posted by Happy Muslim Mama at 15:20 Labels: Creativity, Henna
With term ending and graduations happening all over the place I thought I would make some graduation cards. I made the scroll on the card above by rolling up some textured paper and tying a small piece of ribbon around it. This scroll was made in the same way as above. The paper with the […]
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 […]
Today I am done. It’s not even 10am and I have argued, cried and pushed myself as far as I can go. I woke and was so tired to the bone that I could barely move, it took about half an hour to stop feeling like I was going to drop. I had to go […]
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” […]
Set in the very lovely village of Corfe, Corfe Castle looked like a frightening prospect to climb up to (as well as very spooky from a distance). When we finally convinced everyone to give it a try, it turned out not too difficult to get up to.
I have been learning to make a few new things from the Aunty who is staying with us. I really appreciate her willingness to pass on her tips and echniques alhamdulillah.This is a dish called khatta tinda or sour gourd and tastes delicious – lots of flavour and very tangy. I have got the hang […]
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 […]
