There is so much to be grateful for at the moment – my faith, my family, my home, work, my health, the more you think about it, the more you realise that you cannot even begin to understand how much you have to be grateful to Allah (SWT) for, every small and big thing and […]

At the moment my second youngest sister, Fashionista Sister is coming to the last part of her teacher training. I have always believed that a person should strive to find work they can take pleasure in and be passionate about. I don’t believe this anywhere more than with teachers. Thankfully, Fash is passionate about teaching […]

I have quite a lot of reading and book reviews to catch up on, but during Ramadan I tend to drop all of these in favour of reading the Quran.  This year I am starting to fall behind with work, housework, meal preparation and trying to catch up on sleep taking over my life.  I […]

I have been a bit slow the last few days.  Struggling to get up, slow to get anything done.  I’ve been feeling demotivated and letting the late cold snap and an ongoing cold get to me.  So when I woke up yesterday I had a long list of things to do all going round in my head […]

The quote for Day 25 of Ramadan from my box of things to think about is: “The period of waiting patiently for release from suffering is an act of worship” ~ Imam Ghazali (RA) I wish I had internalised this message a long time ago.  Who knows how much pain, humiliation and self-chastisement I could have saved […]

When I think of the abayh, the long, loose dress that many Muslim women wear, I think of how elegant it looks: image source or how chic: image source or how smart and conservative: When I see sisters wearing it, I usually think the same, especially some of the younger sisters who really know how […]

I felt terribly guilty this week, when Little Lady came home from school in tears because not only had I not gone to her class picnic, but I had sent her to school in uniform instead of party dress as had been allowed for the day. She had been given a letter by her teacher […]

So Ramadan is almost upon us insh’Allah, a matter of two or there days to go. I have been thinking about preparation is required on and off, and nothing much had come to mind. I haven’t needed to do a big shop, because we have all the shops on our doorstep almost. I haven’t made […]

I have lost count of the number of times I have been told by people that I am too strict, that I am too religious, that my children will dress modestly or pray when they are older. This is usually directed at my lack of a TV, my encouraging my daughter to pray with me, […]

It seems that despite my efforts to be discreet, some mentions of my health have crept into my writing over the last few months. I write about my life and my experiences and it can be hard to separate how I am feeling physically from that, especially at times like this when it impacts so […]

My phone is always in use for capturing moments with the kids, taking photo’s for the blog and now for silly selfies by the kids.  This weekend we found lots of backgrounds to take pictures against whilst out shopping and the kids complied with plenty of silly poses.

There is so much to be grateful for at the moment – my faith, my family, my home, work, my health, the more you think about it, the more you realise that you cannot even begin to understand how much you have to be grateful to Allah (SWT) for, every small and big thing and […]

There are days when I am itching to do the things I love.  Yesterday was one of those days where I spent the whole day trying to find quiet moments of time in which to sit down at my laptop and write To blog about what is happening with me. To write some articles for […]

I thought that Eyes was a rather difficult prompt for Ramadan, so after much thinking and not getting very far, I thought I’d share this beautiful hadith qudsi: Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Allah has said: I have prepared for My righteous servants what no eye has seen, […]