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” […]

Quite a few sisters have asked me in the past how I manage my time or structure my day to get the most out of the day, or to even get everything done. This is something I have been thinking about a lot recently as I experiment with ways to get things done at home […]

My first few days at the new office have been mixed, but I am glad to find that my experience there is improving alhamdulillah. The prayer room we were promised is still under construction, but the facilities people have been kind enough to point out various storage and utility rooms we can use in the […]

I used to go out quite often with work colleagues before I had my children, but can’t remember having done so at all since I have had them. So this time when the lovely girls I work with insisted I could not say no. We settled on Yumyum in Stoke Newington which I had heard […]

Me and my sisters were recently invited to a baby shower for someone very special to us who is expecting their first baby.  The party decor was in a very pleasing mint green and we all helped out with the decor.  I did the banner and all three of the girls found green sweets, Fashionista […]

There are few things I love as much as the handwritten love notes that I get from my children.  Little Lady used to be particularly prolific and I have some wonderful examples of her musings hidden away in my diary and keepsake boxes. This is my favourite, which I always keep with me.  She wrote […]

I am finding that as I get older (into my grand old late 20’s) rather than doing the things I should do dutifully, I am having a hard time doing things I don’t want to do. As a teenager and young adult, I always thought about what others want and I assumed that as I […]

I had a strange kind of a day yesterday, I often feel spaced out and out of sorts when I have a lot to do and don’t break it down into chunks to stop it overwhelming me. I had a long to-do list to get the housekeeping in order, but an utter disinclination to getting […]

You may or may not have noticed that I have not been blogging very much recently. I seem to be on some sort of a go-slow. I have not been blogging very much or responding to my e-mails very quickly (sorry! I will get back to you insh’Allah), I have not been near my card-making […]

…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

Alhamdulillah, there have been some great suggestions for books to read and inspire in response to the craft give-away.  Crafts pack are on their way to the following sisters for their suggestions: Umm Z from the Maldives: One of my all time favourite books is Little Women and the sequels Good Wives, Little Men and Jo’s […]

I read (and reviewed) the three books in the Sevenwaters trilogy some time ago with varying degrees of enjoyment, but still enough to read this fourth instalment when Kooky Little Sister happened upon it.Each of the novels picks up the story of one of the women in a successive generation. The setting is ancient Ireland, […]

I seem to be getting worse not better. I can’t take a walk without forming a scenario in my head and I don’t take in anything around me as I walk along. As soon as I have a lie-down I am somewhere else. Half of my meals get burnt because I forget I am in […]

John Wyndham is one of my favourite writers (his Chrysalids is definitely one of my favourite books) so I fancied re-reading this book when I saw it in the library.It’s odd how you remember one story and on re-reading a book you find something completely different. I originally remembered the book touching on its end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it […]