Pregnancy causes al sorts of reactions – congratulations, special treatment from friends, a few funny looks from people at work and most recently the belief that people know what is best for me.I put up with some very rude comments from other Muslim women when my children were very small – about how I must […]
Pregnancy causes al sorts of reactions – congratulations, special treatment from friends, a few funny looks from people at work and most recently the belief that people know what is best for me.I put up with some very rude comments from other Muslim women when my children were very small – about how I must […]
Alhamdulillah its strange how you can build a relationship based on intuition, conjecture and the guesses about a person you do not really know and have never met. Take my little ones. I have three children and I am expecting my fourth one insh’Allah in the autumn. You would think the child is born, the […]
I got about halfway through yesterday, when long-suffering sister e-mailed me to wish me happy anniversary. I nearly jumped off my seat; we had both forgotten again (we do so every year). It was too late to plan anything because we had a wedding to go to (who has a wedding at 4pm on a […]
Pregnancy causes al sorts of reactions – congratulations, special treatment from friends, a few funny looks from people at work and most recently the belief that people know what is best for me.I put up with some very rude comments from other Muslim women when my children were very small – about how I must […]
Pregnancy causes al sorts of reactions – congratulations, special treatment from friends, a few funny looks from people at work and most recently the belief that people know what is best for me.I put up with some very rude comments from other Muslim women when my children were very small – about how I must […]
My younger sister M, or Shutterbug as I call her on this blog, has always been a keen photographer. Of all of my sisters she is probably the kindest and most selfless. She wanted to buy a DSLR camera (apparently these are the serious cameras – I wouldn’t know) for years but always managed to spend […]
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 […]
I have been meaning to catch up with blogging and my blogging and blog-reading sisters for ages. After three months of feeling exhausted and so nauseous, I have been spending most of my time lying down, last Monday I woke up feeling…normal.I was both amazed and extremely grateful. I remember when I suffered nausea with […]
You might remember not that long ago we welcomed our fourth child, Darling as Little Lady calls her, into the world. Well I’m slightly amazed that Darling is six months already. Mash’Allah this little one has given me six of the happiest months in my life. She has been an easy going, happy little sweetheart […]
After spending three hours on Sunday morning digging up the garden, organising pots, deciding what to grow and what to get hubby to pull out (a big old rose bush which has gotten gnarly and the grape vine from last year which yielded sour grapes), we finally got round to doing some planting this evening.So […]
Today we have had rain showers, sunshine, hailstones, thunder and lightening, the last three on the way home from work. Hubby opened the car window and caught some hail for the kids. What was rather a scary drive, turned into fun thanks to his playfulness.I got home to find my plant pots still full of […]
I have been meaning to catch up with blogging and my blogging and blog-reading sisters for ages. After three months of feeling exhausted and so nauseous, I have been spending most of my time lying down, last Monday I woke up feeling…normal.I was both amazed and extremely grateful. I remember when I suffered nausea with […]
Now I know why we had such a long, cold winter – so that we can really appreciate it when the warmer weather comes along. The last few days have been lovely mash’Allah – bright sun, blue skies, a fresh breeze and everything starting to blossom. I thought this weekend was perfect for taking the […]
