Eid Mubarak everyone. Busy making cupcakes and 6-hour rice pudding for breakfast.Have the pots on the stove for dinner.The kids were up very early and went crazy at the balloons we put up last night.The whole family is coming to ours for lunch…and dinner!Little Lady and my little cousin are ready with their mendhi cones, […]
I went to buy a beginners Quranic Arabic lesson book for my youngest child and came across this book. It’s generous (almost A4) size and attractive cover encouraged me to take a look and the idea, introducing children to hadith, piqued my interest. The book is divided by theme: faith, prayer, Ramadan, repentance, parents, manners, […]
I got through the housework in a rush this morning, with the plan that I go to visit the mother of one of Little Lady’s classmates. I have gotten to know this wonderful sister and she has honoured us by attending one of our annual Eid parties. She has been asking me to come visit […]
SaySubhanAllah.com is a user-friendly and diverse website that brings together a wide variety of Islamic content including Quranic Ayah’s, Hadith and prayers. The team behind the website say that their goal is simply to “help ourselves and you better understand Islam” Content on the site is available in English, Urdu and even Sindhi. The key […]
At the moment I am killing time at work, surfing the net and waiting until 12.30 when we are all going to be let out of our cages (not really fair to my employers, but I feel caged up at the moment). I also have one eye on the mountain of tins full of chocolates […]
This subject is one that I have been mulling over or a while. I must have started writing and then deleted what I have written half a dozen times, but I still haven’t got to the heart of what I want to explore. With a good number of my mum’s friends complaining about their children’s […]
(using up the left-over scraps) Posted by Happy Muslim Mama at 19:59 Labels: Cards, Crafts, Creativity
Assalam-alaikam, Just a reminder for the craft give-away – there are still two packs left, so please get in touch at [email protected] and tell me which book has moved, motivated or inspired you the most in your life (other than the Quran or Bible) and why. Look forward to hearing from you (there have been […]
We are now well into the third lockdown in London and the second stint of home-schooling. I remember how relieved I was when the children went back to school, thinking to myself: “I am never doing this again”, only to find myself there again less than six months later: Home schooling five children Navigating GCSE’s, […]
My mother-in-law avoids cauliflower and potato curry because it gives her gas, so guess what was the first thing I cooked when she left? It actually turned out yum. Another thing about cauliflower and potato curry is that you can use the leftovers to make a kind of stuffed buttered bread called a paratha.My mum […]
One of the things that I am finding myself challenged by at the moment is mealtimes. The first few days of school closures and working from home, I thought I was being silly, but as the days went on, I reflected that I had gone from cooking dinner, to organising three meals a day for […]
Assalam-alaikam, I realise it’s been a year since I last wrote and in that time I have had moments when I yearned to write and others when I wondered if I ever would again. Then today I realised I have this little pocket of time for myself every day between clearing up after Iftar and […]
As a mother, working or not, it seems our work is truly never done. Meals, baths, bedtime, housework, cuddle-time, prayers, school run, activities, trips to the shops, library, doctor, visiting, entertaining gests. Even our hobbies and leisure time become things to do, do, do.Our mothers worked and often did not have time to themselves when […]
As a child I grew up with the stories of my mother from her village in the Punjab, some terrible, some hilarious, all a window onto another life and world. One of the stories that stood out was about the time her village found itself in circumstances so difficult that people would dig up anthills […]
