I had a very ordinary day yesterday – shopping, a visit from my best friend, dinner at my mums, but in some ways it was one of these pivotal days for me, the kind that turns things on their head and changes my thinking. I have had a busy few days and had been quite […]

I had a very ordinary day yesterday – shopping, a visit from my best friend, dinner at my mums, but in some ways it was one of these pivotal days for me, the kind that turns things on their head and changes my thinking. I have had a busy few days and had been quite […]

I had a very ordinary day yesterday – shopping, a visit from my best friend, dinner at my mums, but in some ways it was one of these pivotal days for me, the kind that turns things on their head and changes my thinking. I have had a busy few days and had been quite […]

I am debating whether to turn this post into a full on rant, but I think it’s sometimes more useful to be reflective than angry. We are more than half way through the holidays and the refrain of “we are bored” and “what do we do when you’re not at home” has been ongoing. I […]

One of my friends, who is a colleague at work, is very entrepreneurial and always buzzing with great ideas. Last week she suggested to a few different people that we bring in things that we make one lunchtime and try to sell them. As we hadn’t gained permission, we had to do this quietly and […]

One of my friends, who is a colleague at work, is very entrepreneurial and always buzzing with great ideas. Last week she suggested to a few different people that we bring in things that we make one lunchtime and try to sell them. As we hadn’t gained permission, we had to do this quietly and […]

One of my friends, who is a colleague at work, is very entrepreneurial and always buzzing with great ideas. Last week she suggested to a few different people that we bring in things that we make one lunchtime and try to sell them. As we hadn’t gained permission, we had to do this quietly and […]

I have always tried to be honest with my children and always encouraged them to be the same with me. In our house mistakes that are owned up to are met with understanding not anger and we work together to put right the mistakes we make. This policy has worked fairly well most of the […]

I have always tried to be honest with my children and always encouraged them to be the same with me. In our house mistakes that are owned up to are met with understanding not anger and we work together to put right the mistakes we make. This policy has worked fairly well most of the […]

I have always tried to be honest with my children and always encouraged them to be the same with me. In our house mistakes that are owned up to are met with understanding not anger and we work together to put right the mistakes we make. This policy has worked fairly well most of the […]

I have been having great fun messing around with MS Paint, Google images and some old pictures from my blog. Kooks has asked me to do a guest post for her pretty blog which I am slightly addicted to (that blog and Aaina Bridal are my two sources for indulging in eye candy): “Anyway, she […]

I got home from work today to find that hubby had made dinner. I thought, how nice, a little bit of time to lie down and read before I get going again alhamdulillah. Twenty minutes. For twenty whole minutes, the house was so peaceful with Little Man napping and Little Lady reading. From experience I […]

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, […]

We usually throw one Eid party a year for ladies and children but in the last year or two I had found these getting rowdy and moving away from my aim of providing a halal environment for my Muslimah friends to meet, enjoy and in some small way remember Allah (SWT): Abu Hurairah and Abu […]