I did plan to post lots of pics of beautiful Eid outfits, delicious food and lovely presents, but I don’t think I stopped still in one place long enough to take many pictures. More of the same tomorrow except I am playing host this time to about five families (including one that came to stay […]
London is a completely different place at night: spooky, sparkly, exciting and romantic by turn. Apologies for the bad pictures, this is the best I could do with my camera-phone from a moving car. We decided to take the kids to the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. We finally got there and managed to find […]
I received an e-mail recently from a sister who I have a lot of time for. She wanted to share a piece of advice that had helped her. It really helped me to think about how consciously I do things and I wanted to share her advice (with her permission)as it benefitted me so much: […]
For the second day of Eid we decide to invite everyone to our place (five families). We decorated our house with green and silver balloons and fairy lights (I couldn’t find where I had stashed my Eid banners) Gorgeous decided everyone had to have presents and started filling bags up with every toy he could […]
This week me and my sisters have been busy with planning our Eid party. One of the themes that comes up often on this blog is that of frugal living and finding ways of using less, wasting less, re-using and spending less. We managed to get things together for the party whilst keeping costs fairly […]
Threw the second of my bi-annual Eid parties yesterday…and I think I may have to re-think the whole idea. In a previous post (http://www.happymuslimmama.com/2007/10/eid-party.html) I wrote about how much I enjoyed the party for Eid al-Fitr. It was an opportunity for Hijabi’s to network and to let their hair down, and an alternative to Christmas […]
Have had a good few days after a rather nightmarish week. Weather and horrendous traffic have meant that I have been getting home from work two, three sometime four hours later than I usually do, meaning I am tired, we eat and everyone goes to bed. Because the kids have been on holidays, we have […]
For some reason I had a bit of a stereotype of Lyme Regis and thought it would be dull. But when I heard it was a key stop on the World Heritage Jurassic Coast and was famous for fossil hunting, I had to include it in our Dorset trip. It turned out to be a […]
Posted by Umm Salihah Ahmed at 20:24 Labels: 40 Day Challenge
Posted by Umm Salihah Ahmed at 20:24 Labels: 40 Day Challenge
Wonderful news from two quarters these past few days mash’Allah. My bestest has had a baby boy, much-wanted, much-waited for and certainly much-prayed for. It’s amazing, she is going through so many of exactly the same experiences and feelings I went through and we have so much to share right now. Her little one, Yahya, […]
We had great fun last night with our first family chand raat (night before Eid) celebration. Technically, it was two nights before Eid, but we fugured everyone would be busy tomorrow night. We swapped “Secret Mullah” presents (thanks girls!), got our henna done, ate pizza and watched old wedding video’s (one from 20 years ago, one […]
I have been trying hard recently to add some exercise into my routine. I did Pilates for a while from videos I found on Youtube and that really, really helped improved my movement and flexibility. But I stopped when I felt under the weather and I haven’t wanted to start again since. What I really […]
You know that moment, when you feel you are at a loose end? There is a pile of work in front of you and a long to-do list, there are various people demanding your attention and a long day of work ahead and yet you just are not inclined to do anything anytime soon except […]
