With less than three weeks to go to Ramadan, I am trying to take my own advice and prepare for the sacred month as well as I can. The main things I have been doing at the moment are: I have been organising my kitchen and trying to make some space in my freezer. I am trying […]

I managed to have a relatively easy going time this evening.  I usually have a short sunnah nap after work as it allows me to do the night prayer, wake for suhoor and function at work the next day.  Today I set the alarm for 30 minutes (5:30pm) and woke two hours later at 7pm.  […]

I had an urge for some retail therapy this morning and not wanting to waste too much money, I decided to take a trip to the charity shops.  Gorgeous wakes up early like me and is the only one that will tolerate going anywhere near a charity shop, even the babies moan at me if […]

I had been struggling with a pile of books that were not holding my attention and needed something I could get lost in enough to stay away from wasting time surfing the web. I spotted this book at the supermarket and brought it home with my shopping. Where the Crawdads Sing is the story of […]

Two years ago I had the bright idea of creating a space for myself for blogging, crafts and working from home for the office.  It was such a nice idea.  Hubby bought me a nice white desk and a lockable white cabinet to match.  I even had flights of fancy about an inspiration board and putting […]

I come down early one morning recently and found a box decorated with animals in the front room.  I though it was rather a nice box and might be useful to store some of the kids stuff in.  Hubby had come home late from doing a house work and left it there. I took a […]

I have made quite good friends with a Sister whose daughter is in Little Lady’s class. One day she invited me to her home and I went along with my children in tow. She was great company and very hospital, bringing out endless trays of food. Whilst there I met another Sister whose daughter was […]

I’ve always been a big fan of self-help books since I was a teenager, and one of the key things I have learned (apart from they all like to state the obvious) is that if take any action towards our goal, no matter how small the step, it can really motivate us to get out […]

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It has been seven days since Ramadan started, a week of the holy month gone by so very quickly alhamdulillah.  After failing to wake for suhoor on the firsts day and spending the day with a debilitating headache, the rest of the days have gone by fairly comfortably.  Our sleep is broken, our diets are […]

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 […]

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I like to use this week of the year to look back on the current year and start planning for the next.  This week I am off work and the boys and hubby are away for three days in the path of Allah (staying at a masjid somewhere in Kent). The house is peaceful, clean […]

I wrote a while back about the effect I would like to have on my family when I come home from work. How I would love them to think that the “parties started” when I walk through the door.In reality, by the time we come we are sometimes already tired and the thought of the […]