The Egyptian's Wife

Send some duas this way... DH is in the hospital again with the infamous undiagnosable respiratory illness. The new twist is that this time ...

Have you ever heard the joke about the guy trapped on his roof during a flood asking God for help? If you haven’t, here it is… There is a ma...

I am a chronic over-sleeper... I want to get up at 8, I get up at 9. But today, masha'Allah, I am up early, and am ready to go with glut...

Someone found me with that search, I just had to make a post of it! You know your husband is Egyptian when... he insists that if you don...

Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't . Because sometimes you won't . I'm sorry to say so but, sadly...

"Verily, after hardship, there is ease" Quran OK, so when exactly is my ease coming? Lately, well for the last 5 years of my marri...

I am... a Muslim, a mother a wife, a creative but disorganized person. I want... the world to be a safer place for my children, for my child...

So, I wanted to post something in recognition of whoever managed to get here via a google search for breastfeeding Muslim wife. Now, I can o...

So, as one astute reader noted... The long break is due to the fact that the new addition has arrived. A girl, Salmeh, born on Sunday the 4t...

So, in the middle of the changes that are going on in our life... It looks like DH might lose the contract that makes his business possible....

So I have headed into that time where I start to wish I never told anyone my due date... I am ready to have this baby, and I am finding it h...

Soooo, I was fine with the concept that we were buying an old building with 100's of unknowns... And for reasons kinda personal this was...

Every time I tell my DH I can't sleep or complain of some other pregnancy related thing he tells me, "Madesh habibi, a few more day...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Article Now to be fair, I am a little weary of vaccines in general. And I am no virologist. But, read a book or two ...

We have instituted a new practice in our house... Fun Fridays. Every Friday we go out somewhere or do something fun as a family. Now the one...

Teaching DD modesty is important to me. I don't think you can just spring it on them when they are 12yo and expect them to understand. M...

Must get ready for new baby. Must get house in order. Must get baby stuff cleaned. Must make sure I have any newborn stuff left at all. UGH!...

I was just thinking today that I never really get time to enjoy prayer... There is frequently something else I am thinking of like what I ne...

Have you ever noticed how people close to you can really cut you to the quick when they are mad? Yeah. DH laid into me with some nasty comme...

UmmLayla here reporting from my first week of gluten free kitchen duty. Not as bad as I thought. I got a few books, and I tried to stay focu...