Cup of tea with Aisha

 Assalamu aleikum dears :) Ramadan is here! We follow the Saudi announcement of the sighting of the moon, so we started to fast today. Alhamdulillah. I fasted my missed days from last year mainly during January and February, so I am a bit used to the feel.  ... So today, I was hoping to get a work shift but didn't, but got one for later on this week. Then I picked a package, and bought few items from the market (more bananas for banana smoothies, hehe). I feel like I am more present in the moment and that feels good. I have been so happy and hopeful all day, ma sha Allah. This is definitely some progress, and I strive to stay on this path.  I have also read Qur'an, like I planned, and instead of feeling like it's a duty, the Qur'an feels interesting and comforting. Reassuring, that's what I've been yearning. I hope this is a beginning for a growing imaan and becoming closer to Allah swt. ♡ ... I hope you all are doing well. Remember to pray for Palestine and all...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah dears :) how did your weekend go? Greetings from my sofa corner nest. I have pillows and a blanket, a cup of tea and some time to chat with you guys. :) It has been a nice weekend, nothing special though. We didn't celebrate Valentine's Day, but we did hangout at home together the day. I have also wanted to take it easy this weekend, because next week I have some things to do. I hope to get some work shifts in sha Allah, and also I have the anxiety group starting, then a laundry shift too and so on. And Ramadan starts! May Allah let us all reach the blessed month and make our practice accepted. ... I haven't done a favorite list for a while, so let's see some February favorites! 1. Sweatpants I wrote earlier I live in these hehe. Not at home, but outside. Sweatpants to market, sweatpants for a walk, sweatpants for running errands.. I wonder when the abaya time comes. It is coming though, I can feel it. :) 2. My hubby I don't talk muc...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah all :) how have u been? I wasn't gonna write, but after a brief reasoning, I crawled out of the sofa corner and now I'm here with you, with a cup of good night tea. So let's see where this goes. :) ... I had an empty spray bottle, and I was wondering how to make it useful again. Now in the wintertime my skin feels often dry, and I have started to get small wrinkles, so I wanted something that would hydrate my skin. Decided to try rose water! Oh it smells so beautiful.. It's so easy, I just bought a bottle (1.90 e) and poured half of it in the spray bottle and it's ready to use. I have only used it today, but my skin feels softer. It's a good add to a natural beauty routine.  AI tells that the use of rose water dates back over a thousand years, with its origins rooted in Persian and Middle Eastern traditions. It has been used in baking and sweets, as well as medicine. Rose water is a by-product of making oil for perfumes from rose...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah dears :) jummah mubarak! It has been a nice Friday, ma sha Allah. I had an job interview at 12 for caretaker work, and at the end of the call the interviewer lady welcomed me back. Alhamdulillah! I'll start to do gigs as soon as possible. I actually have applied for certain customers, but this gig work we agreed on is even better in my situation, because I can control better when I'm ready to make more work and when less. I also went to do grocery shopping and bought everything. I feel so happy when our fridge is full. Simple blessings, but not to be taken granted of. Then we had dinner, prayers, watching tv. Suttis has been so calm lately, mostly he wants to sleep and eat. But he has been active too. I need to wear wool socks around the house when he is roaming freely because he likes to bite toes and doesn't hesitate. Luckily he is a bit slow (but sometimes he manages to surprise me... ouch!).  ... I'm happy with this progress. I have ...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh :) how are u? I better make some tea! Today has been fine, alhamdulillah. I went to grocery shopping and the pharmacy. Spent the day home with hubby. Oh, and I got accepted in one cosmetics testing group, I'm happy about it. I will tell more about it later in sha Allah. So yeah, easy day in my own bubble.. I do worry about news, and finances, but I try to be on the positive side.  ... I see you have gone, dear readers. I was hoping for similar reader rates than November and December, because I was thinking to monetize my blog. But it's ok, I'm glad that I didn't, because it wasn't such a good idea anyways. It would have meant that you could have still read free, but there would be those annoying ads and pop-up ads. It's ok, I try to figure out something else.  And I do see you, who come back still. Not individually, but I have seen US in the statistics for a long while, and of course I have some Finnish readers ever...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah everyone :) how's your weekend? Greetings from the sofa corner. Today it was -16 here in Helsinki, Finland, and I did what I had to do as a Finn: go for a nice, crisp walk in the forest. I love the cold, at least these temperatures. More than -20 degrees starts to be too much, hehe. The walk did good, alhamdulillah. Even hubby said that my face looks brighter :)  It feels good to just go out and enjoy my time. But I enjoy being at home too. We ate our dinner and then I baked some cookies with the ingredients I could find (cocoa cookies it is). Now the guys are sleeping, other in the bed and other in the curtains, and I made a nest in the corner of the sofa. ... I'm on my period. This time it came early, I didn't even have time to think of a pregnancy test. This is a big test for me. There's not much that I could do right now. Except keeping the hope up. It is difficult, like tests are, and this is really wearing me out. But it also remin...