Cup of tea with Aisha

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah all :) weekend is here! Lately I feel like I've been going to the market constantly. Well, I did today too, stocked up with vegetarian proteins and few other things. It's been overall a good week, alhamdulillah. What comes to the vegetarian eating habits, it's been going somewhat well. But I ate few pieces of meat at the dinner few days ago, when I (and husband as a moral support hehe) cooked first time kontomire and agushi stew and wanted to taste it. Was delicious! But I find it hard to find a good meat substitute for these type of stews, so either I enjoy the same dish with my husband or cook my own. I don't take pressure from this. There has been days when I have cooked purely vegetarian/vegan dishes, and then sometimes with eggs and cheese like today. I think it's improvement already, so in sha Allah I will continue and explore new recipes. ... Today I relied on an older recipe, found good and tasty. I have shared this recipe in...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh all :) how are u doing? I'm drinking some ice tea while waiting my hibiscus tea to brew. A lady can't have too much tea! Despite living in this overflowing abundance of it, I can't really give you much anything interesting though.. I had an appointment with my nurse that went well, I went to do grocery shopping, then regular chores, and went to pick my new (used) sandals and bag. But it has been a good day, and I feel inspired. ... I used to dream of a life as an artist when I was younger. There was one year I just spent painting and making songs. I really enjoyed it all, even though my life was very chaotic otherwise. But let's not go into the chaos, at least in this post. Let's focus on the artist part. I still enjoy painting, I don't know if I'm good at it or not, but I just love it. I love the colors and paints, mixing, letting the picture reveal itself. I paint very similarly than I write, kinda just gettin...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah dears :) how's your weekend going? I have an extra day in the week because I thought the whole day that today is Sunday. Alhamdulillah. We had our differences today, both went our own ways in the daytime, but we had also some time to hang out together on the balcony too. Later we had more differences as we had an argument, but it's ok now. That happens sometimes. I hope we both learn from this. I love him so much and just want him to be happy.  ... The day has been blue, hence the jacket. I got also today a Vinted bought skirt, smoky blue too but way too skimpy.. but skimpy goes for home wear so it's ok, hehe. It has been so warm this weekend that it feels like summer really has started, even though we just have welcomed May. Usually the first summer month in Finland is June. But there's little leaves on the trees, "mouse ears" as we call them, and some flowers have popped up and the grass is green. Ma sha Allah. The winter is ...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah all :) how are u? I'm waiting to get more work shifts, so I had a day off today. Went to market and then I did some home chores, and had a cup of tea on the balcony. It's still quite cold, but weekend should be really warm in sha Allah :) first of May too.. how do you celebrate? We don't really, but I'm making a nice dinner anyway. ... I noticed looking at the statistics that I have new readers from many different countries. I did an introduction of myself in my first first post, so I thought I could update it a bit. So here it is: Aisha Elina, who is she? - a writer, used to be a bit of a poet and a singer. I'm currently writing the second season of my blog, some might still remember the old one. It was similar to this, I write about my life and daily things, sometimes diving deeper and sometimes floating on the surface. - a muslim revert of 11 years now. I follow the Sunni way, but in the end we are all muslims. I wear hijab, I pra...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh :) how have u been? My day started with grocery shopping, and my husband came to help me because I was stressing about it too much. Alhamdulillah. We got everything we needed. Then I relaxed a bit and started cooking. Today we ate some rice and beans, tomato stew (for hubby with meat and for me with mushrooms), salad, and I had also some pan fried halloumi-type of cheese. Then we have been relaxing, and I wanted to take my time to talk with you guys :) I'm pretty tired though, I might take a nap. But let's chat first. ... I'm currently learning/remembering what it was like to be the main character. I have a tendency to put myself aside and it has become a part of my personality, which is not good. I mean, how it looks like is that I am a good listener, I take care of my friendships (also by being usually the first one to call/text), I quit what I'm doing and answer the phone and so on.. Literally I put myself on a shelf and...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah all :) how are u today? I've had a productive day and I'm happy for that. I planted some seeds, made some shampoo bars, went to market, cooked dinner, spend some time with hubby and went to pick two packages. Alhamdulillah. My period started so I take advantage of not following any schedule. ... I also got my book from post! Healing with the medicine of the Prophet. It's interesting, I already went through it a bit. It's written by Ibn Qayyim. I'm excited to gain more knowledge on a matter that I am really interested in. I had this phase years ago where I was into herbal medicine, and now I've found that spark again. In sha Allah this is beneficial and I will learn new things. :) What comes to the plants, I planted some cress and habanero today. I'll keep them still inside for few weeks.. let's see what happens. I have a little experience of growing chili on the balcony. That time I used store bought seeds, now I used jus...