On doing it all or not.

‘How do you do it all’, I feel guilty sometimes when I get this comment as if I have some secret tips for that! When you follow a blog or updates on social media, you see pieces of their lives like their homes, their meals, the stuff they do with their children, ETC and it…

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AROUND PAKISTAN: Fun City in Centaurus Mall in Islamabad (& some thoughts)

Pictures from our trips to Fun City in the Centaurus Mall, Islamabad’s premier mall that opened last year. Probably the first of its kind in the city, it was so nice to have an indoor play area we could take Anya to. The carousal is the main attraction for kids but they have quite a…

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Love like this.

My mom is an only child so we grew up without a khala or mamun1. Ever since we were little we felt that void in our lives as we saw friends/family being loved by theirs. The words khala and mamun were magical for us and many of our childhood make-belief games had a khala character in them. Our favorite self-invented game where we would make…

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Thoughts on why I don’t share her face online

THIS POST IS A REPOST FROM MY OLD BLOG When a friend of mine had her daughter a few months before mine, I remember finding it interesting that she never put pictures of her little girl online. Being picture obsessed that I am, I thought I’d never be able to do that. But when Anya…

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AROUND PAKISTAN: Pakistan Monument in Islamabad

Pictures from an evening at one of Islamabad’s relatively new landmarks, the Pakistan Monument. The drive to this place was beautiful and so were the views of the city once you get here. Also visited the adjacent Pakistan Monument Museum, a great place for history lovers with beautifully vivid displays on the creation of Pakistan…

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