On having an only child

I’ve recently started receiving a lot of questions about having an only child, whether I worry about my kid not having siblings of her own, how I handle people’s questions etc and I felt like I can finally talk about this here maybe. So if you have an only child for whatever reason, this one’s for…

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A simple DIY photo display

For a photographer myself, I don’t have a lot of photos displayed in our home. I have lots of big ideas but while I wait to finally implement them (fingers crossed these happen soon), I love to find little ways to decorate with photos around us.  Sharing this simple photo display from our kitchen that…

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A journal-ing exercise to start the new year with

So I am too much of a free soul & too moody to follow through on new year resolutions! Can anyone else relate? The ‘losing this much weight’ or ‘reading this many books’, or ‘seeing this many places’ etc kind. It’s amazing if you do that but they mostly don’t work for myself. And if…

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4 tips for busy moms (+ non-moms too) creatives & entrepreneurs

Last month I shared some tips for mom entrepreneurs, bloggers or creatives on Instagram stories and loved hearing back from you guys! As requested I saved them on highlights on Instagram but I wanted to summarize them in a blog post too, so here I am! TIP 1: USE A PLANNER This is where it…

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Three ideas to connect your younger kids to their Muslim identity

Someone asked me on Instagram if I would do a post about how to raise good Muslim kids and I felt like that was something I would love to write more about. I know this is a common concern for a lot of parents when we’re living in non-muslim majority countries. I thought I would…

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