Archive for September, 2011
Dr. Scholl’s® For Her High Heel Insoles $4 Coupons – 15 to Giveaway
Now, at my humble height of 5’2″, I’m never walking without a pair of heels. At the park, in the mall, grocery shopping, or even just in the front of backyard. Hey–I’ve been told MANY times, “Wow, I never noticed how short you are!” only after I take off my heels, such as in the [...]
Dads ARE Capable of Doing the Laundry Too! Watch this Hysterical Clorox 2 Video
I was invited to participate is a Clorox 2 Mom Blogger Challenge. Given I’m just weaning back to blogging, I really didn’t want to participate, even though the Mom Blogger who gets the most views would win a year’s supply of laundry detergent, a brand new washer and dryer and other goodies…BUT, when I clicked [...]
What Ways Do You Give Back to Your Community?
Thanks to Walgreens for sponsoring my writing. Help Walgreens help others! Visit their Facebook page here to learn about their charitable partners and decide which cause Walgreens will donate to with a quick vote.” First, charity starts at home. Beyond our family duties and responsibilities, its incumbent of all Muslims to give back to the [...]
International Islamic Fashion Design Contest – Last Day to Vote…for my 11yo’s 2 designs, please ;-)
No age restrictions, no expertise status required. “…we are looking for talent; raw or refined we are not here to make a distinction. If you have an eye for fashion and are passionate about designing then you qualify.” The second year in a row, Silk Route Clothing is hosting the Silk Route Jilbab Design Competition. [...]
American Muslim Mom Ramadan Worldwide Meetup Follow-up – A Post-9/11 Reality
American Muslim Mom had it’s first Worldwide Ramadan Meetup Day. It was an honor to get a phone call from Meetup staff to create a special day…as expected I willfully obliged. Little did I know that Meetup, “almost 10 years and 10 million Meetuppers later,” was an idea from a local New Yorker after 9/11. [...]
5 Reasons Writers Should Consider Blogging
These days it seems like everyone and her mother has a blog. There are literally thousands of blogs on the web covering a myriad of topics. Some have been regularly updating for years, while others have long since been left to the wayside. Even with so many blogs on the Internet, as a writer you [...]
Learning the Qur’an for free – Tanzil.net Review
As a follow-up to our popular article, Learning the Qur’an for Free Online – QuranExplorer.com and HarfKids.com, it’s imperative to share the top site my girls use now for their Qu’ran memorization: Tanzil.net. They found this resource themselves and prefer it to Qur’an Explorer for the following reasons: Tanzil.net – Great Qur’an Memorization Website Once [...]
Today Only: Free Webinar: Online Business Certification & College-Prep ACT Twitter Party
Salam! Peace! InshaAllah, God willing, everyone had an incredible Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr. Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, we always strive to have a more productive and memorable Ramadan and Eid each and every year–and this year was no exception, subhanallah, Glory be to God. How was yours!? Please do share…while I’m very slowly weaning [...]
Building Social Buzz to Fire Up Your Internet Marketing Efforts!
I had no idea that 69% of the 29.6 million small business owners want help getting customers using the internet…did you? What fascinates me most, is that most of them don’t understand internet marketing. But, what’s often disappointing is that they won’t take the time to study social media, and they don’t have a clue about search engine optimization [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-10
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-03: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-27: #BacktoSchool #GIVEAWAY Ergonomic … http://t.co/tLcui6F # An Intern’s Happy Ending to Summer 2011: Alhamdulillah, all praises are due to God. Internships…something I didn… http://t.co/Py0y5tO # What You Can Do To Get Your Blog Read http://t.co/NXSiRF9 via #sbzclub # Great tips on how you can be [...]
A Natural Process: Homeschooling While Pregnant
So you’re expecting! The alarm rings and you roll over, hit snooze, and pray that hint of nausea goes away with every second on the clock that ticks until the next ring. Mornings just arent the same anymore. Remember that extra energy you had? Where you could do arts and crafts all day, mop the [...]
Top 10 Tips to Gaining Traffic to Your Blogposts
What makes a good blog, gets a lot of traffic, and ensures a motivated user base? That may well be the least rhetorical question about blogging you’ll ever see, and it’s a question you have to ask yourself with every blog you post. If you’re doing online marketing, these are also commercial issues, and you [...]
79 Creatives Ways I Supported My Kids’ School My Way…and, Now YOU Can Too!
As you may know, we’re definitely an unconventional homeschool family that ”schools” our girls our way, from car-schooling to airplane-schooling. One may suspect that we’d run some “school” ‘case studies’ as well, right? For example, overseas private classes, Egyptian overcrowded schoolrooms, an Islamic private academy, and yes–public school! I was the only non-sixth grade parent acknowledged in [...]
6 Mistakes that Can Derail Your Freelance Writing Career
If you’re serious about earning an income as a freelance writer, knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing what to do. Mistakes will happen, especially in the early days as you start your writing career, but some mistakes are harder to bounce back from. Avoiding these errors could result in working [...]
Why I Blog and You Should Too!
When I started blogging it was not because of some pipe dream of internet stardom. It was out of pure annoyance. Way back in 2007 my sister was calling me at least once a week to ask me for my Moroccan recipes. Every week I had to think back and try to tell her all [...]
