Category: All in a Mom’s Life
5 Tips for Creating a Plan for Your Work-at-Home Business
A business plan is essentially a roadmap for success. It keeps you on course based on your goals and objectives. The old saying is true: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” A business plan helps you analyze your business operations to make sure they are aligned with your short-term and long-term goals. [...]
5 Tips to Help You Keep a Clean Home When You Work Outside the Home
Summer is winding down, and the kids are on their way back to school. At this time of year, I look forward to having a more structured day for me and the kids, with fewer demands on finding child care or running to activities. However, the school year brings more challenges. Things around our home [...]
5 Ways to Accomplish More as a Work-at-Home Mom
When people learn that I earn a living working at home, they often gush about how lucky I am that I never have to step foot out of my house to go to my job each day. They also seem to envision leisurely work days with me in my robe and pajamas tapping away on [...]
4 Self-Care Tips for Busy Moms
If you’re a mom, chances are there’s never a dull moment in your world. Between taking care of the kids, husband, maintaining the home, work and all those errands that keep you on the move, you barely have enough time – let alone energy – to breathe. And that’s a real problem. When it comes [...]
5 Networking Tips for Work-at-Home Muslim Moms
One of my primary goals in 2012 is to spend more time and effort networking and building strategic business relationships. As someone who makes a living working remotely from home, it is easy for me to isolate myself for extended periods of time, but that is neither healthy nor productive. First, when you spend the [...]
Raising Muslim Boys: Sensitivity
A Sixth Sense My oldest son is very sensitive, and he has always been this way. Somehow he has a sixth sense that picks up on pain and sadness in other people. I can remember when he was only a year or two old he could always tell if I was sad or upset, and he [...]
Feeding Your Family With Less Stress
Where did summer go? It seems I was just thinking about summer beginning and now here we are ready for winter! Personally I love falling back into a routine (even if it is crazy at times!). The one challenge I always face is feeding everyone when we are all running in 10 different directions, not [...]
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 [...]
Meal Planning for Ramadan
The month of Ramadan is a time that we look forward to all year. We make duaa that Allah (swt) allows us to live till this blessed month so we can reap as many rewards as possible. There is no doubt that during Ramadan our focus should be on worship but as mothers we still [...]
Announcing: New American Muslim Mom Contributors
Subhanallah/Glory be to God. I’m am so humbled to officially announce 6 (yes–Six!) new contributors to American Muslim Mom! MashaAllah, God has willed a blessed year for my family and the American Muslim Mom brand, and I’m honored to experience this growth. While nearly 3 years since our launch, this family blog actually dates back [...]
Packing a Lunch in a Crunch
Whether you are hurrying the kiddies out the door or preparing for your next vacation to Disneyland, preparing meals to go at home is an excellent way to cut costs. Here are a few hints for making lunch a bit better
American Muslim Mom Video Honors All Mothers
One of the most treasured and popular hadith (sayings or actions of Prophet Muhammad, sallalahi wa layhi wa salam, peace and blessings be upon him) as reported by Bukhari and Muslim is A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Messenger of God! Who among the people is the most worthy of my good [...]
How Do You Define a Fun Friday or Joyous Jummah?
Image: Idea go / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, today is Friday and while many are excited that this is the end of their week, for Muslims it’s actually our day of rest, reflection, congregational prayer–and “weekend” per se. In the celebration of everything great of this weekly Eid (feast, festival), I’m beginning another [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-28
Is focusing on this #nasheed focusing on the #Shahada during #Ramadan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDqsy44fhOU #muslim #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21
#Muslim employee: Disney banned her head scarf (AP) http://bit.ly/bjsSRx http://myprops.org/ntta7 [Reuters/AP Videos] #ramdan #islam # Watch @BoonInc FLO Make a Bubble-Fall & Enter to Win 1 for Your #Kid's Bubble Bath http://bit.ly/aFrjaV #contest # RT @IslamicRelief @Google lets you help flood-affected people in #Pakistan through their crisis response page http://bit.ly/bsdACJ #Pkfloods # #Ramadan Qur'an-A-Thon Sadaqah [...]
