Teaching Your Child About Sustainability
We live very simple, green, as-natural-as-possible lives, and I’m happy to share more articles about sustainability for all of us to learn from. Tom’s tips below are designed to get you and your kids to enjoy the process as a way of life, rather than a drudgery. I’m so happy to read, that my family [...]
Daily Tips for Saving on Electricity
After spending nearly 6-months in oppressed land, no dedicated electricity, and hardships beyond acceptable limits, we returned home determined to keep our habits of living without electricity and apply it to the consumer-driven lives here in America. Conservation goes FAR beyond saving dollars on the electricity bill, or saving the Earth; it’s about appreciating Allah’s [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-21
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Recipe: Foolproof Baked Brown Rice
I’m always trying to improve the way my family eats. I strive to serve meals using as many healthy ingredients as I can fit into a recipe. I’ve attempted making brown rice in the past, but I have always had unappetizing results. It would either be too mushy or crunchy–sometimes even a mixture of both. [...]
How to Store Fresh Produce
Remember our previous post, Life in Gaza: Produce. From Stand to Shelf? If you haven’t read it yet, click on the link to discover how the family and I managed to store fresh in Gaza without a refrigerator. Subhanallah, just when I had finished writing that post, a friend shared this awesome blogpost, “How to Store [...]
Preparing for the Transition to Motherhood
When a woman is expecting, she eagerly anticipates the birth of her baby. For nine months she has dreamed about holding her infant, counting the tiny toes and examining every inch of the newest member of her family. Most women can’t wait to get to know this precious, brand-new person. Whether a new mother is [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-14
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Recipe: Power Biscotti
Having three little girls ages five to newborn is very tiring. My calories and time have to count. To get a bit of a recharge I bake a batch of biscotti. It’s not as labor intensive as one may think. I remember being quite intimidated by biscotti recipes in the past, but after making it [...]
Are You A Productive Muslim?
Procrastination. We’ve all encountered it and fallen deeply into its trap. When faced with a daunting to-do list (or even a short manageable one), it’s amazing what suddenly becomes of interest to us. Friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter will be updating you constantly on their lives, your closets and desk space will call [...]
Tiny Buttery Crumb Cookies: The Finished Product
Asalaamu Alaykum! As you may recall, a few days ago, we posted a recipe with an accompanying video for Making Tiny Buttery Crumb Cookies with Your Kids. Many of you seemed intrigued with this recipe. So, based on all the comments stating your interest, we decided to share pictures of the finished product with you. [...]
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7 Tips for Building and Working Your LinkedIn Network
When I first created a profile on LinkedIn, I honestly had no idea of the potential of this powerful this networking tool. I put together a simple profile summary, company description, included my website and blog urls and slowly started making connections with others. Within two weeks, two local companies contacted me about my copywriting [...]
Four Reasons Why Allowing Your Children to Spend Time Overseas Alone is a Good Idea
As a mom today there is a lot of advice and criticism given to us by others. One of the topics I have heard a lot of criticism about is my decision to let my children, on different occasions travel and stay overseas without me. Mind you they were not hitch hiking Europe solo at [...]
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Making Tiny Buttery Crumb Cookies with Your Kids
Making Tiny Buttery Crumb Cookies is so easy & fun. It obviously takes minutes if I have a nice measuring-tablespoon to scoop up the crumbs as a cookie cutter and plop them onto the tray…it’s so much fun that my girls fight for the chore! But, the shaped spoons are not readily available here in Gaza. [...]
