Love and skills

When you have the skills and talents, you're able to create wonderful things for others. Some skills which may be latent needs just a spark to make things going. My aunt is one I call creative and innovative at the same time. With her sewing skills, she has recycled cloths she made into clutch bags, purses and many other bags. The only thing is that she's not into online biz. So family members become witnesses of her creative juices and purchase them for personal use or as gifts to others. Oh, what if I help her sell her products... hmm good idea? *grins*

I also envy friends who take time to indulge in artsy stuffs and produce hand-made cards or personalised book covers for others. It's just that I myself love these kind of activities but actualising them needs effort at my present moment. Because I miss designing things during my past time. Past time now is equivalent to reading books or watching DVD with hubby or window shopping with my family...

Likewise, mouth-watering desserts or food for those who enjoy the art of cooking leaves me in full admiration for their skills and not forgetting, the passion to do it and sharing recipes online. They left me with a strong urge, to be eagerly desirous of those tantalising food galore. I aspire to do that, at least, during the weekend breaks when lectures are off.

Hehe but at the moment, nothing from the above beat the skills of my cutie pie who has been working pretty hard and putting a lot of practice and keeps improving...Alhamdulillah. There are moments where he showed his struggles when he first started. Since then, whenever I return home from work, I keep myself updated of his milestones. While playing with him, I remind myself that this is part of building his self-esteem and this should be done through unconditional love. I am sure as mums, we want the best for our child to the point that we demand too much from him and seeks perfection. Every child develops differently. What we can do and remind ourselves is to express praises to Allah in his presence whenever our child develops a new skill. This may be one of the ways of tarbiyyah for him/her to be surrounded by the beauty of Allah and Islam. I simply enjoy spending time with him at this 'cheeky' age. I'm sure dear mummies love it too!

When we build a warm and friendly relationship with our children, we establish the best opportunity for imparting strong moral and spiritual values to them--the key to high self-esteem. --muslimsmothers@blogspot.com

Majlis Kesyukuran ~ 060609

A nice date for a more than only a nice moment. It signified a more responsible future, to be more independent in the years to come and to feel the meaning of adulthood, like how our parents used to experience during their transition period.

And so we had our do'a selamat / majlis kesyukuran for Iman, which was the initial plan (He had his tahneek @ the mosque. So no cukur rambut @ home). But since we bought the new house and it was spacious for the occasion, we decided to make it a housewarming event too for family members and close ones.

Iman was well-behaved that day. Me and hubb thought that he was paying his overdue sleeping time as he had only been sleeping half an hour or even 10 minutes for the past week. That really took up my personal time as mak and me had to 'layan' him as he loves to stand and be carried around the house. He slept for 4 hours and woke up, after which he was passed around and only cried during feeding time.

I hardly ate that day, only to realise I missed out on some of the yummy food and delicacies at night. Was just too busy entertaining guests and quenching my thirst most of the time.

Cake brought by Cik Midah

I miss Wawan! And not to forget, the newly-wed Didi just back from honeymoon

A few of us


When the March brothers collide.. huhuh..

Alhamdulillah it went well. Hopefully this house will be a place for us to fill it with Mahabbah and Rahmah and insyaAllah rumahtangga Da'wah...

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Tawazun Dalam Rumahtangga.

Berumahtangga juga bagi seorng daie adalah bertujuan untuk melaksanakan ubudiyah dan bukan untuk menghalangnya. Adalah disedari bahawa terdapat banyak ujian dan fitnah yang terdapat dalam rumahtanggga. Salah satu daripada ciri penting rumahtangga dakwah adalah keseimbangan atau tawazun.

Keseimbangan ini adalah :

a)Di antara kecintaan kepada isteri dan anak-anak dengan kecintaan kepada Allah dakwah dan jihad.

b)Diantara kecintaan kepada keselesaan hidup bersama keluarga dengan kesungguhan berdakwah di tengah tengah masyarakat yang sangat mencabar.

c)Diantara kecenderungan untuk memberikan kesenangan hidup keluarga dengan harta benda dengan tuntutan berbelanja ke jalan Allah SWT.

Para du’at perlu melalui dengan bersungguh-sungguh untuk menatijahkan keseimbangan ini kerana ramai para duat yang gugur di perjalanan dakwah kerana kegagalan mereka melahirkan keseimbangan ini dan kegagalan mereka mendidik isteri dan anak-anak untuk menerima serta melaksanakan keseimbangan ini.

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