Enjoying the Sun

Dear sisters!

The time has come: I have holidays! :-) I passed the exam yesterday, Alhamdulillah, and insha'Allah I'll also have passed the two papers I wrote :-) Next week I will be observing speech-language pathologists so that I can try to have my first clients (1 or two + a group) this Autumn! It won't seem like not having holidays, because I just love speech-language pathology. Now I only have 1½ years left of my studies, Alhamdulillah.

I hope you're all doing well. Of course I slept till more than 7 this morning and I spent the whole day outside with my sister and just enjoyed not having to study anything! For dinner I met my husband at a sushi restaurant :-)

I just took a cheese cake(!) out of the oven. Something I've been craving sooo much for a long time! And if I like the result I will share the recipe on my blog, insha'Allah.

My husband will go abroad for 12 days on Sunday and I'm already excited about it and already missing him too :-/ Hehe. But insha'Allah we'll both have a wonderful time although we're not together.

Take care dear sisters and you'll hear from me soon again.

Behind Every Great Blog...

Dear sisters!

I hope you're all doing well <3

You know I'm busy with studying - one week and two days until my last exam! Yay. I'm already trying to plan my two first weeks of holidays - although I have to work a bit too... My husband will be abroad visiting friends and I will be all by myself, so I need to do something I like! :-) Like going to the sea, visit a city/town I don't know yet, go to the forest, visit family, see friends, watch a movie at the cinema, go to a fav. café and have tea and cheesecake. Hehe. I haven't been alone for such a long time (10 days it'll be) since I married my husband four years ago, Alhamdulillah. It's a bit exciting. Lol.

By the way this picture and text below really made me laugh!

And the husbands wonder why the dinner isn't being served... - We're all busy blogging! :-D

And speaking of great blogs: I'm going to post a list of a few blogs I recently discovered, which I would definitely encourage you to visit - and hopefully follow too :-) Enjoy:

Guard Your Heart

Noir Stripes

 

time turns flames to embers

LOVE2COOK

Ital is vital, halal and sweet

I Cook Halal

Abundance Tapestry

Long Night...

Dear sisters,

I hope you're all doing well <3 This is just a short update on my life at the moment :-)

I feel like it's going to be a loooong night tonight... I've been working on a paper in Neuropsychology for some time now and all day today too (except when I prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner for my family). I'm writing about the (possible) connection between Autism and the Amygdala! Interesting stuff indeed, but I don't really love writing papers actually...

Right now I'm in a flow - needed a short (blogging-)break though - and I hope to finish the paper latest on Saturday, 'cause I have to spell-check (etc.) two papers for Monday. Insha'Allah I'll be done in time! I'm doing my best to not become stressed, although sometimes I feel the stress running through my veins! Lol. Please keep me in your duaa's :-) Tomorrow I'll have to study at the library, so I can concentrate on the paper the whole day without too many interruptions.

I hope you sisters, who are studying too, are doing well and that you aren't stressed out and will make everything in time <3 

 

PS: Welcome to my wonderful new followers! :-) As you might have guessed, I'm in the middle of my exam period right now. In 1½ years I'll have my master's degree in Speech & Hearing Sciences, insha'Allah :-)

And jazakallah khair for the 9 sweet sisters who joined my Tea-blog :-)

If it wasn't for my followers, I wouldn't be blogging! Love you :-D

Good Morning & The Crying Tree

Good morning my sisters!

You have to know how much I appreciate my old- and new followers and how grateful I am, everytime one of you comment on my blog. Subhan'Allah, I have made beautiful friends through blogging.

Today is a grey and windy day, but I noticed how the trees will very soon show their beautiful leaves to the world again, masha'Allah!

I have to study a lot today, since I have to talk about Emotions & Social Cognition with two other students next week in front of our class and on Sunday, we have planned to meet up to put all the pieces together. I hope I can be productive today and tomorrow! If I make some breaks listening to the Qur'an, cleaning the house and having some food, everything will go well, insha'Allah.

Before I leave I want to wish you Jummah Mubarak and share this incredibly beautiful hadith with you. Have a beautiful day my dear sisters:

Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him and his father) reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to go and stand next to a tree or palm-tree on Fridays. A woman or a man of the Ansar said: "O Messenger of Allah, should we not make for you a Minbar ("pulpit")?" He said, "If you wish." So they made a Minbar for him, and when the next Friday came, he was shown to the Minbar. The tree cried like a small child, then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came down and hugged the crying tree until it calmed down." Jabir said: "It was crying because of the Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) that it used to hear."

al-Bukhari, 3319

I Miss You

I just have to say it: I MISS YOU ALL!!! I miss blogging and reading all your wonderful posts and I hate not having time for it. So I had to just post something tonight. Hehe.

I hope you're all doing well! As for me I'm doing well, just studying way hard and have a deadline for finishing most of my bachelor project this Friday morning (which came as a 'pleasant' surprise for me today), 'cause my teacher is taking her Christmasvacation the week after and won't be able to read my project then before the deadline the 3rd of January :-/ Insha'Allah I can work hard and well on it tomorrow and have the things finished that she wants me to.

And on to something else...

I received this by email the other day and thought I'd share it here:

A man woke up early in order to pray the fajr prayer in the masjid. He got dressed, made his ablution and was on his way to the masjid. On his way to the masjid, the man fell and his clothes got dirty.

He got up, brushed himself off and headed home. At home, he changed his clothes, made his ablution and was again, on his way to the masjid.

On his way to the masjid, he fell again and at the same spot! He again, got up, brushed himself off and headed home. At home he, once again changed his clothes, made his ablution and was on his way to the masjid.

On his way to the masjid, he met a man holding a lamp. He asked the man of his identity and the man replied: 'I saw you fall twice on your way to the masjid, so I brought a lamp so I can light your way.' The first man thanked him profusively and the two were on their way to the masjid.

Once at the masjid, the first man asked the man with the lamp to come in and pray Fajr with him. The second man refused. The first man asked him a couple more times and, again, the answer was the same. The first man asked him why he did not wish to come in and pray. The man replied, 
'I am Satan.' The man was shocked at this reply. Satan went on to explain, 'I saw you on your way to the masjid and it was I who made you fall. When you went home, cleaned yourself and went back on your way to the masjid, Allah forgave all of your sins. I made you fall a second time, and even that did not encourage you to stay home but rather, you went back on your way to the masjid.

Because of that, Allah forgave all the sins of the people of your household .

I was AFRAID if I made you fall one more time, then Allah will forgive the sins of the people of your village, so I made sure that you reached the masjid safely.' 

May Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala grant us perfect Muslim Heart and we all do our Prayers with all our Heart and Soul... Ameen....

Take care all my dear sisters. You mean so much to me :) and I love sharing things with you!

Exam Period...

My dear Blogger-sisters!

I have not forgotten you and I would sure love to blog all day long, BUT my exam period has seriously started now and I'm working on my bachelor-project and studying for a big exam in Audiology. So please excuse me for my lack of comments on your lovely blogs and for my lack of posts. I'll check my blog and your blogs now and then and look forward to my holidays in January! I just received an e-mail telling my bachelor-project must be done on the 3rd of January and my exam in Audiology is on the 4th of January! :-/ I hope I'll learn all that I need to pass and that my project will be accepted too... Insha'Allah! Make duaa for me please... And if everything goes well I can enjoy holidays till the beginning of February :-D Last year I didn't have winter-holidays because my last exam was in the last week of January!

Lots of hugs and sisterly greetings to you all!

Ramadan Day 24

Oh I'm too tired today, but I shouldn't complain 'cause the Ramadan has been amazing, masha'Allah.

I think my tiredness started when I saw how much I have to study till Monday - where the lessons at my University start again! Whew, suddenly I realized that I can't just continue learning new duaa's, offering salat, studying Islam every day as i did this Ramadan... But insha'Allah I'll find time for it this semester aswell. I'm glad that I'm going to attend lessons every Sunday to learn reading the Qur'an, 'cause then I learn something more from Islam at least every week, if you know what I mean :-) I love educating myself in Islam, Alhamdulillah. My husband is gone till Sunday, which happens very seldom - it's fun to have the apartment for myself. But actually I invided my lil sister over for tonight. I have food left from Iftar, which I want to share with her - although she's actually not a Muslima. Insha'Allah...

I'm going to the library aswell to pick up a book about crochet. I did some crochet last year (and when I was a kid I learned it from my grand-grand mother!) and would love to create something for the apartment. Something useful - and not just little stuffed animals like the ones below (althought they're cute!).

<-- This was my first try...since the early 90's!

And that one --> was the 2nd try, which made me feel a bit sorry for the 1st one, since everybody thinks the 2nd one is cuter. Hehe. This crochet-style is called Amiurumi by the way.