Awaiting the arrival of a baby is an exciting journey. Everyone can’t wait to meet the little one! However, the excitement of a new baby can take away from the attention a new mama needs as well. Make a postpartum kit for them with all their vaginal essentials. It makes for a unique and super useful baby shower gift amidst […]
DIY Postpartum Kits
How to be helpful to new moms
Its hard to ask for help when you have a newborn. There’s just too much happening. Your vagina is on fire, your nipples are more cracked than the plains of Africa, and your baby — oh yeah, your baby. I was blessed to have had a great support system around me postpartum. So today, I want to share with you […]
5 Montessori teachings I implement at home
I first heard about Montessori education through the Hapa Family, a YouTube channel that focuses on tips to create a Montessori environment in the home. It emphasizes independence in children by giving them a well prepared space to do so. Montessori education is self directed which allows for your child to do their own thing while you merely support them. […]
Why I buy second hand clothes
Ever since I was in university, I have decluttered my closet twice a year. Once in late spring and then again in the fall, when I took my seasonal clothes out of storage. And every season, I would fill up at least one large bag of clothes for donation. Some of these clothes still had tags on it while others […]
Yusra’s Nursery Tour
When we first moved in to our condo, I was 7 months pregnant. After a nerve wracking first and second trimester and two pregnancy losses later, I felt like it was finally time to start thinking about the nursery and the room that would belong to my future baby girl. The room that was conveniently pink. A shade of pink […]
Meet my plants!
I am a plant mom. It was over 2 years since I became a mom of one, and now have a total of 13 plants in my home. These are not counting the ones that have tragically passed during my journey of finding my green thumb. I love the look of plants in a home. It instantly brightens up a […]
5 Ways To Keep Tidy With a Baby
When they’re newborns, its the laundry. Then it’s you. Your hair is unwashed, your dishes are piled up. As months pass by, it becomes the food, the toys, the random spoons they can’t seem to part with until you find them forgotten all throughout the house. And of course – more laundry. Babies are messy. But that doesn’t mean you […]
Yusra Turns ONE!
I still remember my eggs being too salty for breakfast the morning I was induced. It’s unbelievable how quickly the past year has gone by. The first six months were rough. Learning how to breastfeed, battling the isolation and loneliness that comes with being a first time mom, and the constant struggle of figuring how to do stuff with the […]
How COVID-19 helped my marriage
No one ever talks about the resentment new moms feel towards their partners when raising a baby. Almost everyday before Imad started working from home, I hated him. I hated how he got to sleep peacefully while I had to get up numerous times during the night to breastfeed. I hated how he got to commute to work and be […]