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Zaydaan’s Birthday Celebration with Split Second Science

Kids wait all year for their birthdays to roll in and look forward to a little bit of fussing and some sort of celebration to…

For a long list of reasons, I always longed for a daughter. Among this long list of reasons – between longing for…

I can hardly believe it’s been 16 years since you were born…since I first became a mom…since I held you in…

NAME : MOHAMMED QIRAAN LANGUAGE: ARABIC MEANING : UNITED/UNITY/TOGETHER I was an Aunt for a good six years before I became a mom, and in a…

Hear, hear – My favourite season of the year has arrived; and this year it actually looks and feels like a proper…

Eid has come and gone, and just over a week later it seems like we’re getting sucked back into the humdrum of our…

Hey Zee, I can’t believe you’re turning 9 today. Nine whole, frigging years! That’s nine years of me loving you, and nine years…

It’s been forever and a minute, hasn’t it – and for a change I can’t blame the rapid race against time for…

I can hardly believe it’s been almost a month since the arrival of our newest little member to the family! Welcoming a little one can…

Even though I’m your older sibling; I don’t have any recollection of the day you were born. The best memories of that…

I thought I still had time to write this post before the baby decides to make his entrance, but my new…