Muslim Mama has tagged me! …ok here goes—
Seven things I plan to do (insha’Allah) before I die:
1.Hajj
2.Buy a house inshaAllah (with an ISLAMIC LOAN!)
3.Get old inshaAllah
4.Raise my children to be good Muslims and to be productive members of their community (no matter where they end up)
5.Get rid of all my junk!
6.Become a better person in every way
7.Stop biting my nails
Seven things I can do:
1.Yell pretty loudly when I’m angry
2.Spey a cat in 7 minutes
3.Make a great sticky date pudding
4.Sleep as soon as my head hits the pillow
5.Multitask (I’m a woman – it’s in our nature!)
6.Read my son’s mind (well..most of the time)
7.Eat icecream nonstop
Seven things I can’t do:
1.Stop biting my nails
2.Change the oil in my car
3.Clean wounds with maggots in them without gagging
4.Forgive or forget easily (yep, have to work on this one)
5.Controlled crying (never never again)
6.Walk past a spider without getting chills
7.Push-ups
Seven things I say most often:
1.Allah!
2.This is your first and only warning!
3.Zakaria….
4.MashaAllah
5.I’m *not* in a bad mood
6.Jazakallah
7. I love you
Seven people I want to do this:
1.Umm Hamza (Aussie)
2.Umm Hamza(US)
3.Iman
I think everyone else has had a go already, haven’t they?
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oooooo! OK… gonna give it a think …
That was nice!Ramadhan mubarak!
assalamu alaikum Tasmiya
Apologies for taking so long to get to this.
I’m hopeless thinking up stuff like this so I hope you don’t mind if I get some inspiration from yours.
Seven things I plan to do (insha’Allah) before I die: (apart from Hajj)
1. Get rid of all my possessions except that which is needed immediately
2. Spend Ramadan in Madinah
3. Get. Organised.
4. Die (it’s a sufi thing)
5. Get my kids educated
6. Get myself educated
7. Set up some sadaqah jaariahs
Seven things I can do:
1. Make a delish vanilla cheesecake
2. Occupy kids
3. Run on empty
4. Crochet
5. Spread out a task to fill all the time available
6. Find objects misplaced by hubby – keys etc
7. Know instinctively when the kids are up to something
Seven things I can’t do:
1. Leave my kids with a babysitter/childcare etc
2. Resist my son’s post-naughtiness smile
3. Make Turkish chewy icecream (although I haven’t given up yet!)
4. Lie
5. Speak Punjabi (I’ve given this up)
6. Bear mainstream media
7. Swim
Seven things I say most often:
1. Great.
2. Let’s see if you can pack up/get dressed/etc by the time I count to … One… Two…
3. Which dua do we read before we …?
4. Turkish equivalent of “my darling baby boy” (he’s almost three but still… lol)
5. Various nicknames of the kids
6. Hmm, that’s interesting
7. ??
Seven people I want to do this:
Um Ibrahim – http://umibrahim.tripod.com/Blog/
Walaikum asalaam,
Now, you have to give me the recipe for chewy icecream – I’ve never heard of it before.
Thanks for this. I see from the things you say most often, you’re a much more positive person than I am
Aha, that’s because you can’t read the sarcasm in ‘great.’ lol
Do you know how to make ordinary icecream?
Anyway, here is the recipe for Chewy Ice-cream:
Serves 4
900ml full-fat milk
300ml double cream
225g sugar
3 tblspns ground salep (it’s a type of orchid root – cornflour or arrowroot can be used instead)
1 piece of mastika, crushed with a little sugar
[mastika is the gummy resin from the acacia tree - you can get it from turkish and middle eastern stores, sometimes in the form of crystals]
In a bowl, slake the salep with a little of the milk. Put the rest of the milk into a saucepan with the cream and sugar. Bring it to the boil, stirring all the time. Reduce the heat, stir a few spoonfuls of the hot liquid into the slaked salep, then add it slowly to the pan, stirring all the time until smooth. Beat in the mastika and simmer gently for 10-15 minutes.
Pour the liquid into a bowl or freezer tray, cover with a dry towel and leave to cool. Remove the towel, cover the bowl with foil and place in the freezer. Leave to set, beating at intervals to disperse the ice crystals. Before serving, place it in the fridge for 10-15 minutes. Beware – this ice-cream melts quickly.