Three days in, and we are slowly falling into our “ramadhan routine”

There has been crafting…masha’allah the children are decorating the windows that face out onto the street with sun catchers, Islamic style….they ll drifted out yesterday afternoon to take a look at their handiwork

there has been the all important qur’an reading in the early hours, and all the children are actually finding the NO t.v rule easier to live with than they thought they would..the youngest are making good use of islamic cartoons on Islamic tube masha’allah

we’ve cooked of course, but moderately..I think…with a large family you tend to spend alot of time preparing meals anyway, especially cooking from scratch so it’s hard no to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen, ramadhan or not….but the children have been thoroughly relishing their homemade bread and shorba….

i think the thing the children are finding hardest is waking up for suhoor….so many sleepy faces at the breakfast table..ya’allah!! but alhamdulillah they’re managing well so far….

there has been little time though to catch up with what others have been doing and even less time to come here and post which is why I’m snatching time now….I’ll leave you with some pictures of what’s been going on for the past couple of days insha’allah

the beginnings of our ramadhan calender….

isn’t it amazing how you can go from this….

to this…..

to this beauty….

and dd8 started a ramdhan stitching yesterday too masha’allah…so in amongst the sleepiness and settling into a new routine, some effort has been made and some challenges have been met..we haven’t done so well on the home-ed front, but if I’ve learnt anything as a home-edder, it’s to take homeschool life as it comes and to adapt to the changes taking place..and sometimes it’s about kicking back and just lving with the new rythmn for a while