The never ending rat race

Sometimes life just feels like a rat race, with everyone always in a hurry to get somewhere or to do something. This weekend was a perfect expample of this rat race, it started on Friday evening and only now have I had two moments to sit down and prepare for my upcoming Umrah trip. We had family and friends visiting all week and I love socialising and interacting with people and really enjoyed the weekend. The only thing that I think about how quickly the weeks, months and years are passing by. Everday passes by in such a blur that in a few years I'll look back and think "where did it go?"

I think it's so important that every once in a while, say every two weeks, to sit down and look back at the past weeks and what you have achieved. It would also be beneficial to set yourself personal goals and deadlines for the upcoming weeks in order to make sure you maximise your time in an efficient way. For me my goals are firstly to understand my deen more and to make a conscious effort to learn about Islam, the prophet Muhammad PBUH and His family. My second goal is to work on my event management business and successfully complete my first big project, I have many more smaller goals such as become a good cook, to pass my upcoming ACCA exams and to complete my Hijama course. 

I'm hoping I'll be able to fulfill these goals in the next 3 to 6 months and go to 'infinity and beyond!'
What are your goals???



Just a side note, Mr M and I visited The Grand Designs Show at the Excel Centre in London, Mr M was reluctant to go but I really wanted to go so he followed dragging his feet behind him. The event was brilliant with so mant retailers and suppliers show casing their ideas and inventions for the home and garden. Surprinsingly Mr M also enjoyed himself and even purchased a hand whisk and an ironing board cover- well for me :)

If you get a chance next year (the last day for this year was today) do check it out, you might get some fascinating ideas and even save some money. If you go ready to buy you really can bargain and get alot of the stuff on extremely good prices especially the display pieces which are still in very good conditon.

Mr M and myself have figured when we have saved around £50,000 we will go back and furnish our house and garden. No harm in dreaming :)

Any advice?

Inshallah Mr & Mrs M senior and Mr & Mrs M Junior II (thats us) will be going for Umrah on the 12th May. This will be the first time for all of us except Mrs M senior who has already been on Hajj. I'm super excited about our trip and have already started packing, I'm so paranoid I'll forget something essential like Mr M's Ihram or our passports so I've got little checklists posted on the walls around the room of things that need to be packed and done in preparation for my trip too.

I want to take this chance to ask all of you out there to forgive me if I have ever hurt or caused you pain in any way, and if I owe anything to any of you please also come forward ( don't all rush at once now!)

Also if any of you have any sort of useful advice about Umrah, what to take or what to do when I am out there then please do let me know.

Exciting!!!!!!!!!

Endless possibilities :)

So this morning I was dropping Mr M to the station and our conversation went something like this;

Mrs M- do you have your wallet?
Mr M- Check
Mrs M- train pass?
Mr M- Check
Mrs M- Phone?
Mr M- D'oh!!!!

This is a usual occurence for Mr M, sometimes its his train pass and sometimes his phone. So being the lovely wife I am I let Mr M take my phone to work today which means I have Mr M's phone today :) Oh the possibilities of things I could get upto today, going through his text messages, his whats app messages, fraping him, using up all his free minutes or even prank calling all the people in his phonebook who I don't know :)

But NO I will be good and avoid the temptation of being childish and instead will focus my energy on my upcoming spiritual trip.