After almost 3 years of being in Houston, I think I've finally figured out what my hair needs in this humidity. A lot of you ask me how I do my hair and what products I'm currently using so I've detailed it all here.
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Ramadan starts in a couple days! Every year Ramadan comes around, it feels like Eid was just yesterday. Although Zidaan is only 15 months old and won't remember much of anything till he's about 4, I want to start creating memories I can capture for him during Ramadan to show him when he's older. Ramadan was always special in our house growing up.
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I have had a lot of people ask me to write about this. This is quite a personal topic so I've hesitated for a while. Judgements on decisions like these are plentiful, but alas, here are my honest thoughts.
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Since I'm about 3 months behind on posting an update of what Zidaan has been up to, here's a quick catch up.
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To celebrate Zidaan's first Eid, we decided to take him back home to Michigan so I could spend it with my family. My parents were ecstatic! The look on my nani's face when she first met Z was priceless.
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You could easily say she has been *patiently* waiting for her acceptance letter from Hogwarts from the time she turned 10? Since a wizard path is not likely in her future, why not do the next best thing and bring Hogwarts to her with an adorable Potter themed baby showe
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As I'm getting closer to the end of my pregnancy and finally feeling some of the pains of carrying another life for over 8 months now - I thought I would add a little humor in my long days of getting internally kicked around by a 5 lb chunker by writing this blog
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Not sure if this is just me or lots of other pregnant women, but I've recently noticed I spend much of my day having conversations with myself in my head. Yep, with MYSELF. Aka talking to myself. Asking ridiculous questions.
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Not sure how this is reality, but I have just about 9 weeks to go till the baby is here. Nine weeks. Single digits, people.
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Three things: a Dr. Seuss children's book, laughs with family and friends and amazing seafood pasta. That is what this Sunday was all about. I was thrown the most beautiful baby shower to celebrate my baby boy by my sister and mother in law.
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Happy Black Friday loves! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and is ready to work off all the food today with some holiday shopping! I've put together a quick list of all the stores I will be checking out today (including online boutiques)
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When you're pregnant, getting dressed every morning can be a major challenge. Even for the trendiest mom to be, the struggle is quite real when your body changes so frequently. I had to get used to not knowing what clothes in my closet would fit me day to day.
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I had the busiest weekend running around with my parents in town. Since we're all high strung on baby fever, we took my mom and mother in law to Babies R Us to show them what we had put on the registry and I can't put into words how excited and giddy those two were. My mom wanted to buy everything off the rack that screamed cute (which was LITERALLY EVERYTHING).
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For those that know me, I LOVE Halloween. It may just be my favorite holiday. It was no surprise I was going to go all out and get creative with costumes this year.
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From the moment I found out I was expecting to being 23 weeks today – my pregnancy has been a whirlwind of emotions and surprises. Nowadays, we have movies, our mothers, books and the media telling us what our pregnancy should feel like/ will feel like.
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Your 20s are special and the people you spend them with are even more special. Crazy to think how many people important to me are on their way to engagements, big gigs and babies!
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I was back in the wonderful city of Chicago for the weekend and wanted to bask in everything Fall (cause everyone knows, there's no proper fall in Houston).
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