The course started in January 2009 and the duration is until June 2010 but it is available online and you may want to contact them about it anyway, InshaALLAH. It is available via Paltalk. MashaALLAH I was able to attend a course for Al Maghrib Institute after my c-section last year via their program and generosity.
Since the beginning of December, I have been slowly clearing out some clutter – especially homeschool stuff. The inspiration comes from setting up the workboxes. Since I can now use materials that we never seemed to have time for in the past, I need to weed out the junk and get to the good stuff.
I also realize the need to stop jumping in and trying to get involved in too many projects – you should see the pile of worksheets that I have accumulated over the last three years!
Anyway, that got me thinking about the rest of the home. It seems that I am always cleaning the same kinds of messes around here, toys on the floor, crayons, socks, etc. I need to find better solutions so that they mostly don’t end up on the floor in the first place.
My mom is a super neat person and I always thought that once I got away from home, I wouldn’t have to worry about cleaning all the time because it came naturally to us, but try as I might, I cannot even compete with hers. LOL my husband affectionately calls it “the museum look.”
I’ve been reading through the Flylady site and learning how to better organize a household. I’m trying to rid myself of what she calls “CHAOS: Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome.” My husband and children are social creatures so you never know when I’ll get a visitor.
She says the first thing to do is “shine your sink” so that’s what I did.
See? Shiny.
Our dishwasher died about three months ago and now I am reluctantly stuck at the sink everyday. Rather than continue to feel annoyed, I’m just trying to stick to a routine and InshaALLAH, after a while, it will feel like second nature.
How do you all find the time to manage the household? Do you have a menu planned for the week? For the month? Do you keep a binder? Here’s another question – do you organize or keep a binder or something else for your own personal Islamic studies? Do you have a daily routine for studying your deen? All of these are things that I need to work on, InshaALLAH.
And now, to tackle the rest of that counter, lol.
This is a nice site, MashaALLAH! She’s crafty like I think I am inside my head. 🙂
Remember when the mail was full of letters from the people that you cared about instead of just bills and junk? These days, we send emails and talk on the phone and chat but we don’t write real letters.
When I lived in Germany,(between 7 and 10), a friend of mine had a penpal from ALLAH knows where, and she used to show me her postcards and letters and I thought it was such a neat idea!
When I came back to the States, (Virginia), my cousin and I wrote to each other for years and it was nice to keep in touch that way because phone calls to Texas were expensive.
My daughter is six and I would like for her to continue developing her writing skills. She is very social and I think that she would enjoy meeting Muslim children who live outside of her community. She has already handwritten about six letters to her cousin and is using all of my envelopes so why not? LOL.
If you are interested, Email me at themuslimhomeschooler@gmail.com and we can exchange addresses. If your children can write to her in Arabic, that would be fine also. I think this would be great for our social studies and geography adventures, (we can put them on the map!) and a way to forge a lifetime of friendships, InshaALLAH.
Wherever in the world, (or GTA for that matter),you may be, we look forward to hearing from you, InshaALLAH.
This is a list of country names in Arabic and English.
By the way, I have a lot of stuff in my drafts that I am just now posting, that’s why there are so many posts today.
Blog at AbdurRahman has a Rewards for Dhikr Chart. InshaALLAH it is beneficial to you and they are rewarded by ALLAH every time we use it, so check it out if you don’t have it.
I just found these today and I can’t give an opinion on them. It looks like some of them are free and the others have free trials. Take a look, InshaALLAH.
Tajweed in English there’s a tajweed podcast here.
Bayyinah – my husband recommends this one, he’s met one of the brothers behind it.
E-Aalim: has Qur’an and Arabic courses. The Qur’an course runs from March 20-June 5 and it’ll cost you about $300 (149 British Pounds).
Al Quran Academy offers courses that are broken down into 30 minute lessons:
5 days/30 mins $80 a month
3 days/ $50
2 days – weekdays $35
2 days – weekends $30
Go to About Tajweed.
