Alhamdulilah! We have finally had our first snow and was it a big one!

I must first say, my lil guy AB said it snowed so much because he made du'a for lots of snow,masha Allah. He is my lil du'a maker,Alhamdulilah!

We have 20 inches of snow outside of our house right now! The wind was treacherous,so kids had to wait to go out and play. We did watch abi "dig" us out!

This is a short video of what we saw once we opened the door! Zawj didn't know where to start it was so overwhelming!



I have always loved the snow, growing up we did everything in the snow. We built igloos,went sledding,had snowball fights. This is something I had wanted my children to have a love for,and masha Allah they do. I think all children love snow,don't you?

Here is a slideshow of pics we took:


We decided to do a little winter snow day crafting!


we made some winter scenes with handprint trees!

This is my 3 yr olds tree, he used confetti snowflakes and cotton!

My 5 yr old added an igloo~!

My 7 yr old added cotton for snow!


My 20 month old even participated! What a great keepsake!

Simple, but fun craft for all ages,masha Allah.


I hope all my sisters are keeping warm and enjoying the winter season and all that Allah has blessed us with!

We have continued our Pillars of Islam study, and the littles ( my younger children)  sure love it.

We all know our children love visual learning aids, well at least mine do *smile*

I decided to craft up a mobile for the Pillars of Islam.

My first go with the mobile is actually good for a wall hanging mobile. Here is a pic of that:



Here are pics of the mobile that is suspended from the ceiling:


The entire mobile
The pillars up close
1st Pillar close up

2nd Pillar up close

3rd pillar up close




4th pillar up close

5th pillar up close


entire mobile up a little closer

Things we used to make this mobile were simple.

• wooden dowels, but tree twigs would work just as well
• curly ribbon or any kind of string you choose to suspend the pieces
• paper towel rolls, or you can just roll each pillar in the file
• cardboard for more sturdy parts, we use cereal boxes which are great for durablity and easy to cut
• crayons or markers to color
• hot glue gun to glue dowels together

File for this mobile: Pillars Mobile

Hope to see your mobiles soon,insha Allah