**in a dressing room with my 5 year old son ***
Him: “mama, why is your tummy SO big? Are you having a baby?”
Me: “I keep it big in case I need to put you back in there for a time out”
Other dressing rooms: ~*giggles hysterically*~
men think women’s greatest fear is ending up alone. No. There’s nothing scarier than ending up trapped, married to a man who drains your energy, steals your labor, dims your ambition, and calls it love.
Please raise your daughters to have hobbies, interests, and academics...so when they become adults and middle-aged women they have something to talk about besides a man.
I LOVE polite people so much. Soft spoken, heavy on please and thank you and just gentle with how they interact with the world. My favorite type of people.
Life is teaching me the law of detachment. enjoy people, moments and blessings while they’re yours but don’t lose yourself trying to make anything stay forever.
girl to girl: sometimes you’ll find an old picture of yourself and suddenly realize you were actually beautiful during a time when you spent so much energy criticizing yourself.
YOU HAVE NOOOOO IDEA what Allah can bring into your life nexttttttttt. A conversation. An opportunity. A new person. A sudden opening. Something you never planned for could become the reason you say ALHAMDULILLAH a hundred times. STAY HOPEFUL.
You are allowed to experience joy while things in your life are unresolved. If you postpone happiness until everything is perfect, you’ll be postponing it forever.