Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day

My mom and me with the beautiful lantern my husband bought for  our home!

Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of the month of May, but as Khalid's dad always says, "In Islam, Mother's Day is EVERYDAY!" Isn't that beautiful? The status of women in Islam is amazing! 

"When she is a daughter, she opens a door of Jannah for her father. When she is a wife, she completes half of the Deen of her husband. When she is a mother, Jannah lies under her feet... If everyone knew the true status of a Muslim woman in Islam, even the men would want to be women." ~Shiekh Akram Nadawi

 This Mother's Day we had the family to our apartment and we had a nice day spending time together. I made a homemade Angel Food Cake that I iced with fat-free yogurt (this is my FAVORITE dessert)! It was delicious and was gone by the end of the night. I also made peanut butter cookies and decorated them to look like sunflowers and cupcakes with homemade chocolate-peanut butter icing, topped with smarties! Then mom opened the gifts we gave her. We gave her a frame with a picture of mom and I put in it and a box of white chocolates (because she can not have chocolate unless it is white) and I card. She loved the gifts, especially her card. Mashallah, she was all smiles!

After some goodies, we all played Skip-Bo (a card game). It is a great family game. I used to be the Queen of Skip-Bo but my mom, has definitely earned that title! She won all the games so far! I have to say she is really good at card games, Mashallah.  

Some of the chocolate-peanut butter cupcakes! Yummy!

Mom's slice of cake with one peanut butter sunflower cookies.

Khalid and I with our beautiful Indian hand crafted lantern,
purchased from Winners.

We planned to go see "The Five Year Engagement" at the movie theatre after eating out at a restaurant. But because my little brother was sleepy and was sleeping during all the card game excitement, we had a hard time waking him up to go to dinner. I have a Muslim doll named Amina that I got from a wonderful website muslimbase.com (I will do a post  on this fabulous website and the products I have ordered later.) and I used her to wake him up. She sings many songs and the repeating songs, eventually, woke him up.

Since we missed the movie we decided to drive around for a awhile and then order Chinese food to take back home. We had a good time listening to music and talking and laughing with each other. After we returned home we had our dinner together and I pack left over food and goodies for the family to take back home with them.

We had a great Mother's Day spending time together. It is great that there is a defined day for moms, but we should remember that every day is Mother's Day. They brought us into this world and raised us. They should always be treated with the kindness and respect they deserve. I look forward to having children someday, Inshallah and I hope that I can be mommy that they can look up to, be proud of, love and share their thoughts, fears and joys with.

Happy Mother's Day everybody!
How did you   spend your Mother's Day?