Jeddah Mom
Motherhood and Expat life in Saudi Arabia
Inside: If you are looking for legit work at home jobs for stay at home moms, here are 35 ideas plus a few sites where you can start selling your work. A question I hear from mothers quite often: I am so well educated but this mothering thing has me house bound. I feel like …
As the year draws to a close, I am looking back at the best of Jeddah Mom 2017. Do you know what were the most loved posts from this year? I have been pretty amused by how much we all love Jeddah and kids! 🙂
I have been asked about my blogging story for so long and now that I am switching to Jeddah Mom, I think it is the perfect time to tell you all how I stepped into this field. My Blogging Story 13 years ago, I was sitting at the breakfast table on a Sunday, reading the …
As I write my May monthly goals, I should tell you what happened in April because these goals posts are when I talk about the behind the scenes here in my life. April was a very busy month for me. I am still recovering from the load actually. I was very busy with my kids …
How can work-at-home moms find balance? Is it possible to find time to work from home? I have been doing this for over a decade. Here is how I find time through the day to work from home. Even on a bad day, I find atleast 2hrs to work from home. Here’s how. I recently …
Dear March, Can we slow down a bit? March is already here and time to talk about goals and accountability… So… How was your February? Did one more day do you any good? Me..? Yes. In fact I am so glad there was another day because I had signed up to kick start the Craft …
It is Monday and time to link up all the fun places I have been this past week. On Life Your Way was the perfect article which I really wish I had read the first time I used my DSLR. Krystal of Krystal Griffin Photography, lists 8 things she had wished she knew. OH! I …
Have you noticed? You typed ‘wordsneedles.blogspot.com‘ but were redirected to ‘wordsnneedles.com‘? Yep, this blog(ger) now has a permenant address of her own… It has been ten+ years of blogging now and it is about time. Ofcourse there will be new and more changes ahead… Stay tuned.
I made a header!! Yay! Finally. I have been making changes to my blog for the past couple of months. It is going to be an on going process! It has been 10yrs since I started to blog and in October this year, I will be completing those ten years, InshaAllah (God Willing). The fun …
Spring Cleaning is not going as planned. *sigh* I have taken ill. On Saturday, I had to be taken to the ER with serious chest pain. I am still having breathlessness and we are still making the doctors rounds. It isn’t clear what is wrong with me so… until I get well… there isn’t going …
If there was a blog conference here, I wouldn’t go.If it was in India, I would. If it was anywhere else…I would.
credits Is it just me or do you need to have the perfect settings to blog? Years ago, when I started to blog, words just wouldn’t come when I sat down to type… so I’d pull out my pen and pad and the write. Then I came across wbloggar. It was a platform to blog …
I think… I am having Facebook Withdrawal Symptoms(FbWS). FbWS is a lot like Caffeine Withdrawal except in FbWS you get the constant itch to go back and reacivate your account. Here are the symptoms: Depression. It is so blue in my part of the world. Excessive sleepiness. If you have nothing to do… Sleep. Lethargy …
As you can see… I haven’t been doing much blogging except changing my template around too too many times. 🙂 It is all about being bored and not having much to come online about. 🙂 Well… what do you think? There is still a lot that I will be changing but… well… what do you …
If I ever die, it will be of boredom. At any given time, I need to be crazy about three things: A book, a person and a hobby. If any one is missing, I am depressed. The promise was that we will always understand. No matter what life throws our way, we will always understand. …
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!my template… what is wrong with it? Oh dear… I’ll need a new template now. This one looks so shabby! Sigh.
And… the template is being updated. I have added a couple of new links… and I am still adding. Do check…:) And… I have added the ‘Dua’ too. Should I add the arabic too or is the translation enough…? Let me know.
Finally, I have a three column template! No, I did not waste my day trying to tweak it. I never repeat a mistake (atleast, I try not to) and so, all thanks to a passerby, who left me a link to some blogs, I landed myself here and then here and then here to finally …
