Be happy

Lifestyle change - Life change? Style change?

Since 2007 I am wearing Abaya and I love my Abayat, they feel and look like ME!

But still I felt like it was time for some change, nothing major but still something fresh.

So here is my new style:

A long blouse combined with straight leg pants...

I think it's very elegant while still being practical for my actual lifestyle as I can nurse in it and I don't step on it like I do on my Abayat.

I'm loving it so far!

Lost and found - or have I never been lost?

Last time I wrote here, almost two years ago, I said that I had lost myself.. 

And tough I felt that way at that time I think I was wrong...

I wasn't list, maybe I just had changed so fast and so dramatically that I couldn't catch up with myself...

Maybe the ME hadn't changed but the life around it had changed...

Now I will be 30 next year, I have a wonderful husband and two lovely boys, I am a Stay-at-home-mom. That's a long way full of changes that I have come since I started to write here!

But the ME is still the same, loves the same things like before and just added on to it...

So I think I haven't lost myself, rather have I grown and added and changed my ME.

Peace

My husband told me that i am a gentle mom.
Thats probably the biggest compliment he could have given me as a mother.
I want my son to remember his childhood with me full of peace and gentleness. Full of guidance and support. I want my husband to find peace with my. But to be able to nourish my both boys the way i want, to give them the love and peace i wish for them, i need to find peace in me, peace in my life. I need to nurture my self to create a surplus of peace in me so that i can be able to give and share with my loved ones. Peace and contentment is what my heart is asking for.
May Allah pour his peace over my heart and let me find rest in myself.
May Allah let me allow myself to be content, to be rested, to be happy. I want to fill my days with the things that increase my peace and empty them of anything that tries to take that peace from me.
Ya Allah please let me be successful in my quest of peace, contentment, satisfaction and ultimately happiness so that i can be the best mother for my son and the best wife for my husband by being my best self. Ameen.

I am back in my jeans...

MAVI Sophie straight-leg mid-rise 27/30,
welcome back in my live and on my legs,
I have missed you a lot during the past months!

Fit and Food - 30.January

Food:
Breakfast: bread with butter and nutella, green tea, jogurt, one grapefruit.
Lunch: Omelette with leek, zuccini and tomato
Dinner: Garlic bread (oven)

Workout:
Pilates - standing pilates
Pilates - core workout
Pilates - whole body workout
Pilates - for flexibility
That makes 40 minutes of excercise!

Fit and Food - 29.January

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with nutella and butter, green tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with Pesto and cream cheese.
Dinner: Oranges

Workout:
I didn't do any of my videos but i walked 4km while going grocery shopping.

Fit and Food - 28.January

Food:
Breakfast: toast with nutella and butter, green tea and one activia jogurt.
Lunch: Spaghetti with tomato sauce, an apple.
Dinner: green salad and one steak.

Workout break

Fit and Food - 27.January

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with butter and nutella, green tea, one grapefruit.
Lunch: cauliflower, potato and sauce hollandaise. one apple.
Dinner: herbal butter bread (oven)

Workout:
pilates - standing pilates
pilates - whole body workout
pilates - stretching
makes 30 minutes of workout.

Fit and Food - 26.January

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with butter and nutella, green tea and one grapefruit.
Lunch: coffe with milk, cookies and two apples.
Dinner: herbal butter bread (from the oven), tomato salad and a banana peanut butter milkshake.

Workout:
Pilates - standing pilates
Pilates - core workout
Pilates - whole body workout
Pilates - stretching
Prenatal Yoga

That makes 40 minutes of workout and 25 minutes relaxation!

Fit and Food - 25.January

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with butter and nutella, green tea.
Lunch: smashed potatoes with brown onions and fish filet (Fischstäbchen)
Dinner: one orange and water

Workout:
aerobic warm-up
new pilates video which i didn't like
pregnancy yoga
that makes 30 minutes workout and 25 minutes relaxation.

Fit and Food - 24.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with butter, nutella, jam and honey. Green tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese again.
Dinner: salad, two eggs, 2 oranges, one banana-peanut butter milkshake.


Workout:
aerobic warm up
pilates core workout
pilates total body workout
pilates stretching

that makes 36 minutes of workout.

Fit and Food - 23.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with nutella, honey, butter and jam. Green tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with tomato sauca and cheese.
Dinner: three oranges and one banana.

Because i sleep so long these days, my breakfast and my luch are really late too. Therefore when it comes to dinner i don't feel really hungry..


Excercise:

aerobic warm up,
pilates (standing pilates),
pilates (stretching),
in the evening pregnancy yoga.

That makes all in all 26 minutes work out and 25 minutes relaxation.

Fit and Food - 22.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with butter and avocado, green tea
Lunch: broccoli, potato and sauce hollandaise

Dinner: tomato salad, two boiled eggs and a banana milkshake

Excercise:
aerobic warmup, pilates stretching, yoga relax (before sleeping)
thats 16 minutes workout and 25 minutes relaxing.

Fit and Food - 21.January

Exercising during pregnancy is extremely benefitial for the mothers health, for the baby's health, to make labor easier and to enable a natural and fast birth.
Knowing that i surfed the internet and found some youtube videos with exercise routines specially for pregnant ladies.
I have 3 routines:
- aerobic: warm up, different strenght workouts, stretching
- pilates: four different workouts, last being a stretching one
- yoga: relaxing and breathing techniques to relax mother and baby and prepare for labor

My big pregnancy-plan is to take time to eat healthy and to exercise every day.
To see how successful i am in realising that plan ill write it down day by day, hopefully.

Saturday, 21. January:

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with butter, honey and jam. Green Tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with a sauce of pesto and cream cheese.
Dinner: Vietnamese raw springrolls:

take rice paper

Make a sauce from fish sauce, water, garlic, spring onions, carrot and a hint of sugar.

Cut salad, spring onions, cucumber, carrots and grilled beef.

Fill the rice paper, roll it into a roll, dip it in the sauce and ENJOY!

I really loved it soo much!!!


Excercise:

It seems i am really unfit at the moment which made me actually quite sad.
I did my aerobic warm up which lasts only 6 minutes and that was really hard hehehehe! So hard that after that I went directly to aerobic stretching and that was it for the day.
But before going to bed i did the Yoga excercise which is really nice and relaxing, loved it!

So that was the day, lets see how the other days will go...

ages ago...

long long time ago there used to be a girl who was very active on her blog and her husband (fiancé back then) was very happy to check her updates almost every day...
then many new things happened in her life and she was busy with other things rather than updating her blog.
But alhamdoulilah she has returned, at least for now ;)

So, many things happened during the last months:
i moved to istanbul as you all know, and after i felt really boring in the first six weeks i started to learn turkish. so for the last four months i had daily 4 hours class and that kept me really busy!

For christmas i went to germany for 5 days, after that my mother came to visit me with her husband in istanbul for one week and than i bekame really sick right after that..

what are my plans now?
well i am 16 weeks pregnant al hamdoulilah and because the courses made me really tired and exhausted we decided to take a break. So i plan to stay home, relax, meet my friends and do some nice things.
on one side i am looking forward to that but at the same time i am afraid i will feel as horrible as before my turkish course...
but we will se how it goes and if i feel bad i can always go back to my classes... inshallah kheir!

so inshallah i will keep bombarding you with new posts...

The House Café in Ortaköy

Yesterday was my first day out alone. I went out with my cousine and some of her friends. We met in besiktas and then took the bus to ortaköy were she had found a very very lovely place to have breakfast at. All the staff had excellent english skills, maybe 90% of the guests were tourists and the food was really expensive. But the location was absolutely amazing and the food was really really good!!!

I would love to come back to that place again!!!

After spending about three hours at The House Café we went to kadiköy to spend the rest of the afternoon there at it was all in all a very lovely day!

Istanbul

Well, after having blocked my blog for quite sometime i finally opened it again, hoping this would encourage me to be more activ..

I am living in Istanbul for more than three weeks and have been doing nothing much.. it seems i am still figuring out what to do with my time and how to invest it in the most pleasant and beneficial way possible.

The only thing i really know now is, that i want to use the time here to discover the city as much as i can. We do not know how long we will stay here so i decided it would be best to discover as much as i can.
One of my many lovely cousins is staying in istanbul as well, doing an internship until the end of september so i hope to see her as often as i can.

Inshallah i can report my adventures here and tell you about whats going on with me.

Until then i shall say ma salamah

France please let me love you – part 6

no comment needed I guess... just AMAZING!

youtube... a new generation of women?

i really like to watch makeup tutorials and follow certain ladies on their youtube channels..
at the beginning it was more about giving tutorials, showing how to achieve a certain look and so on.
But with time some ladies started to show us their life, to talk about what they love and like, what they buy and use, what they think about their life, what they see as their role and place in their life!

mostly those are rich ladies, stay at home moms who enjoy makeup and luxury and who love to talk about that..
they do swaps of products with their youtube friends, talk about the lates products, send gifts to other girls, exchange a new lipstick thao might not be available somewere else, review products so that others can go get the product or safe the money by not getting a product that is not worth the money..
so somehow it seems like a new generation of women appeared, ladies that can afford a certain lifestyle and who enjoy sharing their makeup passion. Ladies who do what they do, simple because they can! it doesnt mean that those ladies dont do something other than makeup, doesnt mean that they dont know the real sense of life, it's just that they have a certain love for makeup or fashion, that they can afford their passion and that they are not affraid to show off and to talk about what they do and like.

as always, showing of with what you have blessed with will create jealousy amongst people.. and thats exactly what happened the last couple of weeks with one of my favorite youtube ladies..