Good news??

Im welcoming it with open arms I can tell you that!! Ive been offered a new job alhamdulillah. It is the job I told you about in this previous blog, apparently the guy who was originally hired pulled out last minute. The supervisor sent me an email to give him a call this morning and at 1530 today I was officially offered the position. I was sooo excited, I got on the phone straight away to hubby who is very excited for me too. Its a good move for me work wise as my new title will be 'pharmaceutical manufacturing scientist' I will be working with anti cancer drugs, so its something that I will be using my degree for. I cant wait to get started insha'Allah.

Just wanted to fill you all in :D

The bad news

So I wanted to fill you with goodies before sharing this part of my life with you all. When we went up north a few months ago it was to tell the family we were getting married, we went around mostly friends and some family who I hadnt told on the phone. One person in particular was my Great Aunt Madge, her husband was married to my dads uncle and I remember loving going to their house as a kid. As usual a family rift happened and I didnt see them for many years, until I started driving and I would occassionally pop in to see them. Then my uncle Bob passed away a few years ago, I couldnt make his funeral as I was in Canada at the time with no holidays. I talked to Madge a few times on the phone and when I moved back here as I was living around the corner I would regularly pop in to see her.
She was taken into hospital the beginning of last week after a heart attack and unfortunately she passed away on Thursday. Something hubby said the other day really hit me, he said 'she was so excited for our wedding' which made me realise why the tears fall. They dont fall because Im sad, they fall because Im sad for my unborn children, the ones who will never know these people who have touched my life. Im also saddened that I couldnt help open their hearts to the beauty of Islam, but thats not something I can dwell on as I have no say in that matter, Allahu alim

Wedding shopping

On Monday we were both off so decided to go into Kingston to see if we could get some bits, we looked for hubby's tie, my shoes and some little bits. I got my shoes and a bag as you can see :) I had looked at these shoes last year for the nikah but I figured they were too small (5) or too loose (6) so I didnt buy them. Now I have enough time to try to wear them in insha'Allah. Im very happy with my purchases and even bought hubby his little lilac tie :)
We had a good day masha'Allah and came back tired, it wasnt something I wanted to do after a weekend of running around but alhamdulillah we had fun. I just cant wait for next weekend now, when Im not working, hubby neither and we can just sit back and rest insha'Allah
And Im looking at buying this little bolero to go with my dress, I just have to wait until the debenhams site is working so I can buy it and get it sent to the store here. Im trying to get all this sorted now so I can enjoy Ramadhan without the questions about everything.

Plans Ive been making

Salam girls, its been awhile I know and I apologise. I know there are plenty of people out there who have been waiting for my updates so here goes, Im going to post these with time delay so no'one misses anything and the posts aren't too long :) see how I think of you all :D Its not a selfish reason at all lol :D
Last weekend we took a coach up to Liverpool for the weekend at a cheaper price than normal (£24 return for two) which meant me taking a day off and not being around for much time. However, because we didn't have a car it meant we couldn't go to many places without help from someone, namely my dad. We spent the Friday giving in the marriage license, looking around the hotel where we will have the reception and sorting out little details, handing out a few invitations and catching up with a few people. It was nice to see hubby with some new people and some old people that he knows, it was good seeing him with my family and how they react with him too.
There are a few things that we need to decide on still for the party, table layouts, seating for the 'top table' I think Im liking the 'sweethearts table' idea the most. My parents are divorced and remarried which wouldn't be that much of a problem but the fact that his parents aren't coming or that he only has one person coming (his brother) it makes things very uneven on the top table.
On Saturday we went into Liverpool city centre and took a little tour, we've only ever driven through the city and never really had the time to take it in together. So with us not having a car and not being having a fixed timetable we went for a day out there and had a really good day alhamdulillah. We sat at the docks with sandwiches while the sun shone and the rain fell, it was amazing masha'Allah

We bought a guest book for the wedding that I had planned on getting before anyways, but at birthdays they were doing a free £15 gift bag with the book, so why not!! Its the me to you bears, and the bag contained a note book, small teddy, bookmark, pen (which we will use for the guest book) and keyring :) Then we took in a few minutes at the local cake shop in the train station and took a few photos for some ideas. My old next door neighbour told me the day before that her friend had recently opened her own cake making business and Ive taken up her idea to get her to make a top tier to go with the cupcakes that my friend Julia is going to make for the wedding insha'Allah

Polls

So over the next few weeks I might randomly be putting up a few polls to get your opinions on certain things for my wedding. Obviously you wont be making the final decision ;) that will be down to me and hubby, but your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Poll 1, cake! please vote.

Invitations

so we decided to make our own wedding invitations last week after seeing some packs on sale. We were very excited about the idea and started that day. Here are a few photos of the work so far :)
Things are currently moving forward alhamdulillah, mum is inputting ideas which Im trying to listen to as much as I can.. I know this is important for her and she feels left out and pushed forward because we dont have much time, but insha'Allah she will be able to look back at this day and remember the happiness and love that surrounded us.