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The million dollar question every newly-wed has heard thousands of times: When are you having a baby? On the authority of Abu Hurairah (RA) who said: The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W) said: "Part of the perfection of someone's Islam is leaving alone that which does not concern him" [Tirmidhi] The hadith alone should answer people's question, it's nobody's business but your own. When you're 20 something and single, everyone is trying to set you up with someone, just so eager for you to get married. Then you get married and everyone wants to know when you're having a baby. This question is a bit personal for me and I was contemplating whether I should even write this or not, but I presume there are many sisters out there who feel the same way I do. I have been married for about a year and half now and since the day I got married people have either been speculating I was pregnant or blatantly asked me directly if I was pregnant. I got married when

Hubby's friend got married recently, as with all Asian weddings it was full of parties leading up to the big day. His mum and sister in law, also a good friend of mine, organised a mini party at home for family and friends a few days before the wedding. I was stuck on ideas of what to take to the party so I started browsing Instagram (as you do) and I came across Crazy Cakeateers . The party was on Sunday and I was thinking of ordering a cake just a few days before, so I took the chance and decided to just send a message and ask if they could accommodate my request at such short notice. The company is based in St Albans and they make a huge variety of cakes and cupcakes, all made to a high quality with exquisite detail and elegant designs. Now when I say super customer service I mean SUUPERR customer service! They replied to my message pretty much straight away. All I knew was the sort of colour and design I wanted, I wasn't even sure how much they charged or the

-Life Behind The Lens- Image from: http://www.bigmarketing.co.uk/social-media-mining/ Most of us these days are very up to date with social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat. We watch our favourite YouTube vloggers/bloggers, keep up to date with their everyday lives via their personal social media accounts, know the names of their spouses, children and even their pets. Some of the people are not even YouTubers, just random girls we follow on Instagram because they follow us, because they post interesting or pretty pictures and sometimes just because she's really pretty. We're all guilty of it, following random people and keeping up to date with their lives while we live our own. To the outside world their lives look perfect, they're beautiful, they have a picture perfect wedding, have the perfect husband to whom they give cute nicknames, they have the perfect house, they have a car, they're the perfect parents to their perfect children, in their perf