For Portuguese people, Kale Soup is a staple, a cultural meal. (My kale soup recipe) It’s something most, if not all of us enjoy eating. For me Kale Soup is familiar and comforting, it makes me proud that my people are such damn good cooks haha, but mostly, it reminds me of my grandparents. My grandfather, specifically. When my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 and knew that her time was coming to a close, she wanted to make…
Oh, toddlers. Little humans packed with endless energy and curiosity! If you’re like me and always looking for new ideas of what to do to keep your little one happy, learning and entertained check out this list of 20 things to do with your toddler! Most of these things are either free, cheap or involve supplies that can be purchased from the dollar store. I hope you enjoy! And please share your favorite toddler activities! 🙂 Color with crayons and…
I want to share some advice I heard the other day in a podcast that really stuck with me. As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been binging on podcasts lately, specifically Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations (I listen for free on Spotify). I listened to the episode “Steven Pressfield: Unlock Your Creative Genius” and the message is one that has stayed with me over the past few days. Steven talks about how resistance almost always shows up when…
I had no plans to share this post today but sometimes things happen and I wish there was someone who fully understood to talk to and there isn’t. But I’m going to vent here, and maybe some day someone will be feeling what I’m feeling and it will help them. Julia’s birth left me with PTSD. I went to a therapist for a short time who was able to confirm this, but even if she hadn’t, you know…
Today I want to share my meal planning process with you. Before I started meal planning, I found myself becoming stressed out quite often about what to make for dinner, I’d wind up making multiple trips to the grocery store throughout the week and always ending up with no food to cook on the weekend. That would often lead to getting takeout. The thing is, I truly enjoy cooking. But when I don’t have a set plan for the week it’s…
“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right” – Neil Gaiman I came across this quote on Pinterest the other day and it really struck me. Vulnerability has been a theme in my life lately. Being vulnerable and expressing your inner thoughts, struggles…
I want to share a memory with you about my grandmother. Her name was Norbina. I think I am comfortable saying she had the biggest influence on me in my formative years. To this day I still look up to her. She and my grandfather helped in raising myself, my older brother and older cousin while our parents were at work. I’ll never forget when my cousin started school. He was a year ahead of me so It was…
When my grandmother died, it destroyed me. She was my first real loss, and unfortunately for me, my first real loss happened to be one of the most important people in my life, one of the most influential. See, my grandmother was more than a grandmother. She was a major mother figure in my life and her relationship with me was based on true, unconditional love. It was not materialistic, she couldn’t afford to spoil me materially like some grandmothers…
Happy new year! Let me start off by saying that I hope you all have a wonderful, healthy, happy and positive 2019. In reality, we can choose to wake up any morning of the year and make a new goal and start the process of a new change but there is something about the fresh slate of a new calendar year that can really strike that inspiration. For me this year I really would like to focus on broad goals….
I cannot believe that I am writing this right now – Julia is officially, a ONE year old! a Toddler! What?! How does the first year go by SO fast? I feel like she has been developing rapidly in the past few months and blossoming from my sweet little baby into my full blown, still sweet, but also very adventuous, toddler! I struggled a bit to put together 5 essentials for these past three months because really I’ve found that…