Chili is a weekly staple in our household! It is delicious, filling and very easy to put together. It makes a perfect weeknight meal and it is one of my favorite “set it and forget it” type of recipes. Check it out below! Please let me know if you try out this recipe in the comments below! 🙂 SaveSave
As I’ve mentioned in the past, my pregnancy with Julia was pretty much smooth sailing, right up until the last trimester. I hadn’t really developed any stretch marks until I was about 32 weeks and then they came on like crazy. However, once I was around 37/38 weeks I started noticing the marks on my belly were becoming very itchy. Before I knew it, I had a rash that covered my belly, upper arms, legs, and thighs. It was miserably…
Wow! I seriously can’t believe I’m on the 2nd to last installment of this series! Julia just turned 9 months old and there have been a few new things we’ve been using to help her learn, and also make life easier. I started to see a huge jump in Julia’s development around 6 months. Suddenly she’s learning so many new things, and so fast! It is seriously a joy and relief to see her becoming a smart, determined-to-learn, little “junior…
A whole almost 8 months have passed since my sweet baby girl was born! I cannot believe she is already closer to 1 than being born! In the past, I shared my top 5 baby essentials for the 0-3 month age, so of course, I had to follow up with the products I have found essential for months 4-6! I apologize that I’m a little late with this one! Wearable Blanket In my 0-3 month series, I shared my love…
Being a first generation American, my Portuguese roots have always had an incredibly close place in my heart. Both of my parents immigrated to the United States (my mom age 11, my dad age 24) from Sao Miguel, Azores. A very popular Portuguese dish that we all grew up with is Kale soup! There truly was nothing as delicious as my grandmother’s Kale soup. Before she passed away she taught my grandfather how to make it. He is the only…
When we became parents, my husband I knew that we wanted to give our child/ren a childhood filled with warm family memories and traditions. Recently we celebrated Julia’s very first “1/2 Birthday”! I had seen photos of 1/2 birthday celebrations on Pinterest and thought it would be such a fun idea to do every year on her 1/2 birthday! This year we decided to celebrate by doing a little photoshoot with a cupcake, and let her have a little taste…
Having the opportunity to be a stay at home mom truly has been a blessing. It is both the most fulfilling thing and the most difficult thing I have ever done! I’ll soon be entering my 6th month of this crazy journey and I thought I would compile a few things that have helped me keep my sanity along the way. I think these things can particularly apply to stay at home parents, but also to any parents, because no matter…
As soon as we found out we were going to become parents, my husband and I knew there were certain things we really wanted to do. One of these things was to make our baby a “baby book” to document the first year of her life. In today’s fast-paced and very digital world, people hardly print photos anymore. This is something I am trying to make sure I actually stick to. Having photos on social media and our hard drive…
Reading has always had a special place in my life and I hope that Julia will also know the comfort of curling up to read a good book one day. Before she was even born, my husband and I began buying her books, and have built up a little library for her. There are a ton of benefits that reading to your baby can provide, such as helping them to recognize the connection between words and sounds, and eventually introducing…
Happy New Year! 2017 was quite a whirlwind of ups and downs for me. My husband and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary, I went to my second Green Day (my favorite band) concert, and my sweet baby girl, Julia, was born! Julia’s birth and the week that followed were the scariest points of the year for me for sure. However, although 2017 changed me in so many ways, it also gave birth to a new me – a stronger,…