Thank You For Being A Friend:: Celebrating Friendship with The Golden Girls
This “new normal.” It’s wearing and exhausting. The racial tension and the desperation for change in our country feels endless. What the world needs now:: more friendship, more love and support and more reasons to smile. Friendship According to The Golden Girls I found all that in The Golden Girls. I’ve been watching a lot […]
My Field of Poo Flowers:: Finding Happy in 2020
Okay, 2020 is officially – a giant pile of poo. Yeah, I said what I said. We’ve only made it to the halfway point and we have a pandemic, social unrest unseen since the civil rights era, economic recession, murder hornets, Sahara dust, a Tiger King takeover, massive fires, neighborhoods sliding into the ocean, a […]
Homemade Baby Food Guide For Beginners {NOT Overachievers!}
If my future self had told my younger pre-children/early 20’s self that I would be making homemade baby food for both of my boys as infants/toddlers, my younger self would’ve laughed until those boot cut jeans I was wearing finally went out of style. You see, I am NOT very domestic. I avoid going into […]
A Lesson for My Daughter :: Stop Saying Sorry
Our home feels smaller these days and things that caused very little attention before are now magnified. The volume is now louder with all of my people under one roof all day {and night}. There is more bickering and more competition for space to just be alone. It was in this space of chaos that […]
Houston Restaurant Weeks:: The Show Must Go On
Houstonians look forward to Houston Restaurant Weeks every year and even though the 2020 HRW will look a bit different, the show must go on. Due to COVID, restaurants have had to pivot, like a lot of other local businesses. But that doesn’t mean that the Houston Restaurant Weeks won’t be happening. Starting August 1st- […]
Celebrating National Ice Cream Month at Home
I dream of ice cream. No, seriously. I do. Where most adults prefer to imbibe a glass of wine, pop the top of a can of beer, or hear the clink of the ice in a glass of fine scotch daily, I’m that person who would pick ice cream over alcohol any day of the […]
Searching For a Home:: The Quest for Spiritual Community
If the loss of school and work and our social lives was not enough for one pandemic to take, this season of distanced existence has illuminated the need for new spiritual communities and connections around the globe. I have heard from many friends that as the world has physically stepped apart, the months of altered […]
A Houston Moms Guide to the Best Food Blogs and Online Recipes
Baking and cooking have been two of my biggest hobbies for as long as I can remember. It is embarrassing to admit this, but I’ve seen every episode of the Great British Baking Show on Netflix at least twice. Side note:: if you’re in need of some feel good TV right now, this is the […]
Natural Family Planning:: Be Empowered in Your Fertility
My husband and I don’t use birth control. In a world where hormonal birth control and other contraceptives are a hot topic, I always feel a little vulnerable in telling people that. What? You don’t use contraception? Like at all? And when I go on to tell them we use Natural Family Planning, I feel […]
Top 20 Pandemic Survival {Quick and Easy} Kid-Friendly Lunch Ideas
One of the most surprising things about having kids at home all the time is the mind-boggling effort it takes to come up with EASY lunch ideas. I see lots of healthy and pretty options online, but those often require too many steps and more ingredients than I usually have on hand these days. After […]