Since this week is Thanksgiving, I feel compelled to write about things I am thankful for but I’m just drawing a blank. Cue the crickets. Life is just hard. Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning in so many uncertainties and every time I try to catch my breath, I get knocked down by another wave. […]
Last year our family traveled home (aka Hawaii) for Thanksgiving. I finally took the plunge and for the return flight back to the mainland (i.e. Texas) flew solo with my three kids. I figured that since they were older, and by older I mean 2, 4 and 6 years old, it couldn’t be that hard. […]
Ben’s birthday party last year was an epic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) themed party. I made fruit and veggie trays that were shaped like Leonardo and Donatello and we even splurged and had a TMNT pinata. By far the best part were these super TMNT cupcakes I slaved over. They were the icing on […]
Flying back on the same airlines that we flew on when we first moved our family from Hawaii to Texas brought back so many memories of our fight from hell. We had a 3 year old, 10 month old and I was 4 months pregnant. To say that I was stressed and exhausted would have […]
Today, everyone is out of the house and so it’s just me and my thoughts. The things that I’ve been pushing down because there are sandwiches to make, noses to wipe and lost toys to rescue from under the couch have now reared it’s ugly head to the surface. I can no longer ignore what […]