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We visited my family in California this past week. Here’s a picture of Giovanna with her second cousin, Haven. Haven’s mother, Faren, and I are sister-cousins. In form, we’re cousins. In substance, we’re sisters.
We’re like those half-sisters who saw one another only intermittently through out our [...]
It seems that I become more fascinated with cooking as time passes. Perhaps stemming from my love affair with fresh, gourmet food. You are what you eat and I want my family and myself to be organic and healthy. But this is no easy feat. The process of planning, [...]
Why does pregnancy get all the notoriety for inducing cravings? Did everyone forget about breast feeding? I find myself experiencing more cravings as a nursing mama than as a pregnant one. Not to mention that I’m hungrier. In fact, breast feeding is known to burn at least 500 calories per day. [...]
I am proud to say that I am once again participating in Mama Kat’s writer’s workshop. I chose the following prompt this week:
Describe a time when you had difficulty communicating [...]
I prefer to eat fresh, organic foods. However, I’m also a busy mom and I’m surely not perfect. Don’t look so shocked.
Once in a while, the only way I will get lunch is by popping a frozen meal into the microwave. And when you’re shaking from hunger because your breast [...]
It has been 80 degrees the past two days in Sacramento. Without a cloud in the sky. Faren and I have taken several walks through the greenbelt behind her house. Wearing our babies, inhaling fresh air courtesy of the looming oak trees, reminiscing about our wild times in southeast Asia, and talking about motherhood. We [...]
Do you remember yesterday when I talked about living in Thailand? I failed to mention that my Southeast Asian adventures were not in solitude. I had a partner in crime. Faren, my cousin. But I prefer to call her sister-cousin. We had the time of our lives and share mountains of [...]
Since I neglected Tuesday food day yesterday, I will make up for it today…my love affair this week is with coconut oil.
Coconut oil, where have you been all my life?
I have loved coconut for a long time. I began to notice it as a kid in Halloween candy (Almond [...]
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