Day One of BLOGMAS- Where Have I been? Spilling the tea..

HIIIII Everyone. I am back.

I just finished my MASTERS program, while working full-time with four children one being only 2 years old. It was a challenge, but now I have more free time. I've been doing yoga and meditation to rid myself of all the extra stress and negativity.

If you don't know, I now live in the United States and I am no longer married. This is a whole new world I've been adjusting to for the last three years. You'd think I'd have it down by now, but I still learn everything the hard way. I believe I learn things the hard way in order to help others in a  empathatic, non-judgemntal, caring way. I find myself to be very wise although I also feel very naive. Oh well.

I've tried several times to create a new blog, but I just couldn't. I wanted to leave the past in the past, but the past is what has made me the woman I am today. The woman I was then is much different than the woman I am now.

I am still totally a foodie, a beauty junkie, traveler, and lover of photography. It's all about finding time and saving enough money. All these things I will continue to share along with my family and other aspects of being a working mom doing the damn thing. There are many things that makes my situation quite unique that I will not elaborate on right now. However, when I hear or read about women in a similar situation as mine, I get so giddy- haha. But we are so damn busy to even spark up a proper greeting or at least I am. I am too busy for anything especially with older kids getting into everything outside the home and a baby who gets into everything inside the home.

So why did I decide to do BLOGMAS? Well, I am kind of a youtube junkie and I love when my favorite vloggers do vlogmas. It's where they vlog everyday. I know some people find it trivial to follow "regular" people, however, I love it because I am nosy and look for inspiration everywhere haha. I feel like blogmas is a way to get back to blogging, but also hopefully inspire that mom who doesn't think she is doing enough- which is me almost 100% of the time 65% of the time hehe.


Day 1 was a day at home. I work all week so I enjoy my rest. My son had a soccer day that my boyfriend who is also his coach took him to. I stayed home and did my yoga as well as meditated, played with the babies.

 I also decided to dust some old cookbooks off to use. My kids ask me why I don't use them anymore. Well it’s sad, but I thought I didn’t  need them and the internet is so much easier when I need to tweak a recipe or find one quickly. After going through them I didn’t realize how much I missed them! So this week, I am cooking straight from the books.  I did my meal plan and as I work 40 hours plus over time- which is an additional 10-20 hours a week- so the more simple the better.

This is the very first cookbook I bought over a decade ago. I look at it now and when they say basic it's truly basic haha. But the recipes are easily tweakable and we all enjoyed it then, so why be boujee about it now haha.


Also we haven't done any decorating for Christmas yet, but Elf Skywalker has decided to pay a visit today.

The kids were cautiously excited. The baby just wants the candy haha.

I also to bring some christmas cheer in this home, I decided to bake cookies every weekend and everyday during the 12 days of Christmas. So that may mean making some dough in advance haha.

I made Ina Garten's Pecan Sandies. I also added Hershey kisses to some because.....why not?

The kids and the elf enjoyed them.

Thank you for reading and see you all here tomorrow <3 p="">

#ThrowbackThursday! Children Grow Up So FAST!

Hi Everyone it's Thursday here so here are some pictures of my little ones when they were really little. I hold on to them so much I don't want to think of the day when they won't need me as much. Them showing independence is great and shows they're developing well, however it still makes me a little sad. My three promises that they will never leave the nest. I think my husband and I will be like the Cosbys where they want their  grown kids out, but they always welcomed them back if they needed somewhere to live for a week or year…but I think I will secretly happy about it :-) 

Question: How do you cherish every moment? I try to do little fun stuff with them. Do things as a family A LOT so they know the importance of family. Sometimes I take some time alone and think about what I love about them all and individually. They really made my life so much better!

My daughter as a newborn

My oldest as a newborn

My daughter is a day old

My youngest as a newborn

As you can tell I couldn't choose just one!!!!! 

Random Tidbits about Moving and Recipe Links

Hey y'all! It's the month of MAY! I am sure you all know that as it's the 7th, but what this means for us is that it's our last month full month here!

This month will be spent selling, donating, throwing away a lot of stuff. This is my first international PCS. I came to Germany with 2 suitcases. Exciting and stressful.

I am always walking around asking random people if they want/need something. I probably look crazy, but I call it hustling. If you're friends with me on Facebook, I stay asking folk if they need such and such as well. Just trying to give first dibs!

Yesterday I gave away all of my 220V appliances leaving room for new LOL. Initially, my intent was to buy after we moved, but I JUST couldn't pass this up.

It's a two-tiered digital steamer. I like Hamilton Beach products and it's only 30 bucks on Amazon and now I don't need to buy a rice cooker as I originally intended. I hope it arrives soon! http://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-37537-Digital-Steamer/dp/B002SB8LPA

The kids are starting to see that we're outta here soon as more things around the house disappears. Tomorrow the movers are coming by to make an estimate of how long it will take to move our house. hopefully it will not take too long because we have to CLEAN A LOT. The house has to be spic-and-span before we leave. We haven't had much luck getting out deposit back in the past and we're thinking we're in for a losing streak. ugh.

Right now we're shopping for homes.We're debating whether to live on base or off base any inputs will be great. Now that we know where we will be it makes it a bit easier to plan. I will let you all know for sure on June 15th where we will be!  My son's asthma became an issue so we were stuck in moving limbo. So happy to know for sure now and this time I didn't scream it out on the rooftops. Only close friends and family knows for sure basically our parents and siblings a couple friends and my husband's coworkers (of course).

We also planned one more trip probably our last to see my brother and his family in England. So excited to see them again. I am not sure when we will have the chance again. Hoping this trip is better, health wise....we all had a nasty bug the last time we were there. We'll see.

Thanks for reading. I've been making videos a lot so I can not wait to edit it. There's a lot of footage and i have to get a bit more savvy with video editing.

I am sorry i haven't been posting any recipes. But I have been cooking. If you follow me on instagram or my page you see that. Let me know if there are any recipes you'd like. Here's a recap:


Recipe is from Salty Seattle's Bulgarian Buttermilk Biscuits. I didn't use Bulgarian buttermilk LOL. But they were good :)


pork chops, cheesy country potatoes,biscuit and oranges lol


David Lebovitz's Simplest Beef Curry Really good the shallots is so perfect with this


Pan fried Spaghetti with BACON. Inspired by my Parents AND BenjiManTV



Ellie Krieger's Thai-Style Halibut


And Inspired from our trip to Italy

Gnocchi with Gorgonzola. Gorgonzola sauce taste good on EVERYTHING!!!!!!!


I'll try to kick out two recipes before we leave so look in my IG feed or my pictures on my blog's FB for any ideas!!! Thanks for reading