Feel free to surprise me! 🧡
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
A Filipino Feast
“HAPA's Chef Chris Gonzalez has partnered with SoNo 1420 craft distillery and Ria Rueda of Bread & Butter Marketing to bring you our first ever Kamayan style dinner to celebrate Filipino American History Month!“
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KISS- Keep It Simple Stupid
I always loved this phrase. Like don’t complicate things. Don’t ask for drama. Keep life simple. Magical. Romantic. Happy. Spontaneous. Adventurous. Grateful.
You have so much to give. I have so much to give. Enjoy that. Enjoy the little simple stuff.
When you’re with the right person no one else will matter. When you’re at the right job you are excited to go to work. When you’re in the right home you have peace.
Simple. How easy life could be if we accepted the simple pleasures in life.
But I am Happy...Really Happy
I wrote about this before here. I was talking to a friend. He said how many happy people do you know. Um...a ton!
Now like my previous article no one is 100% happy and if so it is short lived. But you can be happy. Not perfect. Yet happy and to me that’s important. Like really important.
There are some situations that still hurt and that’s ok. You get used to situations and go on with life. You can still be happy and carry a little pain in your heart.
I think that’s what life is about. Being happy even when things may not go your way. Even if your heart hurts. Even if we have some sadness BUT majority of us is Happy. Wake up excited to start the day. Go to bed smiling. Because nothing is ever perfect. Nothing is guaranteed. No one is going to make you happy. No one can come in and change your life. You have to.
So let it all go. Today. Anything holding your happiness back has to be set free.
I have my family and work and friends and constant fun and love of life. So I am single. My princess charming isn’t ready for me yet.
Only YOU can be in control of your life and happiness. Accept the 90%.
I promise you it helps with your health and mood and outlook on life. Don’t settle. Don’t stay comfortable.
I promise you it helps with your health and mood and outlook on life. Don’t settle. Don’t stay comfortable.
Spontaneous has been my 2019 word and I like it. I mean love it.
Have A Great Day... That’s All It Takes
I rolled out of bed and went for routine bloodwork. It’s super early. Like too early. So I show up and there’s a couple people there. We are all of course on our phones.
A woman walks out of the lab area and towards the exit. As she’s leaving one lady in waiting room says have a great day. The lady is a bit shocked and says thank you, same to you.
I was a bit shocked too. So then when the lady who said that was leaving I said to her have a great day and she smiled and said same to me.
I wanted to reciprocate it back to her.
When I was in Atlanta everyone was so nice. We would walk down the street and everyone would say good morning or have a great day to us.
We aren’t that friendly in the upper East Coast. We are so busy and occupied with our own lives and cell phones that when someone is polite to us we are set back and shocked.
I want you to do this today. I want you to say to a random stranger have a great day. You will see you want to do it over and over because it feels good.
Happy 1st Of The Month: October Fun!!!
I LOVE October. I love haunted hey rides and pumpkin picking. Making pumpkin pie and all the beer festivals. What an perfect time of the year.
Wishing you all an amazing October. You all deserve it. 🧡
Monday, September 30, 2019
Pain Teaches You A lot
We all have dealt with pain in our life. Some are worse than others. Some we have actually caused on people. Whether intentionally or not intentionally it has happened.
Pain isn’t just from a companion. It can be from a friend, a family member, a work colleague, a situation, a worldwide event or disaster. Pain comes from different avenues.
It’s is our job to take this pain and learn from it. When we suppress it it’s like putting clean laundry on top of dirty laundry. If you never get to the bottom or root of the problem the dirty messes up the clean clothes. See where I am going with this. It all blends. We can’t enjoy the good or clean clothes because those emotions are blended with the bad or dirty clothes.
Clean out your basket. Clean out your core and start over. Start filling yourself with positive experience. Pain isn’t avoidable. But healing is your responsibility. Pain will always happen. But deal with it at the moment and move on.
What To Do With Apples After Apple Picking
There’s no school today so I told the girl’s in the morning we would bake. There’s a ton of my favorite Apple recipes to make like...baked apples..apple crisp- recipe here and apple pie in an apple- recipe here, apple turnovers- recipe here. There’s even an Apple detox blend you can make- recipe here.
But this morning I decided to look up some new recipes and have the girls decide on what to bake.
15 Things to Do with All the Apples You Pick This Fall
Being A Good Mom...Doesn’t Always Mean Being THAT Mom
I have been blogging for over 10 years. I started out just about my journey of motherhood. But now I am
not just Mom. I am a foodie. I am Jay. I am a divorced mom to three girls. I am an entrepreneur. I am a girl who dates. I am a girl who has dealt with heartache and crazy life changes in such a short period of time. I am so much stronger, independent and wiser than I have ever been in my life. Self love is a major goal. Self acceptance too. I am so many things...that years ago if you told me who I would be today I wouldn’t believe you.
So I sometimes read my old posts. I like to see who I was verse who I am today. I came across this post. I swear I still am her yet so different. Things that used to have to be a certain way no longer have to be. I let go of some things and some things still remain the same. Of course my kids always come first and I still have wipes in my car and snacks well of course I carry so many snacks so much that even my mom jokes my “4th” daughter knows to come to me when she’s hungry because I always have enough for everyone.
So maybe I am sort of still that Mom but now I am so much more and I kind of really like her and hope the world does too!
February 2017 I wrote
Yes I Am That Mom...Well Maybe Just A Little Bit...
Blue Jay Orchards In Bethel
This is one of my favorite orchards for apples. You pre pay for a bag and go picking. There are a ton of different apples. You have to be careful because the bitter ones are the better ones for baking and the sweater ones are better for eating. My girls love apples and I love packing them for lunch so I kept going back for more fugi.
I love this orchard because across the street is where you can go on a tractor ride and their store is filled with awesome goodies. Best Apple cider donuts ever.
The tractor ride has these cute signs of how an Apple tree grows and no matter how many times I go on these things one fact always sticks with me.
This time it was this: it’s takes an Apple tree six years to grow before it producers apples. 6 YEARS.
Can you imagine? I would be like after three years thinking yeah this tree was a dud. But nope. You have to wait six years before it’s gives you apples. This is where patience needs to set in.
I was that mom reading out loud about all the fun interesting facts. After we started to joke around with the kids and quiz them.
It was a perfect Sunday morning. Next up to will be pumpkin picking.
What Do You Release So You Can Attract?
It was this cool video my friend sent me. You do a screen shot as all these words fill in. Whatever you land on is what you are suppose to release to attract.
Above are mine.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Everyone Crosses Your Path For A Reason
Whether it’s to teach you or show you something within yourself, everyone you meet is for a reason.
Sometimes it’s to show you how to love or receive love. Sometimes it’s to help heal you and turn your life around.
Appreciate everyone who comes along your journey. Also be sure to leave a positive mark on other people’s journey too.
What A Soul Mate Does...
Someone who comes in and changes your life...for the better. Who helps you see what you deserve and your full potential. Who brings out the best in you. Who connects with your core.
Oh Sunday’s...How I Heart You!
I don’t have them every weekend so weekend Mornings I do I try to make them special for them. I woke up my oldest and she rolled over and sniffed. I swear like a hound dog and I couldn’t stop laughing. Is that maple bacon mom? Yep.
She comes into the kitchen and loved seeing the cinnamon buns in a heart shaped pan. I used this pan a lot at our old house. The girls always loved it. I could serve anything in it and they would be happy.
So I whip up breakfast and start to experiment. This time I added Nutella to the pancakes. I must say was delicious. You didn’t need syrup or whip cream with it. They were delicious alone.
My youngest woke up with a sore throat so I made pasta soup. My oldest sees the pot and asks “did you really make pasta soup at 6:30 this morning?” yep!
I have done so much for these kids while younger that as they grow you tend to forget to refresh their memory with doing the same type of things. The same traditions. At times I ask if they remember all the activities and crafts and baking we did. Sometimes they forget. I am determined to bring it back into their life to recreate our memories. Just because some situations in our life are different doesn’t mean you have to stop doing the things that make your heart happy.
I hope your Sunday morning is as rewarding as mine was. I hope you wake up and do the things that make your heart happy. ❤️
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