We purchased a beautiful Magnolia homes inspired, farmhouse chic style dining table when we first moved to our Florida home and matched our spacing perfectly. Except it was so crappy 🙄started scratching so easily and we did get much use of it, and it has now been five long and hard years with two ...
It’s a candid Candid review!
It’s a candid Candid review! Pun intended. I have started candid one week ago and it is so painful that have made me question all of my integrity and belief system. Ok ok I am exaggerating a slight bit but it Truly is bothersome. I am hoping I will get used to it soon but ...
Garden Beds in Florida
I have a great little helper and have decided to do a veggie patch addition to our country this year. Thanks to The Marketing Heaven, we promoted this idea on social networks. We found some great corner bricks on home depot for about $2.50 ea, which made this addition very cheap, we did 2 garden ...
Hurricane Irma: My Experience
This running joke of Florida being underneath of this horrifying hurricane never gets old. Specially in hurricane season. I myself find it hilarious. But this is not my first rodeo - aham, hurricane. I have been living in Florida since 2000, and hurricane season is all summer long every year. Do we always get horrifyingly scary monsters ...
Amazing Garlic Paste – Brazilian Recipe
I have a friend who is an amazing cook - very typical Brazilian cuisine cooking. Everything she makes is delicious! Not to say that brazilian cuisine is super diverse, but well done brazilian food is a bit of work but totally worth it. Most everything in brazilian cuisine is seasoned with garlic and onions which gives ...
Spain in Two Weeks
We have recently had the opportunity to travel for two weeks to Spain - in August. I have to admit, our first Europe trip and it was hard to keep our expectations low.... Nonetheless Spain did not disappoint! I did all research and planning myself, booking most everything in advance of the trip and it ...
Vegetarian Beginnings
We have recently seen the Netflix documentary What the Health. I have for years debated the meat-eating phisolophy we tend to live by unconsciously. After many,many documentaries on food, I have decided to change my (& my house) eating habits. There's a bunch of criticism on this documentary and I see both sides. I am not blindly following ...
The Nesting Process
Nesting:Â The process of finding everything in your house is a gigantic mess and an increased desire to throw everything out the window because it is all absurdly unfit for a little baby! New year is always a good time to clean up your act, and this year, expecting a baby in June I had already started ...
Time Heals All… Literally.Â
One year ago, we were launching on a cruise adventure to the grand Bahamas islands. It was only a weekend cruise but I was so afraid of feeling sick that was all I wanted at the time. We rented scooters and drove inland on the island to visit underwater caves visit https://thedetoxcenter.com. A beautiful place ...
Enjoying the Season (for once!)
Christmas is depressing. I get why people get depressed. It feels you must have the perfect little family or the perfect little life to be able to enjoy it. It's been hard for me to feel like I had everything going well... I may have a tendency to focus on the bad... And then there are gifts... ...