Our quarantine blessing and Baby #2 is coming April 2021. We are overjoyed for this blessing and excited to meet our baby girl. My son is 7 years old now and my first pregnancy was in 2012-2013, so going thru this 2nd pregnancy almost 8 years later….feels like I’m a first time mom again. I have been lucky this second time around. I feel great and didn’t have any morning sickness or food aversions. I was already following a workout program before I found out I was pregnant, so I just continue with that program but now modifying as I am in my 3rd trimester. My goal is to get 10K steps a day and ..read more

I have a goal to read 52 books this year, an average of about 1 book per week. I exceeded that goal last year (because quarantine…) so we shall see where I will end up this year. Here are the books I’ve read in January and my ratings. THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by V.E. Schwab Like so many books I love, it spanned an epic amount of time.  This book spans 300 years.  France, 1714 – this is about Addie, a girl who wants to be more than she is, so she makes a deal with the kind of devil whose deals are always worse than they seem in a moment of desperation, she makes a Faustian b ..read more

Hello 2021! Dusting off this good ole’ blog and hoping to document consistently on here again. A lot of life changes coming up in 2021 (…and what a year 2020 was!!!) and even though my preferred way to document life right now is thru Instagram, I want to write more on here too. I want to write mostly weekly summary of what we’ve been up to, mostly in pictures and some words. I loved looking back at these types of posts (so glad I have some in my archive). So here we go….. CURRENTLY baking my first sourdough bread for the year. I hopped on the sourdough hobby when quarantine started in March 2 ..read more