Hold on just a freaking minute.... how have I not shared a product review since November 2020?!! Gosh, COVID just really changed a lot. Hopefully, this will not be the case going forward. As I momentarily squirreled when I should be devoting this space to Good Hope Bakery - let's talk about what they sent me and how it went. As always, there is no compensation for product reviews other than free product sent as my opinions are always my own. Who & What: First, a little bit about the company. Good Hope Bakery makes yummies that are Celiac friendly in a dedicated gluten free ..read more

 Life has been ...challenging and full of changes the past few years. It has been a bit of a rollercoaster with so many dips and turns. I have learned multiple life lessons and I have found out so much about myself and the people in my life. My last post shared about how life was telling me that it was just time to slow down, even if I wasn't ready to. I went through a pandemic, I watched my family become something new and different, I saw myself grow into the person that I am supposed to be and I realized how precious time is. I don't waste an ounce of it now. To some who don't really kn ..read more

 Most of my life, I have had the energy and attitude of go-go-go. If life threw me a curveball, I would allow myself small moments of silent pity parties but then I would get up and begin again. In my mind, I have no time to waste, ever. In my heart, I have too much to give not to love the right person. In my soul, I have just one life and I have zero patience to wait for anything... even the good things. Maybe it was my upbringing. Maybe it is a family trait (all of the women in my family are strong and stubborn and if you dare tell them they cannot, they will not only find a way to do i ..read more

 It's been almost one full year since I wrote a blog. One Year. I have been writing since I was very young- it's always been a passion of mine. Words flowing onto paper or otherwise because sometimes, life stifles your ability to speak the words that you need to share. So when I stopped writing, I was concerned. I thought a part of me had died, that I was losing something that I felt so deeply about. It turns out that nothing is lost but so very much has been found.  The Title    The title I chose today was not to be dramatic or to be eye catching. It is truly based on wh ..read more

 Most of you have noticed that my blogs have been almost non active. Life has changed drastically in so many ways. Difficult decisions had to be made. COVID basically killed Nutrimom as a business and other factors led me to push my previous commitments aside and choose what had to be done vs. what I wanted to do. During the process, my blog became nearly inactive and life as Nutrimom began to dwindle. The harsh reality of not being driven by my previous passions slapped me in the face each day as I began to work six days a week, try to get through the remainder of my divorce, keep up the ..read more

 I haven't been as consistent with my blogs as I was in the past. I know everyone says life gets in the way but for me, it truly did. I miss writing as this has been such a part of my life. Even as a child, I wrote poetry and my first book at age 12. But yes- life has gotten in the way of this part of what is so important to me. I had to take a step back. I had to figure out what was absolutely necessary during a HUGE shift in my life but I am so very proud of this shift. I (try) not to share too much on a personal level because I don't believe in airing my dirty laundry with everyone bec ..read more

Admittedly, I have been in this whole weird space trying to figure out where my life needs to go right now. What used to bring me passion has been put on pause. I am a person who believes everything happens for a reason, even if it does not make sense at the time that it is happening. One of my lifelong passions has been writing. I have written since I was in second grade. It is an outlet, it gives me a voice and if you are a subscriber, you have noticed that my blog articles have thinned out compared to how much I used to write.  When I am lacking in my life, I ask the Universe for help ..read more

What I love about the food allergy community is that regardless of how long it has been since we saw/spoke/communicated with each other, we are always here for one another. It's like that lifelong friend that you have known since when you were like 4 and you still call each other to catch up without feeling weird. That friend that you can just call out of the blue and they just appear, asking what they can do to help. In this day and age, isn't that an awesome and amazing thing to have? 2014 Food Allergy Bloggers Conference Today, I want to help one of my friends. I have known Dr. Ruc ..read more

 This is my first blog since February- FEBRUARY! Not like me but things happen, life happened and I am happy to report that I have some exciting news to jump back into my blog articles with. A few years back, I came across a nonprofit Mend Hunger and I immediately knew I that I needed to help. In the beginning, Mend Hunger was leading a mission to ensure that gluten free foods were available at their local food banks. That, in itself, is amazing. They fed many but still found some hiccups along the way and, like many of us, were faced with new challenges when COVID came about. Did that st ..read more

Raising children can be challenging but imagine throwing food allergies into the mix. Research shows that parents of food allergic children have a higher stress rate, which includes increased marital stresses. Obviously, this also means increased chances of divorce for those parents. Divorce is never something that enters your mind when you get married and neither does the thought of your food allergic child deciding to remain with the parent that was less proactive in their allergy protection. I am in no way saying that there aren't families that don't have both parents remaining active in th ..read more