October proved to be a busy month. On top of family responsibilities, I tried to keep up with this blog and continue my attempts to help my younger brother write a book (you can read a brief idea about that here: http://anticipatingadventure.com/2020/01/21/remembering/). I also worked on creating an award-worthy recipe for a Christmas cookie contest… Continue reading Building Towers
The presidential election has left me feeling anxious like nothing else this year, and since we all know what this year has entailed in general, that’s saying a lot. I get nervous thinking about what our country might look like after the next four years. I honestly start to panic if I think about it… Continue reading In God We Trust
I no longer sing lullabies to my son before I put him to bed, and although I’m happy to have one less thing to do in our nightly routine, I’m also a little sad to have stopped. I would still be singing them, in fact, if it weren’t for Liam. He started complaining about the… Continue reading Te Va a Amar Jesús
I’m becoming increasingly thankful that I didn’t start a food blog like I had originally dreamed of doing. Between the testing, tasting, tweaking, and trying my recipe ideas over and over again (not to mention the time spent taking photos of the finished product), I’m pretty much amazed that anyone has a food blog! That… Continue reading Slow Cooker Spiced Pumpkin Mocha Latte (and an Individual Stove Top Option)
Now that fall is here, I am enjoying all the seasonal scents. I have made muffins and stovetop chai a few times, and although it still feels like summer beyond my front door, I have even burned candles a few times—ones with names like mulled cider and harvest spice. Yesterday I burned my oakwood spice… Continue reading Fragrant
It felt like fall several weeks ago. The air was cool and crisp, and it reminded me of a day nearly a year ago that inspired me to begin this blog in the first place—a day in which I felt God calling me on an adventure with Him (you can read more about that blogpost… Continue reading Banana Butternut Butterscotch Muffins
Photo by Sergio Souza from Pexels I read an ominous article several days ago. Or, better put, I read it halfway through—it was too disturbing to finish. The article was about a group of young ladies from the early 1900s that worked in a factory in New Jersey. Their job was to paint the face… Continue reading Poison
Liam and I sometimes play a game on our morning walks, unbeknownst to him. We generally play it when he takes rocks from his “rock collection” with us. When this happens, I try to leave as many rocks as I can alongside the pathway where Liam got them in the first place. Liam, on the… Continue reading Rock Collections
Liam woke up before 6 a.m. for a good chunk of the summer, and it was rough! The first week was especially brutal. I felt groggy most days and had to go to bed early out of sheer exhaustion. With new nap problems on top of this, I didn’t have any time to myself. I… Continue reading Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs
“Happy Jesus Day!” my son exclaimed to me a few mornings ago in his little toddler voice. I reveled in the cuteness of those words rolling off his lips. It was a phrase I had never heard before, and it was especially precious to hear my son say it since it centered on Jesus. After… Continue reading Happy Jesus Day
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