Let’s start with flowers…

Routines.
Just by saying this word a need to inhale deeply emerges as if an invisible cigarette was stuck in my mouth. (Yes, I used to be a smoker. I don’t miss it.)
How do you feel, what do you think, when this word, “routine”, pops up?
For me, that depends. Some days, “routine” makes me light and [...]

It all started with a cupcake.
This cupcake.

 
After eating it, I was so happy that I started seeing pink, pink, pink everywhere I looked. Do you see everything in pink too or is it just me?
 
Seriously now. One thing led to another…
A new idea was born.
It started a few weeks ago when I was feeling blue. [...]

I don’t feel like posting recipes lately. Do you mind at all? I wonder… Please do tell me. Because my head seems to be more into daily family stuff, writing or photographing whatever is around me than posting new recipes that I cooked or baked. I feel more excited telling you about Saturday then the [...]

I woke up this morning totally not wanting write about food. I was feeling blue.
Maybe because I was tired.
Maybe because my throat is a bit soar. I drank tea, not coffee, which is always a sign that I’m not feeling well.
My energy levels were down.
We woke around 7 am, then I went to the kitchen [...]

I could sum it up this way: play, cook, eat, clean, play, cook, eat, clean. But…
It started with a lazy morning
watching TV

The Wiggles…

Then, some kitchen time/putting the kid to work

and cleaning up a little

or watching the others clean up
More play time

and more play time

I knew it reminded me of something… The little mermaid versus [...]

As I’m writing this post, I am thinking about someone I know. She never reads my blog. For the benefit of the doubt, I’d say she rarely reads my blog. There are things I want to say and I wish she would listen to me. She probably won’t, but you will?
I spoke with a few [...]

I have a friend. Let’s call her R. I’ve known her for about 8 years. But only about a year ago we became good friends. Sometimes, it takes the right moment for the spark that brings two people together to happen. Do you know what I mean? There’s someone next to you but you don’t [...]

You people, you are something else!
I don’t know how this happened or exactly why (although I have a clue…), but almost out of the blue I started having thoughts and questions: What’s the point of this blog? Why should I continue writing? For who? Who cares? What do I have to say or contribute that [...]

Yesterday I hesitated before pressing the “publish” button for my first “Happy” post but I did.
Later that day I went out for a cooking class at Sur La Table with Mrs. Steamy Kitchen.

I haven’t seen my husband and my kids since that morning when they left for school and work. It felt weird to be [...]

I love this photo. As it happens, it very much reflects what I want to share with you today. Darkness behind the little girl and a glow of light in front of her, it symbolizes the way I see myself. (I took this photo a few months ago and it was a spontaneous one.)
I was [...]