Just a little introduction
Today I spent the day making slow cooker ribs for my son and 100 Kpop stickers for my daughters 11th birthday. While that isn’t the most glamorous thing I could start my post with, I’m going with it. Because most of what I do is not glamorous; it’s pretty monotonous. I get up and get kids fed and ready for school. I take kids to school. I clean up around the house, get a few business related tasks done, prep dinner, then by the time I sit down for a late lunch it’s time to go back and get the kids from school, get half of them changed for sports, and back out the door we all go. Evening and bedtime routines are chaotic at best, and it’s rare if my toddler is asleep before 9 pm. Kari of 2 kids would have NEVER let her little’s stay up that late, but when the needs must, the must needs doing.
I saw all this with love, because this really is the life. I spent a lot of time at the end of last year considering how I wanted the next stage of my life to go, and how I wanted to raise my family through this chapter. Being wholly present for them is my primary goal and if that means making her stickers because she loves a movie and her friends will love the party favors, then so be it.
With all that said I have found that I absolutely need to find time for myself. And I don’t mean ‘self care’ like Instagram or TikTok tells you it is with nails and eyelashes, I mean activities that feed my spirit and leave me energized. When I was bouncing around from hobby to hobby I realized that one of my absolute favorite things to do was something I’d been doing since I was 9, and that’s cook and decorate. HGTV and I were on a first name basis when I was a child. And those memories is where this blog idea was born.
So what is all this rambling about party favors and carline about? Well, it’s a very lengthy introduction to what I’ll be sharing with you all in the future. I have years and years of notes, scraps of paper, recipes (both handwritten and created by me and adapted by others), and party planning ideas that I’m dying to put to the test and share with everyone.
My objective here is to be mildly entertaining while I help you Meghan Markle (excuse me, she’s Sussex now) your way through hosting Thanksgiving or your first baby’s birthday. Not to brag, but I’ve impressed my Greek in-laws with some of my recipes and hosting tips, and that’s just not an easy thing to do.
If any of this sounds interesting, or you just relate and want to watch a fellow mom avoid the crash and burn of approaching peri-menopause while raising 5 kids in today’s crazy world, follow along. I am so glad you’re here.
Love
Kari