Category Archives: Nurture

Make Homemade Lip Balm & Gingersnaps

This holiday season, I decided to make homemade lip balm & gingersnaps as part of my presents for my friends and family.

For the lip balm, I found this super easy recipe using only real food ingredients and Rene created . . .

Admit to a Kitchen Blunder and ER Visit

(NOTE: If you get squeamish about injuries, please stop reading.  It’s really not a hugely bad injury and there won’t be anything graphic about it here, but if stuff like this puts you off, you best stop reading now!) Just . . .

Make Holiday Crispy Nuts

This holiday season, I decided to make homemade gifts for my close family and friends.  Since I have been recently slammed with a lot of work, it had to be a quick and easy gift to make.  I decided upon . . .

Learn to Balance Work and Play

Wow, I have been so incredibly busy in the last few weeks.  First with work.  Then with lots of play.  And somewhere in there, I began to feel a major lack of balance in my life.

It all started a . . .

Admire The Birth of Venus Painting

I’ve been super swamped lately.  Lots of stuff happening (mostly working for clients and making the money), and unfortunately, not much time left for me to write posts here.  However, I’ve recently been very drawn to a classic piece of . . .

Attend a Wake

Until just this past week, I’d only ever been to one funeral in my life.  It was for my grandfather, and I was about 3 or 4 years old at the time.  I don’t recall much from that experience, except . . .

Accept That My Boyfriend is Simply Happier When the A/C is On Full Blast

Rene and I have been having some great difficulty in figuring out the right temperature for our household.  Rene enjoys inhabiting a house that is cold, I think he’s not comfortable till the temperature is well under 70 degrees.  And . . .

Walk an Elderly Lady Across the Street

It’s kind of fitting for this to be my first documented goal, because for as long as I can recall, I have had an illogical fear of the elderly.  I think the fear has to do with how I feel . . .

Who is the Modern Accomplished Lady?

To begin my journey, I must first define what a modern accomplished lady is to me. She is well versed and accomplished in several different qualities including, but not limited to: Culture, Career, Health, Housekeeping, Fashion, Nurture, and Refinement. More . . .