2025 Mother’s Day Gift Guide

April 29, 2025

Sharing some gift ideas for all of the ladies in your life! Moms, grandmas, nanas, friends, mom figures, new moms, whoever you want to shower with something special this Mother’s Day. I also wanted to recognize here that I know Mother’s Day can be hard and sad for various reasons; please know I’m holding you…

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A gorgeous giveaway

***************EDITED TO SAY: This giveaway has ended as of 7/13/09 0800. Hey everyone! HAPPY FRIDAY! I’ve got a seriously amazing giveaway to kick off the weekend…. Remember this cookbook that I got (and have been experimenting with a little this week)?? I talked to Sarma, founder of One Lucky Duck and co-founder Pure Food and…

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A marble milestone

Hey guys! Hope you’ve had a great day! I just got back from seeing The Proposal with Jeni and Ashley and it was wonderful. I usually don’t laugh out loud during movies and I was giggling the whole time. It was muy bueno 😉 I spent a majority of the day in cleaning machine mode.…

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My hero, the pilot

Hey everyone! TGIAF!!!!!! Hope your day is off to a good start 😀 Spin and Zumba last night were intense. I still can’t believe I taught 3 classes yesterday with no AC. It’s a little –very- strange (maybe it’s the Arizona girl in me) but it feels nice in there when the AC doesn’t work.…

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On the banana bus

Hey everyone! Happy Indian Food day!! Hope your day is going well 😀 What a day… it all started this morning with my juice disaster. I was making a green juice: And a green apple got stuck in the juicer…. I turned it off, removed the lid and tried to poke the apple through with…

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Sauna spin and warm fuzzies

Hey everyone! How are ya? I am SO glad tomorrow is Indian Food Day– from then on, it’s smooth sailing until the weekend 😀 I just have to get through teaching 3 aerobics classes!   For lonchi, I made another recipe from Sarma’s new cookbook: the S&M salad. Here’s the pic from the cookbook: And…

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