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Quick Keto Shrimp and “Pasta” Dinner

In Week 4 of my kitchen renovation, I am discovering the wonders of cooking on a hot plate.

Lately, dinners at my house have consisted of quick and easy microwave meals, one skillet wonders, and lots of praying my picky eaters will just gulp it down without making a mess.

Add to the chaos the fact that we have a toddler with allergies and my husband and I follow a Keto/low-carb lifestyle, and it makes meals at my house challenging.

I’ve been eating lots of salads and throwing whatever meat I sauté for the kids into my salad mix. Lately though, I’ve been craving pasta, an absolute no-no for anyone on a low carb diet.

And then I found kohlrabi pasta. [Read more…]

When “Keep Calm and Carry On” Doesn’t Work

“I’m fine.”

Have you ever said that, when you know it wasn’t true?

Has someone said it to you, and you knew they were lying?

I can admit to both. Sometimes I’ve breezily just said it as a way to avoid talking about how I was really feeling. It was my way of keeping my chin up, of moving upward and onward and past hurt, or disappointment, and disquieting thoughts.

And when other people say it, and I sense it’s not true, I usually just move on to something else, respecting their privacy.

But what happens when you can’t just “Keep Calm and Carry On?” [Read more…]

Moving Beyond the Stay At Home Mom Life

After five solid years as a SAHM, I am transitioning back to work.

Two weeks ago, I put my youngest baby in daycare.  My oldest was already in daycare. For the last few days, I’ve been home alone, or at Starbucks on my laptop, or running errands that are much easier to do without toddlers in tow.

Sitting in the car smiling.

Enjoying some quiet time. Alone.

AND IT FEELS AMAZING!!!

Somedays I feel like skipping down the street. Other days I’m hunkered over my laptop at a new coffee shop I’ve found, where apparently there are legions of other people doing the same thing, fueled by caffeine, working working working.

I will admit, initially, I had a bit of mom guilt. I worried about how the daycare provider was handling my two-year-old’s food allergies to dairy and eggs and if she would have been better off under my watchful eyes. I wondered if I should teach her Spanish myself, instead of hoping my Dominican daycare provider would just speak her native tongue to my child.

But the guilt dissipated after a few days. Because I needed a break–from my two-year-old and the never-ending demands of motherhood.

There comes a point and time in Motherhood when you have to get back to who you are, when you start to think more about crafting a life and an identity outside of your kids. [Read more…]