Beyond the Garden Gate

As I walked amongst the "plumpy" blackberries (like we like to call them) taking deep breaths of their sweet smell mixed with the recently watered garden dirt. While I filled my mouth with the black honey of summer straight from the sun kissed branches,I watched my little girl happily humming to herself beside me with grandmas colander overflowing and trying to figure out how she could cram just a few more without them rolling off. Just then couldn't help but think of how romance doesn't just die, we let it, oh and how easy that can happen when we are not intentional in finding the beauty and wonder in the simple, monotonous, and humdrum rutine moments in our everyday life that seem meaningless and ordinary but are actually the opposite, those are the moments that we will look back to some day, those are what memories are made of. We are a tad spoiled, I have to admit, by thornless blackberry bushes! What a joy to pick berries without bleeding

Yep, it's me, once more popping in this little corner of the internet after a few years since using this blog.  Why am I back? Well in a nutshell I decided a while ago to take a break from Instagram, it's been a few months now since my last post there. I used that platform as a mini blog mainly because I enjoyed posting beautiful pictures and it also gave me the chance to write recipes, fun tips, life musings, and shenanigans plus make friends. But I started to feel burned out with all the changes and I also noticed It started sucking me in more. I lost so much precious time in it instead of providing a place to express myself.  It has been quite interesting to see how social media has changed over the years. Mainly Instagram (but the same applies to facebook and youtube), where artists used to share beautiful pictures. My feed was a place of beauty and inspiration. And now it has morphed into a tiktock-ish mini facebook with video clips, "influencers" convincing us t

Even though I am a work from home mom, I take pride in calling myself a homemaker. I think It doesn't matter whether we stay home or work outside of home in the end we are all Homemakers. We use our time, strengths, gifts, and service to make our house a home, and no matter what the culture says, being a homemaker is something to be proud of, You are more important than you realize!  Homemakers possess a lot of great qualities, they are thrifty, organized, reliable, flexible, and resourceful . The roles of a homemaker includes food planner, shopper, and preparer, housekeeper, budgeter, errand runner, child caretaker, empathetic listener, host, and many more. So, if you manage your home with care and pride, and you try hard to make your home a special, peaceful, and comfortable space for you and your loved ones, you are a homemaker 💕👑 Like C.S. Lewis said: "I think I can understand that feeling about a housewife's work being like that of Sisyphus (who was the stone rollin