I recently experienced that moment every blogger both hopes for and dreads: discovering that people you know are reading your work. It started when someone asked my sister if she knew about my blog. “Yeah, I knew the day she created it, lol,” she replied. My immediate reaction? Horror. OMG. The realization that my sister’s…
It’s officially wedding season for us Desis, and it’s already got me doing mental gymnastics. Back-to-back weddings from September all the way through April is a lot to handle! Planning, prepping, and double-checking calendars is how we survive this chaotic but fun season. Its my favorite season since we get the opportunity to see so…
Can you believe we are two weeks into the new year?! Where has the time gone? I hope everyone has had time to rest and enjoy the holidays. I set yearly goals—big and small—but I wanted to do the fun Instagram trend this year of “ins and outs,” and I thought I would share it…
The last quarter of 2024 was something else—I’m not even sure if I have the right words, let alone the mental capacity, to recap it. And I’m not going to do that here because this blog isn’t my personal journal. I try to keep things positive, so I wanted to share my top three memories…
While I don’t get the usual “Sunday scaries,” I feel the Friday scaries as my workweek kicks off on Saturday. The anticipation—wondering what kind of day I’m walking into, if my patient load will be manageable, or if I’ll be tracking down family members—definitely keeps me up some nights. Here are a few things I…
Recently, I was chatting with friends about the little things that truly make life better, and it got me thinking: the most useful items in our day-to-day lives are often not the most expensive. Inspired by that conversation, I took a walk around my house to gather a few of my favorite affordable essentials—some I…