Among The Caffeine & Chaos

18/07/2025

04/03/2025

It is officially Read Across America Week - we are celebrating Dr. Seuss' Birthday and literacy. Here are my favorite Fashion finds for the bookworms and educators. I will be rocking these looks this week. Links to these Amazon finds in the comments. ⬇️ 📚
Amazon.com Amazon Fashion Dr. Seuss

01/03/2025

My outfit for Mardi Gras 2025. Links to products in the post comments. ⬇️👑🎭💜💚💛🔮🎷🎵🎶⚜️
Amazon.com

21/02/2025

🎵Top Song: The Line - Bryan Elijah Smith
❤️Why I love it - A slow burn. An even slower steady chug of a freight train. A soulful lament. The bluesy hallelujah of days past. Spotify Bryan Elijah Smith

26/01/2025

Just finished this - I could not put it down! What did you all think of it?

I am going to start the mini-drama series soon.


Apple TV

09/07/2024

🌱🌻🥒 Celebrating the first veggie harvest of the year! 🌿🍅

Feeling incredibly grateful as I collect plenty of herbs and witness the thriving of all my varieties of flowers. But today, it's all about my first veggie haul ever - cucumbers and Roma tomatoes. They're patiently sitting on the window sill, ripening, and it's a glorious sight! 🌿🍅

Not only that, today marks my and my fiance's third anniversary of being homeowners, and I couldn't think of a better gift from our home. It's amazing how a plan grew in my heart last summer, when I started working on our landscaping and exterior remodel projects. I immediately started planning and saving, determined to make this dream come true. My love for plants blossomed, and so did my green thumb. Now, my garden, yard, patios, and porches are filled with herbs, flowers, and veggies, creating my own little oasis. ☀️🌿

Being out in the sun, breathing in fresh air, grounding, and tending to my home and passion projects with music in the background has become my therapy. It's a feeling of pride I've never known before, except in being a mom. My garden may be small now, but with each season and year to come, I hope to see it and its fruits bloom, just as I am doing. 🌸🌿

Here's to giving back to and receiving from Mother Earth, one blessing at a time. 🌎✨

01/04/2024

💐☀️Hello, April!☀️💐

May this new month of renewal bring you peace, joy, and be your fresh beginning.

15/03/2024

How else would one celebrate March 14th? Well, with all things Pi(e) and STL-themed (The 314) of course! For dinner tonight, I made a homemade chicken pot pie for my daughter and me, since we are not fans of Imo's pizza. My other half, who was born and raised in St. Louis, MO enjoyed that for dinner. For dessert, we had mini pies. I also got some of St. Louis' best snacks (if you know, you know) to complete the celebration. Happy Pi/STL Day!


Imo's Pizza Ted Drewes Inc. Gus' Pretzel Shop Fitz's

14/03/2024

You've got this, mama. 💜

(Twitter/Mommywifelife77)

14/03/2024

Happy Pi (3.14)Day! How are you celebrating? I'm making a homemade chicken pot pie for dinner and bought mini pies for dessert. Enjoy this fun holiday.

13/03/2024

Remember this note: "Have what you want - add what you need!" 👏

Tonight, Wednesday, March 13, I made some delicious Burger Bowls. It was the perfect way to use up the leftover potato wedges from Sunday's dinner. I reheated them in the air fryer and added them to the bowls.

Initially, I was planning to make the "Big Mac" dupe sauce from scratch, but I have been fighting off a virus for two weeks, and I decided to use a "cheat code!" 🤣

You can find the recipe for the seasonings I used on the hamburger meat in my social media posts, so check it out!

This dish is so easy to make, budget-friendly, and delicious. It was already one of my favorite meals, but the addition of the potato wedges made it even better.

13/01/2024

Checking off to-do lists and sticking to my 2024 Resolutions: decluttering my life and brain, organizing, adding time for "glimmers" into my schedule, and finding ways to de-stress. Currently working on my first big project of the year: scanning three households worth of family recipes into a shared recipe Google Drive folder for my Grandma, my Mom, and myself. Then, adding them into Ancestry when I am done. I then link these digitally saved recipes into my Samsung Food app for meal planning. Meal planning saves me so much time and money. As Taylor Swift says, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!" This project fulfills 5 categories important to me: organization, decluttering, planning, preserving Genealogy documents, and doing whatever I need to do to relieve stress. Doing so while staying inside from a weekend filled with "Arctic"temps here in the Midwest; and, listening to some great music. I may or may not have bought those Def Leppard tickets for this Summer. 😍😜 Like I said: self-care and glimmers are the forecast for 2024! A healthy, happy Mama leads to healthy, happy kids. How are you keeping your Resolutions and taking care of yourself thus far into the New Year? Drop your Resolution list, Self-Care goals, and organization tips below!⬇️

#2024

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