My cousin was 5 years old when we got married 18 years ago. She was an adorable flower girl in our wedding. Most of our lives we have lived a few states away from each other, but when we moved up to the Seattle area, I got to know her a little bit better. She no longer lives nearby, but I think and pray for her often.
It’s usually on the days when I’m really lonely and struggling with the long hours of a chef that I think of her and pray for her. Her husband is not a chef (although he cooks very well), but is deployed in the Army. So while I sit at home, lonely and depressed about my husband who is working long hours an hour away from our house, I am reminded of her and many others, who have husbands on the other side of the world who will not be home for months. (more…)
Until I lost my mother to cancer 12 years ago, I never knew Mother’s Day was a hard day for anyone. For me, it was a fun day to celebrate my Mom and my Mother-In-Law. While my chef/husband was always working, (hello busiest day of the year – no Mom wants to cook) we just chose another day to celebrate and that was that.
I have no idea why it never occurred to me that this would be a very hard day for so many women. My Mom lost her mother to cancer when I was 9 months old and my Dad lost his mother when I was 7. I’m sure all those Mother’s Days after they died were hard. But either I was oblivious and didn’t notice, or they did a pretty good job of hiding it from me. (more…)
10 on 10. . . A friend has challenged me to pick up my camera on the 10th day of every month and take 10 pictures, a picture every hour (approx.), to document the day.
So below is a quick glimpse into our day as a family of a chef. I say that because you’ll notice my chef/husband is only in one of these pictures, and it’s the picture of him on my cell phone. 🙁 It’s the day before Mother’s Day. He left around 6:30am this morning and still is not home as I write this (10:45pm). Lovely! Hopefully he’s on his way home soon!
I struggle with worrying so I decided to have my friend Jen over at Rustic Pine Designs make Philippians 4:6 into a sign to put up in our living room. As I sat in my favorite chair this morning, they were right in front of me. What a great reminder that no matter what comes my way, I have no reason to be anxious but just need to take it to God in prayer. Perfect way to start off the morning.
I am so in love with homemade honey yogurt right now. Again, I blame this on my chef/husband and his extensive research on making yogurt last year for a cooking video. I can’t seem to get enough of it. This was breakfast this morning, homemade honey yogurt with granola and strawberries, in a mason jar of course. (more…)
I’m not sure if this happens to anyone else, but things my chef/husband uses in the restaurant and menu items he’s developing end up in our kitchen. Sometimes it’s a salad dressing I wonder how I’ve ever lived without. Sometimes it’s cheesecake in a jar with lemon curd which I could eat 10 of in one sitting.
You might laugh and think I’m crazy, but can I tell you that I have spent entirely too much money this month trying to find the PERFECT pen to use when labeling a mason jar. And still haven’t found one that works perfect with condensation. (more…)
I am so excited to be hosting my first giveaway on Emulsified Family!
If you’ve browsed around my blog at all, you’ve probably seen my page on How to Clean a Chef Coat. If you haven’t, I would encourage you to take a peek. Go ahead, I can wait. 🙂
In November I was introduced to the Netepur Bar from H2O at Home and once I found out how well it worked to clean chef coats, have been obsessed with it (and all their other products) ever since.
Being married to a chef, washing chef coats is just part of my daily routine. Nothing ever seemed to really clean them well and my husband would have to buy new ones every few months, costing the restaurant money. I googled “How to Clean a Chef Coat” so many times, trying to find a product that would actually work.
Then I found the Netepur Bar.
I’m not the type of person that tends to go on and on about things I love, but after washing so many chef coats and being frustrated for so many years, when I actually found something that worked, it’s kind of hard to keep my mouth shut about it.(more…)
