Aloha!  It's been a month since my last post.  Pregnancy gives me up & down moods on pretty much everything.  All I want to do lately isNAP.  Today I wanna share my crib project. 

To better keep an eye on our new baby, I decided to make room for her in our bedroom.  Besides, I want my 8 year old daughter to enjoy her room a little longer to herself.  Our room is so small that I was just going to get a bassinet next to our bed.  Then I learned that there is such thing as mini-crib.  Mini crib width measures about 41 inches vs 55 inches for the standard crib.  I measured our bedroom, and mini-crib fits perfectly next to our bed!

My mom bought and cooked longganisa for breakfast one weekend, and it was such a torture for me to watch her and Kaylee devour it with garlic fried rice. Since I'm pregnant, I have to stay away from it because of preservatives esp. sodium nitrate/nitrite. If you've been pregnant or been around pregnant women, you would know that once we want something esp. food, WE WANT IT!  I figured the only way to have it is to make it myself without preservatives.  It was so easy that I wished I thought of it before.

Longganisa (pronounced as long-ga-nee-sa) is a Filipino style sausage.  Its taste/style varies from region to region.

Hello hello!  Today I want to share the project I did a year ago, so this post is long overdue... This is on "How to make your own Monogrammed Plaque."

I've always wanted to put something personalized in front of our house.  At first, I thought about putting our last name on our mailbox, but I thought maybe that's too much information.  I got so excited with the thought of monogrammed plaque maybe over our front door.  I found a lot of nice monogrammed overdoor plaque online, but I had one problem with them.  The prices range from $120-$190 plus shipping and handling to Hawaii.  Yikes!

I had to think of a way to get it cheaper. While I was at Ross, I had this brilliant idea. (light bulb!!!) I bought this decorative cast iron wall thingy in rusty black, then went to Ben Franklin's to buy a wooden letter G.

Stir fry is the way to go when you have a little bit of this and that in your fridge. There are probably hundreds of versions of stir fry. As for my case, I make stir fry when I want clean my fridge or save veggies from getting bad.

As for this particular stir fry I made the other night, here are the ingredients:

Beef 1.5 lbs - sliced into strips
Garlic, 3 cloves - minced
Onion, 1 small - chopped
Green onions, 3 strands - cut into 1 in.
Asparagus, 1 lb. - cut into 1 in. spears
Carrots, 3 small - cut into strips
Red bell pepper, 1 - cut into strips
Olive oil, 2 tablespoons
Hoisin sauce, 1 tablespoon
Soy sauce, 1 tablespoon
Salt & pepper to taste

Entertaining our nephew and his girlfriend from New York this week gave me a jump start.  Taking them around the island (Oahu) reminded me of how much Hawaii and LIFE has to offer.  It inspired me all over again.  While a lot of people are enduring the freezing winter, we are here in Hawaii enjoying the sun and rainbows.  That is definitely something to cheer about and be thankful for.