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Continue reading →: Homestead Dreams: Week 1A week into our planned micro/suburban homestead and we’ve got lots of changes around our little abode. First, we had our neighbor’s bitter melon herbs coming under the fence. Since we figured it would keep coming – and hey, free herbs! – we installed a lattice-type rail along our fence…
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Continue reading →: Homestead DreamsIt’s been about a year and a half since we bought our dream home in the suburbs. It’s been an interesting ride, because we were so focused on the big life goal of buying a home – against all the odds and expenses in the way – that we really…
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Continue reading →: Her PrayersI’ve always felt my grandmother’s prayers protecting me, as far back as my memory goes. I remember living at her house for a short while when we moved back to California; I remember her sweet smile, the smell of her kitchen, her wild, curly hair and always-coordinated outfits. I also…
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Continue reading →: It’s Giving GratitudeGratitude has long-been an annoyance to me – some entitled, aloof, elitist nonchalance that’s suspiciously easier to achieve for those with a trust fund. It’s been offered to me many wrong times and in many wrong ways (“be grateful for what you do have!”) and. often, by those that don’t…
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Continue reading →: Hale is Where the Heart isTo be honest, I did not honestly think we’d ever own our own hale, or home. I had high hopes for a condo, maybe even a nice townhouse, but single-family homes on Oahu are (and have mostly always been) crazy expensive. Even in this down market, the median sales price…
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Continue reading →: Becoming PolishedI’ve always loved yoga, but haven’t been committed to it for long enough to really feel its effects. Not flexibility or a deep breath or a strong core – but peace. Real peace. Inner peace. The kind of peace that does not come easy for most of us in the…
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Continue reading →: Easy Plant-Based BreakfastsI’m normally a grab-a-smoothie/protein shake/banana-on-the-way-out-the-door type gal, but pregnancy has made me so hungry that breakfast is back on my plate. My first meal tends to set the tone for the rest of the day, but I don’t have a ton of time to make anything amazing. I’ve come to…
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Continue reading →: An Active PregnancyBefore I got pregnant – or when I very first got pregnant – I was beyond naive. I signed up for a 10K and 1-miler on the same weekend (instead of the Honolulu Marathon, of course) and assumed I’d slowly and happily jog through them with my barely-present bump and…
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Continue reading →: Sustainability is Sexy – Food EditionIf 2020 taught us anything, it’s that we have very little control of the world around us. That makes things like New Year’s resolutions seem naive at best and obsolete at worst. Yet, here we are in a fresh, albeit still confounded, new year, and it feels impossible not to…
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Continue reading →: Lesson(s) Learned
If we’ve learned anything in the past six months, it’s that very, very, very little is in our control. We’re all helplessly embedded in the fabric of cities, towns, counties and countries, dependent on our neighbors near and far, and completely incapable of operating on our own. I always considered…
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I’m Nicole
Navigating motherhood, nourishing cooking, backyard gardening and running a small business with my little ohana on Oahu, Hawaii. Follow me as we build a suburban homestead, (try to) bake bread and steadily work towards a grown-at-home hale – all while intentionally raising kiddos and keeping our business growing.
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