Taking Stock: Warm Winter 2020

Hey lovelies!🤗

Can you believe it's already July?🤯

If you'd asked me at the beginning of the year I would've never imagined typing this in the time that we are now. But I'm grateful that I'm alive, well and able to do it anyway.😊 So let's go straight into it yeah?

Making: Plans. I've been so good at staying indoors and social distancing but really, I'm done with it now. 😂 I'm ready to go back outside.

Baking: Cookies! 😍🤤 Did you guys see my recipe for the best cookies here? The only time we don't have them in the house is when I'm low on supplies.😅

Drinking: Water, the answer is always going to be water. 😂

Craving: Dates and quality time.😭

I just want to spend time with my people. In person. Texting and calling has been fun and all but I'm ready for the hugs and seeing the smiles. And most importantly, eating food off their plates. 😂

Corantine cookies

Hey Lovelies!🤗

I don't know about you but like everyone and their sister I've been doing a little (ok, a lot) of baking while I've had all this extra time at home and it's been so good for me. 😍 Food is truly my love language.

And while I know I already have a couple of cookie recipes up on here, they were a little on the smaller side. Plus it's been a while since I created something from scratch.

Best 👏🏾 idea👏🏾 ever!👏🏾

What I created was this huge cookie that is a blend of chewy and crunchy. It's delicious warm or cold. And it can be switched up to fit whatever you'd like to go in it.😁 So far I've stuffed them with peanut butter and chocolate chips. Who knows what I'll go with next. I'll probably start putting mini versions of it on cakes/cupcakes soon bc it's that good!🤤

The great thing is, you can make a whole batch of cookie dough, put them in the freezer and bake them in bits as the craving hits you. 😉 

You know I have to share them with you.

I hope you love them as much as I do.

Please, send me pictures or tag @bakersheartzm on Instagram when you post your creations.

Bisous!

X

P.s what's your favourite Corantine snack?

On Learning and Unlearning...

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." ESV

You think you've done all the (physical) growing that you do when you become an adult and life laughs in your face. 😩 There are a few things in life that are constant and growth is definitely one of them.

I'm one of those people that has always been excited about growth. Growing taller, growing older, growing wiser and definitely growing spiritually. But no one seems to prepare you for emotional growth. The kind of growth that comes with growing pains like you wouldn't believe. Growth that causes you to go through a period of learning and unlearning. Choosing exactly who it is you want to be and realising that you need to grow on your own, but also that you have to grow with the various relationships in your life. And boy is that a tough one, especially if you're keen on growth while the people around you are set on staying in the same place. Or, if you think you've grown enough in a certain place and then you're placed in a situation where you realise that's definitely not the case.🤦🏾‍♀️

Taking stock: Corantine 2020

Hey lovelies!
Happy Easter 🤗

How crazy is it that the first quarter of 2020 is already done? 🤯 It was just last year that I was counting down to this year and now it's flying past. So while we all have time to read/write I thought I'd do a quick reflection of how I'm doing at the end of it and start this next one on the right foot.😅 Here we go:

Making: So much progress with my studying.
Come on productivity!🥳💃🏾

Cooking/Baking: Pancakes and dessert french toast bc dessert and breakfast foods are my absolute favourites! 😍🤤Did you get the chance to snag the recipe yet?

Drinking: Water, the answer is always going to be water. 😂

Craving: Outside 😭 and I know everyone knows what I mean when I say that.😅 I've been making a list of everywhere I want to go eat once they open outside again cause oomf shaded me about being indecisive.🤣

Faith, Self Isolation Pancakes and other stories

All around the world right now Covid-19 is being spoken about. What started a bad flu making it's rounds in China last October and progressed to cases of pneumonia in December quickly showed itself to be the Corona virus that has spread to all corners of the globe. It has scientists working their hardest to find information on it, health workers in battle against the increasing number of cases they have to treat and governments trying their hardest to keep their people safe. But at the heart of it all is people like you and me who are essential in stopping the spread, once and for all.

How do we do this?
Well, we wash our hands, sanitize, avoid unnecessary contact with other people and most important of all, if you can, stay home. After all home is the safest place you can be, surrounded by all the people you love. I know that's where I've been for the last week.😅

It may seem like the world has stopped, all our favourite things are cancelled, and the media is just out to instil fear in us but that's so far from the truth. There are so so many things that we can get up to and because we have the love of God in us there's no need to be afraid. His perfect love drives away all fear.😍 (1 John 4:18)

An Attitude of Gratitude...

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul"
- Henry Ward Beecher

I posted the picture above on my Instagram at the beginning of the year and asked my followers a question: "what is your word for the year?"

As you can obviously guess from the title, mine is gratitude. And while it may seem like a relatively easy one I can tell you now it definitely isn't, especially in a social climate like the one we're living in right now.

I'm not exactly sure when it happened but I stopped writing down resolutions for the year.🤔 Not cause I was boycotting them or anything, but just cause by the time the end of the first quarter came round most of those resolutions had been broken or done away with. And that was quite disheartening. So instead, I decided to go with a theme or a phrase that would help direct my year and encourage me to apply it to all the things that I attempted or went through in the process of it. And I can tell you now that it's definitely changed how I live. 😄