My first post!
I guess I should start out with a short introduction of myself.
I was born in Japan, grew up in the United States for most of my life.
I’m a mom, a wife, an artist, a cook. I love the idea of reducing my carbon footprint in this world, so I try very hard to have our family be as green as possible.
I cook with mostly Organic ingredients, because I believe that it is healthier for my family and I also think it tastes better. But there are a lot of obstacles, being green. One of the biggest hurdle for me is the amount of green (money) you have to dish out to buy things that are supposedly GREEN. Organic food is a bit more pricey, so I mainly concentrate on getting all dairy, meats, and eggs organic, but the rest I try.
My daughter is almost 3 and it’s awesome to be able to stay home and raise her to speak Japanese. English is my first language, but I do speak Japanese fluently as well. My husband is American and his Japanese is not as good as my daughters. It is very important to me that she grows up bilingual. I really would like her to know her heritage, language and all.
Being an artist, taking care of a baby-toddler, took away one of the most important thing in my life, which is being creative. We decided for me to stay home because I wasn’t comfortable in leaving my child with a stranger, after interviewing an at home day care that the owners husband was arrested for child molestation charges the year before. I’m sure there are plenty of good day cares out there, but if the first one you interview is the one I did, you would do the same.
Anyway, being crafty with a little one is not easy… Actually it can’t happen. So I started cooking and baking A LOT. This turned into my creative outlet, plus we are a single income family, so we have to cook at home every night. $100 feeds the 3 of us for a week( lunch & dinner). I will have a lot of these recipe’s and menus on the site to inspire people to eat at home.
Now that my daughter is a little bit bigger, she gives me time to relax now that I’ve just started to sew a bit again. Which is so exciting!
I had really bad postpartum depression, that I finally just started to come out of at the end of last year. I did not take any medication, and I feel that I have truly kicked this depression at the core. My husband is the greatest. I can’t even express in words how grateful I am for how supportive he is through all of this. I’m so lucky.
So, this is who I am in a nutshell. Through this blog I will be sharing things and thoughts that I find that help my life be happier.
Enjoy! ようこそ(welcome)
I can’t wait!!
Hi Asa,
It is exciting to know that a fellow mama is doing some things that make her life successful and peaceful!!
In response to your focus on being green, I wanted to bring up some local farmers and ideas to possibly save you some money if you don’t already know about them. For one, I am joining a food co-op this month which can get you all of the items at whole foods/food patch but at cheaper prices. The only thing is that most of the items are in pretty large quantities. Also, there is Creswick Farms that is a great local source for most meat items and a dairy/beef family near the thumb of Michigan that delivers biweekly. Both of the farms are grass fed/pasture raised. Let me know if you want more info…
Send kisses to Anzu and John from the Hogans’…
Thanks Cat!
I would like to check into that Creswick Farms thing. Let me know more!!
Awesome! I’m looking forward to reading your blog.
I love it so far! These are all things I’m interested in as well. Green, Sewing, Mothering, Cooking!! I wish I was a stay at home mom! Freelance is the closest I can come to it.
Looking forward to your postings!