Hello. My name is Elif and I am a Pinterest Addict. It has been 2 weeks since I last did a Pinterest Project. This is my story.... Easter was on the horizon, so of course I needed to do something fun and creative with the girls. I scoured Pinterest for cool egg decorating ideas and came up with 2 …
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The stories we tell ourselves
It is 4:15 on a Tuesday. There are so many things that I should be doing. I should be doing laundry. I should be figuring out dinner. I should take control of my house back from the recent ant invaders. I can't. I just need to write. I had a very angry day yesterday. Boy did I hold onto that with …
Mama, tell me a happy memory…
I am the memory keeper of the family, ever since I can remember. There are moments in my life that all I did was focus on the bad and what was done TO me. It wasn't a healthy place to be. As I mover further away from the past and move toward the future, I have begun to look fondly at the good …
Dear Huffpost, my family is not broken…
So true...so true... …
BookClub Blog: Stopping: How to be still when you have to keep going
Last September my brain was a tizzy with all this things I needed to accomplish through the fall. I was constantly on the move and I was making myself (and my friends) nuts. One day, I spent the morning at the local thrift store and something fell off the shelf, hit me in the head, and landed (face …