Eclectic Lotus

By Airmaxjunkie1 The planning has begun for Thanksgiving! I woke up this morning with the intention to gather what I am making over a four day cooking and cleaning fest! I have tried my hardest to incorporate our different dishes into Thanksgiving with some interesting findings. 1- My husband only cares about the bird. 2- I am all about the side dishes. 3- DON'T MESS WITH MY DOG SHOW!!! 4- My son loves to watch me cook and help. 5- I love adding soul food but can I remove the meat? If you are vegan or vegetarian and this is your first holiday it is quite frustrating! All the traditions that you have grown up to love come with the thought of. . .say goodbye to them. Out of the six years I have been a vegetarian this is not true. You can even add some fun items to the mix. Here are some links and recipes that I will be adding to our meal line-up. Kale Greens 1/4 cup water 12 cups kale, washed and coarsely chopped 1 cup chopped onion 1 tablespoon garlic powder ...

I love November! I am not 100% sure why I love November but the fact that the end of the month is almost a reflection of things to be thankful for as well as learning new recipes! When my mother was alive, I would call her and get the scoop on all the traditional family recipes. She would get so mad when I called her and say, "Why don't you know all this? Why do you keep calling me?" I would have to answer, "Because you kicked me out the kitchen." This November, I want to try and begin learning great Vegan recipes- soul food recipes. Because I love to record them on here I will try my very best and post them on this blog as well as give references on where to get these recipes. You would think living in Chicago- a meat and potato city there would be little to no vegetarian and vegan restaurants but that is far from the truth. This month, because I am still "gathering" my data I will post some of the best vegetarian restaurants in the city. What ...

Taken from mompopculture pin but no longer a website.  I actually saved this pin on pinterest but recently noticed that the whole site was taken down. I wondered why I had this because my son is pretty trendy. . . So, now that you know where we are here is a list of great clothes that I have bought for my son and they actually were not *that* pricey. 1. Nordstrom Rack    I simply love this place for Thanksgiving and Christmas clothes. I will only get one item and I usually let him pick his own clothing which has been a treat because he actually has pretty good taste November 2015- Nautica sweater, button up shirt and gold corduroy slacks. Brown boots from believe it or not, thrift store 2. Old Navy    I recently saw a blog of a celebrity who had a gorgeous picture of her daughter and said the outfit was from Old Navy and I wasn't shocked. They have an excellent selection for boys will truly exercise my credit card when we go in there. I buy ...

*cocks imaginary gun* WHO SENT YOU!? I post my job on famous job sites and sure enough, there it is! The mass amount of e-mails from "recruiters" and "people from HR" in high seeking companies that want to interview me. It has been an interesting ride the past 6 months as this has gotten much worse. I thought I would post it on here to let you know that if you see this, DON'T DO IT!!!! 1. You received two e-mails     The scammers are getting better and better at breaking through the spam mail. I recently got an email from a secretary who had pretty bad grammar. She wanted to let me and a group of people in an e-mail thread know that her boss wanted to interview us on a great opportunity. The job was a remote job that paid up to $113k per year. Her boss emailed me three days later and wanted my skype info for an interview. I looked up the company. It was legit. I looked up the man ready to employ me which I will give- Doug Ahrens. His information was legi...

I ain't playing! I hate them! They are necessary for my functioning existence. Any mom will tell you this but. . . do I really HAVE to have a set schedule? My son functions better on them. My daughter sleeps well with them. I can get much more accomplished with them. Whether or not I hate or love them, I do them throughout the day and week. I may adore spontaneity but a home can't function on that- a budding love affair can though. Says the woman who used to get surprise visits from *then* boyfriend at home or at a friend's home with *that look* in his eyes. (Shocked that it took me this long to have his babies. LOL!) The problem that occurs with me is that I do not have time to sit down and literally schedule creating my schedule. On top of that, I would lose my mind trying to keep up with keeping up with a schedule. If you do something 17 times, it becomes routine. There is my advice since I am not following my own advice. Learn from my flaws. LOL!

It is three days into Autumn and since the eclipse we have been getting our S together! The living room looks less like a brown explosion. The light fixtures in the living room have been replaced. All while I have been out doing odd Chiropractic jobs and writing jobs, studying for real estate, looking for homes, getting odd seasonal colds, etc. I have rarely had the opportunity to get on facebook for a while as the computer is getting slow from all the memory being used. The biggest thing I have done is take most of my shoes and donated them. It was a sad day because if you know me, you know I am a fanatic for shoes. HEELS!!! Sadly, I don't have many cute shoes for my daughter to inherit. Eh, fads change and it would be more of a joke for her to wear my rainbow platform slingbacks as I did with my mother's black rhinestone platform sandals from the 70's. Also, my mother threw her shoes in the closet and it was a mountain of shoes. I promised myself never to do that which ...

You sit here and pet my kid's head after less than one minute of speaking. I don't know you. My child is not a little dog that you can pet. I am sorry but do not touch my children. I am having a bit of a problem with. . .I hate to say this. . .white people speaking to me about my multicultural family and then proceeding to touch my children. When it is a white person speaking to another person that they don't know that happens to be white I see less petting like a dog. Yes, may be I am thinking too much about this but then again the sins of the past still run deep especially when you are reminded daily that you are not white. I wish that I could say that because my children are black but this is not true. I have seen white people not pat the heads of black children and may be I need to get out more and find more black children. May be there are black kids that are getting this treatment. I am only hearing about this from mothers that have multicultural children. Some re...