I thought my family and I might benefit from a detox after the holidays, seeing as how much food we ate in a short space of time. Babe, let’s skip meat for two weeks...” If you’re thinking my husband’s face drained of colour, you’re absolutely right. My husband loves him some chicken. As anticipated, we [...]
The national Christmas drink in Jamaica is Sorrel. Period. I like my sorrel dark, strongwomen and spicy. I thought I would share how to make Jamaican sorrel drink in time for you to enjoy some over the holidays. Even though we drink it year-round, there's nothing better than a well-chilled glass of sorrel to accompany [...]
One of the things that have eluded me year after year since becoming a mother is structure. ;m a mom and I dont have a I want to structure a home routine with a four-year-old. It’s not that I haven’t tried. I just so often found that things were better for my immediate sanity when [...]
I am not now, nor have I ever been a breakfast person, but if I was, a 5 minute breakfast is exactly what I would be making. In fact, I used to fully hate having breakfast so much, I would dodge my mother in the mornings to avoid having breakfast or tea. She’d turn her [...]
What would you tell your younger self? That is the question of centuries old. The hashtag #By23 had me thinking about all the ways I struggled as a young adult, particularly during University. https://twitter.com/ShandeanReid/status/1307069155049435148?s=20 A few months ago there was a #By23 hashtag trending on Twitter. The origin of the trend was political, nevertheless, the [...]
I was listening to a podcast and the topic of discussion was centred around a young woman who said that she was single until she was married due to …Single Til Married?
This year has has been a whirlwind from start to this point. When the year started, I’d launch a daily newsletter and so I was in tune with the world news in a way I hadn’t before. By the time the Puerto Rico earthquakes happened, Australia had been on fire for months, the world looked [...]
Hey guys! I thought I’d do something a little bit different with this blog and share household items and products I’ve been loving and using for some…Cleaning Favorites – The Jamaican Edition Pt 1
So, even though COVID is rampant, the one thing my family can still look forward to is Christmas. I will have Christmas, dammit! The nice clean house, the Christmas beats, the movies, and most importantly, the food. Of course, as Jamaicans, one of the bigger aspects of our culture is food. Christmas dinner to us [...]
Who does want fresher, brighter laundry? It’s the holidays and we know as Jamaicans, Christmas cyah keep inna dutty house.Translation: We can’t celebrate Christmas in a dirty house. One of the consequences of ‘spring’ cleaning is a throng of laundry, stemming from changing curtains, tablecloths, coverings and whatever else you can name. It comes as [...]
Movies, are part of what makes the season special. As a youngster, my sister’s and watched most of the classic Christmas movies together, even if I’ve grown up and traded them for the cheesy ones on Netflix. Still, Christmas magic never leaves and the movie light a warm candle in our hearts or enrich our [...]
lI've been living with migraines since I was 15 year-old. When the are perpetual, they are called chronic migraines. Chronic migraines are defined by frequency, and are recognised to be having at least 15 headache days a month, with at least 8 days of having headaches with migraine features, for more than 3 months. I [...]
I did it, after one year of transitioning, I did the big chop! I’m newly natural! I know you’ve seen it by now in my last post, so let’s talk about it. Boy, did this post age like milk! So, I had my last relaxer on November 23, 2019. It wasn’t my intention to go [...]
Clearly, I'm crazy. Head gone, clean! And why is that, you ask? Well, because, I, me... Shandean has decided that in the year of our Lord, 2020 and chaos, I'm going to take on the beast that is Vlogmas. You're thinking that's not so bad, but hold the thought, Goodie has decided to attempt it, [...]
Today (well, not today but on the day I started writing this blog post), as I toiled away spring cleaning the stove, a thought popped into my head. As per usual when these things happen, the thought nagged and refused to leave until I’d pressurized it and beaten it into oblivion with my mental broom. [...]
This morning, as I made myself my second cup of coffee, I got to thinking, coffee at hotels are really awful. I don’t know why that thought came to me but yea it did so I decided to pen this short talk. Today is World Mental Health Day. Who decided these days anyway? Seems there [...]
Last night, for the longest time in 'I don't know how long' I spent about three hours on Skype with two girlfriends. We talked. A lot. About many, many things including social media and perception. As the conversation grew wings and took on varying subject matters, I listened to how they felt about perception, online [...]
Patriarchy, in all its wisdom and dictation has throughout history projected sex (between partners of opposite sex) as an act to be performed on or to women with little thought to their satisfaction. This lead to the universal understanding that sex was either for procreation or to service the male counterpart’s pleasure and basic need [...]
Being married to a doctor is brutal. Even more so when said doctor is a resident. From the time my husband and I started dating, his professional path was something that I took honest consideration about, among other things. Not to be a brat, but as someone who was a student nurse myself once upon [...]
You won’t believe this, but I bought the first bottle of sunflower oil based on a tweet that said something about oil lifting boobs. I’m not gonna lie, I had barely B-Cup boobs pre-pregnancy, and during breastfeeding found myself busting out of a D-Cup. Now I am back to a barely B-Cup after breastfeeding for [...]
Hey, WordPress clan. I thought we might try having a social tonight. If you are among the members of my blog’s community, I’d like to get to know you better. I’m Shandean. I’m a toddler mom, the wife of perpetually tired resident, writer and entrepreneur trying to figure it all out. Follow me on Instagram [...]
I celebrated my birthday this past weekend at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort & Spa. When the shit hit the fan in March and everything recreational went into lockdown, I wondered if it would carry through until August. Common sense said most likely it would, and though my birthdays are usually spent pretty low-key and [...]
I know this topic is discussed to death and there are opposing ideas on whether parents should put the children first in a marriage. I’m sure you can tell by the title of this post where my head is, but I would like to share my position and train of thought on a more in [...]
By ‘I’ I mean we, as in my husband and I. I want some of the good coffee you guys have down here. That's what a friend of mine who lives up the street says when he jokes about wanting some coffee when he comes by. He will get some sometimes, but other times refuse [...]
I have been working from home with a toddler since 2017. For most people, Covid 19 and the resulting work from home order sent parents into a tailspin. Even for people who work from home with older children, they're used to being able to send that child off to school or daycare, even if it's [...]
