For Mother’s Day I wanted to share an interview with my mom for everyone who doesn’t know her to get a little more insight on who she is and why she has made such a profound impact on my life. I know it’s not the most glamorous set up but I hope you can enjoy the interview for what it is. It’s a very special video for me that I will truly cherish for the rest of my life and let it be a reminder to myself on how to be a beacon of love and acceptance to everyone I encounter.

I cooked my brother his favorite meal for his birthday… Okay as you can tell from this video my family doesn’t have complete faith in me to cook a delicious meal unsupervised so I recruited my dad to help me out! I think the problem with my cooking abilities is that I always try to make everything healthy, with no real reference of what is actually replaceable in a recipe.

I am doing a Cookie-Thon for a charity event with Skip1 to raise money for schools around the world and feeding programs here in the US! I was asked to participate in sharing a recipe for the holidays and since I’m spending some time with my parents in Virginia, I decided to pull out my Grandma’s old cook book and find something old school to bake! I flipped to the cookie page and saw “Cream Cheese Cookies.” I thought, hell yeah.