If you late on the Christmas thing too

I only started my Christmas shopping yesterday and I still don't have wrapping paper or tags yet. I'm a tad bit behind on Christmas this year. I do have a gigantic roll of brown paper from my Fashion Design days so will be using that with ribbon and washy tape. I am an avid Pinterest user, not many of my Pins come to life but I have tons of ideas I love. Here are some for Christmas wrapping and a few extra for some more ideas for Christmas day meals.

These tags below you can print from Just Love Design, I am using the White ones, to pretty and too simply!

Here are some things I am hoping to try and some things I wish I had the ability to get right, inside my head I am a fantastic baker and cook, but my hands don't coordinate with my brain for some reason.

Decor I am good at, designing how a room and a table should look I can do, going to try some of these this year.

Love from Bear

Roasted Garlic & Rosemary Pumpkin Hummus

Since being diagnosed with Insulin Resistance I have tried a few things out and Hummus is something I'm allowed and is something I have actually learned to love. This is a different spin on the traditional Hummus but it is divine!


Try it out for your pre-dinner snacks with veggies or crisps.

INGREDIENTS

• 1-2 cloves roasted garlic (see #1)

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• 2 tablespoons water

• 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed

• ⅔ cup pumpkin puree

• 1 tablespoon maple syrup or honey

• ½ teaspoon finely minced fresh rosemary (more to taste) salt to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

1. To roast the garlic, I like to simmer the peeled cloves in a small saucepan with olive oil for 15-20 minutes over low/medium heat. The garlic gets the roast-y flavor and then you get some bonus garlic infused olive oil out of the deal. Bam.
2. Puree all ingredients except rosemary in a blender or food processor until smooth. Add more oil or water as needed. Stir in the rosemary (I found that the blender didn’t really like the tough rosemary pieces in there so I just stirred it in at the end).
3. Serve with warm naan, apple slices, crackers, carrots, wheat toast, roasted vegetables, pita bread, and/or anything in the world.

Love from Bear

P.S I got the recipe from Pinch of Yum

The Beginning

Bear = a nickname only the closest of closest people call me, it's a name that represents who I once was and who I am still deep down inside somewhere.

I am a 'single' mom to a 2 year old little boy, we have just moved in with the love of my life and my life is finally falling into place. This space is my space, a space for me to find myself again, it's my time out and about my journey about sometimes putting me first.

Some where along the line of being a mommy I have forgotten who I am and lost what I loved in life. So now I pick up the pieces, rebuild them and reshape who I am as a mother, a daughter, a sister and a lover but most importantly who I am as me.

There will be pieces on being a mommy and pieces on being in a relationship, there will be pieces on new things to do and try, pamper products and easy and quick ways to make yourself feel good again, there will even be recipes, healthy recipes of course as I have recently been diagnosed with Insulin Resistance and seeing as I am no cook or baker, only recipes for dummies will be placed here.

I will be open and honest but bare in mind this is supposed to be my happy place so sometimes it will be overly fluffy but with a little bit of a twist and pieces on my diagnosis of Bi-polar disorder.

I have had two blogs before, starting as Miss Preggy and then From There to Hear, both will be shut down as they hold on to so much of the bad things that have happened in my life. Things and people that I have chosen to forgive and let go of.

So here's to finding my happiness and awakening my soul and seeing life through new eyes.

Love from Bear