Author: Manouri

My name is Manouri. I am a 46-year-old (almost 47!) Jesus follower, a wife of 25 years to an awesome man that I met when I was 13 years old, a mother of one incredible teen and one extraordinary tween, a marketing professional for an inspiring company and a lifestyle blogger who is chasing the fountain of youth. I don’t look my age, I certainly don’t act my age, and most times, I don’t feel my age.

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Do you know that raspberry vodka tastes good with everything?

Since I was temporarily laid off almost three weeks ago, I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning and organizing around the house. I’d feel like a total failure if I went back to work on July 2 and my house still looked like it did in March. I’ve GOT to show some domestic improvement for all this time off, right? Or is this just my mother-in-law inside my head?

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If you read my About Me intro, you know that this blog was supposed to start a long time ago. The heat and humidity of Ontario last summer made me put my blog away, but many other things caused me to not start it up again for several months. One of the reasons I didn’t was because I thought that other women would judge me for the things I posted about. It’s really hard to put yourself out there this way. Starting this blog, I talked to many women who said they’d love to start a blog, but they were scared or nervous to put themselves out there for fear of being judged or criticized.

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