I am a working mamma who, like most mammas multitasks endlessly – sometimes to the point of collapse. I usually wake up between 4-5 am to prep meals and take care of a few household chores before starting the workday. Exhausting, but necessary to ensure that the puzzle pieces of the day all fit into place.

As a working mom, I have found it easy to neglect caring for my feet. With the never-ending to-do list, I can never seem to find time to care for some of my basic self-needs. So, the foot-care has been the first to get placed on the backburner. However, I am attempting a different approach. As I find my dry and cracked feet inadvertently scratching and scraping me as I toss and turn at night - I thought it would be best to start some care for my feet.

Growing up in Hong Kong, Halloween was not celebrated as it is in North America, at least it wasn't in the 1990s. I never went from apartment-to-apartment trick or treating nor I do not ever recall any kids getting dressed to collect or hand out candy. In fact, I did not realize the reality of trick or treating until I made a few friends from North America. And while I enjoyed my scary movies like Freddy Krueger, Chucky, Poltergeist, and the Shining - Halloween was never a thing in my circle.I was well in my late teens before I even heard a Halloween related story in Hong Kong. And it was a good one - in the late 1990s a group of folks dressed in costumes went to Lai Kwai Fong to bar hop and celebrate Halloween.  One of the individuals was dressed like a local prisoner - the local police monitoring the area thought it was a prisoner that had escaped and arrested the individual. Hilarious and ridiculous all at once... it even made it on the evening news!

It is officially fall here in the Mid-Atlantic and I could not be more excited.  As I sit in my four seasons room writing this inaugural post, I am greeted with the fall colors from my window, and I am in complete awe.