As a boy mom of 5 and wife to a Law Enforcement officer— our lives are jam-packed with joy…but also its hard not to go a little pupule (crazy). So as I went searching for the calm in our created chaos earlier on in motherhood, I prioritized my mental wellness and found my best, most favorite self as a mother and wife was a byproduct of simply being outside.

Connecting to ʻāina (land) and wai (water), nurturing that pilina (relationship), and then modeling it for my babies in the only way I knew how...via solo-parent missions.

Is it easier to wait for "help with the kids" to do anything outside of the house? YES.

Are we built that way? NOPE.

I just wanted to go on all the huakaʻi with my honeybabies!

I was determined to simplify our daily loads and figure out ways to make our ʻāina adventures + beach days easier because nothing was going to stop us from our holoholo dreams.

Buuuuut also, no more rainbows and unicorn blankets or kāne-focused products from big box stores.

Allllll this to say,

We're built for Hawaiʻi, cuz we from Hawaiʻi.

For Pasefika, from Pasefika.

Das it.