Good morning. 

It's morning in Yaoundé but if you are in the afternoon or evening then I greet you according to your time. 

I hope you are doing well. As for me I'm fine. God has been good to me and I thank him for everything. 

In my last post I shared that we moved to a new apartment; guys it's been a big change and I'm adapting to it bit by bit. I've been overall heavy to unpack and really organise the house but I can't blame myself at the same time. The beginning of this year has been hard on me mentally and emotionally so I feel the need to rest and relax. And this is difficult to do because I feel like I need to catch up with a lot. 

This feeling was reflected in the day of yesterday. 

Waking up yesterday morning my plan was to go to the market early enough to buy ingredients for Ekwang: which I did despite the rainy-cold weather and the muddy market. But when I got home, I kept pushing the cooking for later. First I told myself we have had breakfast so I can wait a little, then I discovered we could have some leftover rice for supper so cooking can wait till evening and finally by evening I had other plans to rearrange the kitchen. LoL. And that's how night came without me cooking anything. 

Related: The best Ekwang recipe in Cameroon 

The main reason for pushing cooking for later was because I wanted to complete the brainstorming for my content creation strategy. And I'm glad that at the end of the day after dinner and putting the kids to bed, I was able to come up with something. And I want to use this opportunity to ask you guys what you think about my content when you look at my blog in general? Do you find I'd helpful, entertaining or informative? What do you like the most about my blog? 

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At the end of the day I felt productive because my brainstorming session was complete and the cooking plans were transferred to the next day with relieve. 

I only realized that I didn't take pictures of the Ekwang ingredients while I was uploading these pictures. 

And also as someone who fights for the protection of the environment, I felt bad having some of my items being put in plastic bags despite me taking a shopping bag. At some point everything you buy in the market can't be mixed up in the bag so it's hard to avoid using these single use plastic even when you are environmental conscious. It honestly made me feel bad and I think this is where we need decisions to be made by our leaders to opt for an environmental friendly alternative so that we don't face the difficulty of avoiding plastic in our everyday lives. 

You can read more about my journey and work on environmental protection here: 

I'm going to cook my Ekwang after I publish this post and I have some organisation to do with our clothes. Right now we don't have a wardrobe and finding something to wear is such a challenge when the clothes are mixed. 

Ok guys that's it for now, I'll talk to you later. 

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Hope you are doing well. 

It's time for a new beginning and I'm excited to say that we moved to a new apartment. 

This is the second apartment we are moving to. I expected to live for at least five years in the previous apartment but life happened and we had to move. 

I love this new place and I look forward to making good memories in it in Jesus' name, Amen. 

We are still unpacking and settling in so it's still not very organized. Here is a tour of the empty apartment. I will share the organization process and progress in subsequent posts. 

Thanks for being here and I'll see you in the next one.