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For the Love of Food

I absolutely love food! Like seriously I had weight loss surgery because I LOVE FOOD!! I love trying new recipes and trying different things at restaurants. I can literally leave any of the different food channels on all day. I am no food expert I haven’t taken any kind of food/ cooking classes I am just me trying new things. 


When I was a kid my dad loved to cook. My parents would throw huge parties. We would have our annual Summer Round-Up and a Christmas Party. These parties would have 100+ people coming and my dad would cook everything….yes my dad made all the food. He loved trying new recipes and sharing them with all the friends and family that would come to these parties. Now for me I took up baking first. Dad had the cooking in the house so I decided I would try my hand at baking. I would say I was 15 we where in Monterey, California. We had gone to the aquarium and then headed to the outlet stores. There was a kitchen store there we would always have to go to. This time I found a Wilton magazine and I was looking through it and thought cake decorating would be fun. So I showed my dad and I told him I wanted to try. He bought me the magazine, a cake pan and a beginner set of piping tips with bags. The deal was he would buy it but I had to actually try to do it. I tried and fell in love my first was just a plain layered cake with some piping on it. Then I made Winnie the Pooh. 


Now jump to 18 I had gone to a few Pampered Chef Parties and well I thought I knew enough with Kitchen stuff that i could sell it. I joined Pampered Chef and realized I was in the Cooking department and not the baking department! I might have tried for 1 year and gave it up. Fast forward a bit I am now married with a baby on the way we are already eating better and not going out as much. Cooking more at home saving money and trying new recipes. I now not only bake and have definitely improved my decorating skills. But I am now really getting into cooking. Baby #1 arrives in May and by August I decided I was ready to try Pampered Chef again. I now know what all those different things are used for and thinking this is a good way to make some extra income and hopefully get to the point I can stay at home and raise my own kid.

Four years later I am still at it. I love these products I’m not rich from it by any means but I do love what I do with it and I’m not trying to give it up any time soon. I just want to share it with all of you fabulous people. Seriously these products are awesome. I will be sharing products and recipes here. You can check out my website and order or let me know if you have any questions.

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The Dream!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about if I could do anything what would it be? I’ve worked 14 years for a major retail company it has always been a job something to pay the bills until I can finally do what I really want. I was not able to return to my job after maternity leave because I ended up with a slip disk. Thankfully about a year and a half ago I got my Real Estate license. I like the IDEA of real estate. My husband and I have already talked about buying properties to flip or rent. So this ended up being a great idea. When I got my license I started to wean myself out of my other job. I was a department manager so when I say wean I started to cut back my hours and training my replacement and then the last month I gave up control let my replacement be the full blown boss but I was still there for incase something happened that we hadn’t gone over. January 2018 I quit that job and went to put some real time in Real Estate. I knew it was going to be hard but I didnt realized how hard. Both financially and in general getting business. I was a few weeks in when I realized I was pregnant! Hahahah I just quit my job that payed well and had insurance (double covered because hubby worked there too) and started a career in real estate a commission job that I had no real idea what I was doing or where to start. I gave it three months and then bit the bullet and went back to the job doing something else I had learned a lot in the years I was there and I could work 7 out of 10 departments there. Totally disappointed but will always do what I have to for my family.

Okay back to end of maternity leave and my job which is very very physical told me NO bring a note releasing me back (which wasn’t going to happen). Now I’m screwed what am I going to do I have a few at home jobs that I hadn’t worked while I was on leave. I could make a little bit of money from them but not enough for us to survive. I got a group email from my Broker saying the Property Management department is hiring. That they needed a Leasing Agent and that position is a Licensed Realtor position (things happen for a reason!). Hand shot up “oh me pick me!!!” Wait Hi Hello I’m a licensed Realtor. And I’m semi jobless! Anyways I interviewed and they picked me and it’s a great learning opportunity I love it and new things are coming from it. But, is this my dream? 

I dont know about you but there are so many places around the world I want to see. But how can I afford it? Where to start? What to see? I follow so many travel pages on different social media sites and all that does is make my list of places even bigger! One of my favorite things I did was I became a Travel Agent. Now I get to learn all about travel. I can take classes from a travel vendor and I get great discounts when I book my trip. Yes I did just says I take free classes learn about travel and then I get discounts on my trips with that vendor! I also get to help my friends and family book their trip and get paid for doing it. Now you think I’m taking advantage of my friends and family and jacking up the price? Nope the prices already have a commission built into it. So there is no up-charge it mostly is the same price as they would find shopping them selves or I get them a better price and they have the benefit of someone else doing the work for them. I know what you are needing for your trip so there are no surprises and less stress.

The Dream. Call me crazy but I want to travel the world and I want to take my family with me! Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Maldives, Morocco, Switzerland, Dubai, and so many more. I want my boys to be well traveled I want them to enjoy as much as possible. I know as the littles they wont really remember but as they get older I want airplanes to be normal to them and not cause havoc while on them. 

This section of my blog will be travel everything!! it will be my family travel and also travel advise and information dont forget im a travel agent and i love to learn! 

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Welcome!

Hi!!! I’m Jenn Welcome to my blog!! I am a wife and mother. I have a 3 year old and a newborn. I have been married for 8 crazy years. My husband and I are an interesting mix. We are fun going, trash talking jokesters. We live in the San Fransisco Bay area.

So about me I think the best way to describe me is I am someone still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I believe that you only live once and there are things I want to do before I am gone. This is part of the reason for the name Jittery Jenn. When I told my husband I was thinking about starting a blog I was a bit nervous I honestly thought he was gonna kinda make fun of me or give me the are you crazy look but he actually thought it was a good idea *wipe sweat off brow*. I’m very defensive when I want too do something. Anyways after getting over the shock of him thinking I should start a blog I was trying to think of names, So I again went to the person who knows me best and I was telling him I need a name thats me, creative, will draw peoples attention and easy to remember. I was telling him some of my ideas that I liked but they just weren’t right and he was like how about Jittery Jenn? If you stick around you will really understand why this is so perfect for me but in short I’m crazy hyper do 20 million things all at the same time and I really wish they made coffee in an IV form!!

I am a new Realtor, I enjoy cooking and trying new recipes, trying new wines although my hubby is on a strict your nursing so don’t even think about it mood *sad*, we love love love to travel and now my son is getting to the age where we can work on arts and crafts!!!

I am so happy you all are here and can’t wait for you all to get to know me better!