Stephanie Kalawai'anui

Sunday = Family Day

Real talk: I wear workout clothes most days. I’m constantly carrying my two-year-old, bending down, moving nonstop. I’ve tried on-body carry—belly bands, under-tech pants with built-in holsters—but it just doesn’t feel comfortable with how much I move. And with Hawaii’s new concealed carry laws, I don’t want to risk printing. So off-body carry is my best option right now. The problem with most off-body bags: Magnets can fail. Zippers are too slow. Full Velcro means ripping through layers to draw. What I love about the Indie fanny pack so far: ✅ Front pockets for keys, phone, everyday stuff (I already wore fanny packs, so this fits my lifestyle) ✅ Velcro access on the back—but NOT all the way through. I can slip my thumb between the breaks and draw quickly without ripping through everything. ✅ Fits my real life—I didn’t have to change my clothing or routine. My husband told me: You have two options for everyday carry. 1️⃣Change your clothing for the firearm 2️⃣find carry solutions that already work with your lifestyle. This works for my lifestyle. First impressions? I like it. Let’s see how it holds up. ❤️ What’s your everyday carry setup? 👇 #ArmedInAloha #EDC #OffBodyCarry #FannyPack Indecarry

Friday. #mealprepideas #postpartum #mealprep #postpartumfitness #mealprepping #postpartumbody #wellnessjourney #

Picture 1: This is me being reunited with my mom. Picture 2: This is me and my grandma. After raising me for my first years, she had to bring me back. She never got to raise her own kids because she had to work. I’m the only kid/grandchild she ever raised. At six months old, I was sent from LA to the Philippines and I thought my grandparents were my parents. I began to learn English when I returned. No one told me I’d meet my parents and learn a new language all at once. BUT I can only imagine what it was like for both of them. My grandma - finally getting to raise a child, then having to say goodbye. My mom - leaving her country, working 9-5, raising her oldest, and trusting that across the world, her youngest would be okay. They won’t share their stories. They won’t tell you their feelings, but loud are the eyes and silence of a Filipina woman. There’s a kind of pain that lives in silence. A kind of love that doesn’t explain itself. A kind of trust that just believes the world will take care of what you can’t. But I don’t think they did that because they wanted to. I think they didn’t have a choice. And there’s something powerful in that - in who you become and what you choose when you don’t have a choice. The incredible respect I have for both of them - for making impossible decisions with no good options, for becoming strong when strength was all they had, for loving through separation because that was the only way - grounds me. Keeps me tough. In truth I still dream and hope in both languages, it makes me feel like I have both of them near me at all times. Mom taught me early the power in being able to control who can understand you and maybe that’s why as an adult silence is still my most comforting love song. To the little girls who became strong mothers. To the women who loved through silence and distance. To choosing who you become when you don’t have a choice. Happy Mother’s Day.

Spring Playoffs. Grateful for this sport and all the lessons learned on and off the pitch. @cityschawaii

Ready 🦋 8th grade dinner dance #hawaiipreparatoryacademy

Didn’t feel like it. Prayer, recalibrated and showed up anyway. #momlife

Inspired by the McDonalds McGriddle: here’s my homestead spin on it 🥞 Introducing Mama’s Maple Stack 🥓 • 🍞 Extra fluffy Japanese maple milk bread • 🥚 Thick, pillowy free-range egg • 🥓 Thick-cut bacon, crispy and smoky • 🟡 Golden hash brown, shatteringly crunchy • 🧀 Creamy Gouda, melted low and slow The breakfast sandwich you didn’t know you needed. 🌅 #MamasMapleStack #BreakfastSandwich

Fam Fav:THE MAPLE STACK My country spin on a McDonald’s McGriddle 🥞🥓 What you need: • Maple Japanese bread • Hashbrown • 2 slices Bacon • 1 Egg • Gouda cheese slice How to make it: • Fry up your hashbrowns (crispy) • Cook your bacon (crispy) • Fry your egg • Layer: bread, hashbrowns, bacon, egg, Gouda, bread • Wipe off excess oil (keeps it crispy) • Pop in air fryer for 10 seconds (just to melt the cheese) • Enjoy 🔥 Ranch breakfast. No drive-thru needed.

Saturday 🌺 #luckywelivehi #waimea

Anyone want to help us get ready for 8th grade dinner dance? Drop 1️⃣ for Navy or 2️⃣ Light Blue ⬇️

Thanks April.