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I posted this picture on Facebook and Instagram this weekend. Actually, on Valentine’s Day. I commented on how big my second grader looks, both in general and specifically with her hair pulled back. And then I looked at the picture … Continue reading
Posted in A Moment, Girls, Life, Motherhood, Parenting, School-age, Uncategorized
Tagged aging, Dot, raising girls, thirty
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A DIY Answer to the Dress-up Storage Question.
Our lucky little girls (M will surely inherit her big sister’s legacy) have quite a dress-up stash. When we moved into this house two years ago, Dot began accruing dress-up dresses. First, a Sleeping Beauty get-up as a Christmas gift … Continue reading
Posted in Girls, Tips, Tricks, and Experiences, Uncategorized
Tagged DIY, home, saving money
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2011: The Year in Review.
This holiday season I spent the better part of a week custom designing calendars for some of our family as gifts. I also did photo books for each girl. That amounts to a lot of time spent sifting through photos … Continue reading
Posted in Babyhood, Blogging, Family, Food and Fitness, Girls, Life, Me, Motherhood, Parenting, Portland, Social Work, The Day to Day, Uncategorized
Tagged baby gear, babywearing, change, childcare, cloth diapering, CrossFit, Disneyland, Dot, growing, hair, holidays, home, M&M, making memories, marriage, milestones, Oprah, oregon, paleo, preserving, thankful, Timbers, twitter
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December Thanks: Re-cap and People Edition.
I knew last month when I set out to pay homage to 25 Things I’m Thankful For in less than thirty days it was a rather tall order. To then take into consideration the timing of the academic term, the … Continue reading
Posted in Babyhood, Blogging, Family, Food and Fitness, Girls, Life, Me, Motherhood, Parenting, Portland, School, Social Media, Social Work, The Day to Day, Tips, Tricks, and Experiences, Uncategorized
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Second Born: It’s a[nother] GIRL! (Birth Story-Part III)
Hopefully this post can catch you up. Basically my second baby (for whom gender is unknown) is about twenty minutes away from making her grand entrance. And I’ve got no drugs. Between the last posting and this one I finally … Continue reading
Posted in A Moment, Babyhood, Family, Girls, Life, Motherhood, Tips, Tricks, and Experiences, Uncategorized
Tagged baby gear, birth, breastfeeding, family planning, happiness, M&M, making memories, pregnancy, sisterhood, thankful
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Four-year-olds say the darndest things (but so true).
At naptime yesterday I was reading a Junie B. Jones book to Dot in which kindergartner Junie B. had decided to dress (spoiler alert!) as a janitor for Job Day at school. I asked Dot what she might like to … Continue reading
Four years old.
My first baby is now four years old. Four years ago I brought a living being into this world. I don’t think the shock and awe of that, and wonder at the way the time passes, will ever go away. … Continue reading
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Tagged birth, Disney, Dot, growing, hair, milestones, sisterhood
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel: A Tangled Birthday Party.
The past weekend we celebrated Dot’s upcoming 4th birthday with large gaggle of fellow preschoolers, a half dozen or so baby siblings, and a herd of accompanying parents. It was chaos. But the celebratory, beautiful summer Saturday morning, kind. Dot … Continue reading
Posted in Girls, Tips, Tricks, and Experiences, Uncategorized
Tagged Disney, Dot, hair, home, making memories, milestones, party, projects
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Baby nicknames.
A week away from four months (eek!) M&M has a handful of nicknames. Obviously, M&M being one of them. I blogged about Dot’s nicknames when she was around three months. Dot was her primary nickname then and it’s stuck. Though, … Continue reading
A Princess Haircut.
We are pretty firmly entrenched in Disney culture around here. For better. For worse. For now. But that, the future of that, the joys of that, the possible implications of that, are another post. Plus, with a much-anticipated Disneyland trip … Continue reading