May 2010
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The Jordan Family Declaration of Living Outloud.
All current and future members of the Jordan Family are hereby instructed to follow these ten rules as often as possible:
1. Run around the house naked if the mood strikes (children only! hahaha)
2. Stay up past bedtime when we are having too much fun together
3. Sing loudly, anytime day or night
4. Enjoy making a good, supervised mess every now and then.
5. Read all of our books in funny...
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Porch Light Apothecary: Front Porch Swing →
My morning has been incredibly hectic, it’s a dreary, rainy day, and to top it off I’ve got a wicked cold - and then this little post popped up - written by Brent sometime this morning and now all I can do is picture the two of them, the loves of my life, rocking back and forth and watching the train go by.
Instant mood lift.
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I’ve spent this morning with my little dove doing the...
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Baby Blues and what I didn't realize at the time.
A large majority of mothers out there go through some sort of baby blues, or worse, Postpartum Depression after the birth of a child. I experienced the former of the two in my early stages of motherhood. When I was living in the middle of mine, I didn’t see them as such - I was so overwhelmed by the experience - by the responsibility- by the love that had its hold on me that I felt sure I was...
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"My Child Will Never..."
I think all parents are guilty of uttering this at one point or another. My mom hated being forced to wear patent leather shoes to church when she was little and SWORE her daughter would never, ever wear them… but as these things usually go… I happened to be kind of obsessed with fancy, shiney black shoes. And so she found herself reluctantly purchasing them year after year.
Some of...
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Hello. We survived.
We made it. We’re busy as you can possibly imagine, but we made. (which was our main goal, so three cheers for that)
I’ve got to keep this short, but here is a little update:
1. We have so much stuff - where did it all come from? We landed in SF with barely enough to fill a 500 sqft flat and left with so much that we filled every inch our space on the moving truck...