December 2011
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When I have big chunks of time off like I do now for the holidays, I find it incredibly hard to blog. Blogging is part of my routine, and eleven straight days with my family with no agenda or place to be is certainly not part of my typical day in/day out. So as much as I love this blog, finding the motivation to sit down at my computer is pretty much non existent- Especially considering there are...
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Have you ever owned a dress so pretty it deserved its own party? A dress with the perfect amount of sparkle, lace, and dainty details that it suddenly has you itching to throw together an invite, hang some garland from the ceiling and whip up your famous white bean dip? When this beautiful little frock by designer Corey Lynn Calter arrived on my door, it was all I could do not to call...
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Dear Lovely Home,
Tomorrow you become ours. Despite having visited you countless times in the past months (sitting in your driveway, peeking in your windows, taking in the lovely afternoon light from your kitchen window), this time when we turn the key in your door, it will be different. Tomorrow we start a new adventure in living a good life together.
A year ago, we wondered if...
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2011 in Review. Another Year Lived in Love.
They say, the older you get, the faster the years fly by. In my experience, for every child you have, go ahead and double that rate of speed. I’m telling you now, just yesterday it was May and I was just delivering my baby boy. And two weeks ago, my daughter was just a wobbly walking, barely speaking little toddler-baby hybrid. Here’s a look back at my favorite moments from the past 12...
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Minted Giveaway Winner
In Christmas card update news, they were waiting for me when I got home Friday evening. I have since stuffed them all and sealed them with our new home address on the front. Actually addressing them, buying stamps and mailing is likely to happen sometime between now and January 2nd. Baby steps.
So on to the winner of the Minted card giveaway - Congrats to Anna, a...
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Packing a Life & a Pretend Tree.
We are living in a state of moving purgatory. We have less than a week until we become official home owners and get the key to our new place and with two small children underfoot, we’ve slowly been packing away the contents of our lives in a mobile storage container parked in front of our home. Brent and I have become expert movers. In the course of our 4 year marriage, this will...
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Work Clothes/Play Clothes
We’re in the midst of packing up our house in preparation for our move and just this weekend I discovered my big box of winter clothes stashed in the attic. Our current closets are so tiny that I always have to swap out the seasons. It’s always so much fun to dig through and find things I’ve forgotten I had. I sent them all to storage as it didn’t make sense to start...
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Santaphobia & Other Holiday Merriment
Fact: The official name of having a fear of Santa Clause is Santaphobia. (I swear, look it up!) Any of you who have been reading this blog for awhile might remember last year’s christmas photo:
It was by all accounts, a rather traumatic experience for our daughter. I know this sounds totally horrible, but I still have this photo of Everly on my desk at work and it gives me a chuckle. I...
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The Rundown: 6 Months & 22 Months
(This is terribly late and Everly is already 23 months old - but better late than never)
Stats: Ahhh! My peanut children!
Everly: you weigh 24 pounds and are still comfortably in 18 month clothing. Your little feet are finally creeping towards a size 5 shoe. I used to worry about how small you are, but you are eating well and are very active. There are tiny women on both sides of your...
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Francesca's Collections Winner & Other Neat...
Yeah, so…. I should have pulled a winner for the Francesca’s Collections giveaway over a week ago, but here I am just getting around to it (this is awkward). I’m sorry you guys, sometimes I just drop the ball on these things. I threw all the entries into random.org and the winner is (bum bum bummmmm!)
Jilly who wrote:
“I need new clothes SO bad! I find myself buying my 9...
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Something Awesome: Philanthropic Stocking Stuffers
There is a little company over on my sponsors tab that has quietly been doing amazing, life-changing things in the world. Barley & Birch started off as an organic, environmentally-friendly children’s clothing line (my kids live in their comfy tees & onesies!) I love that they are a completely carbon-neutral company with the most earth friendly options utilized in the production of...
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