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The Dream of Disney
This past weekend was our second trip to Disney World in three years. We’ve also been to Disneyland twice in the past two years, all of which couldn’t be more different than my childhood or what our...
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Travel Buddies
We got back from Florida late on Monday night. The kids were exhausted after playing in the hotel pool all morning and then enduring what was close to 12 hours of travel. Jack and Zoe sat with me and...
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Boys Will Be Joys
This post is sponsored by Target. My childhood was immersed in the colorful world of little girl’s toys. My sister and I played happily with baby dolls, Barbie dolls, My Little Ponies, baby carriages...
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Comfort is Key
We are finally home and nearly settled back into our routines after a 5-day “blip” of a trip to Orlando, Florida. We traveled with our children and Justin’s parents also came along to experience Disney...
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Building Our Ship
Shortly after Justin and I met, our lives took the fast track into our forever together. He helped me move out of my college apartment in San Francisco and into his parents’ home with him. I worked and...
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The Force of May
It’s evident in the hallways at school, the walls that are dripping with artwork that has long begged to be taken home. The backpacks are stuffed in a corner, dirty and dilapidated, worn from day in...
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Travel With Care
Evangeline will be nine months old next week, and over the course of her young life she has already traveled farther than I did for most of my 35 years. She’s been to Toronto, New York City, Florida...
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The Girl Abides
Last week was super weird. No specific reason, or maybe a ton of little reasons. My birthday was on Tuesday and for as much as I spent the last year thinking I was a year older than I am, it was a...
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All Aboard
Parenting is as parenting does, and as the saying goes, “if you can do it in New York City, you can do it anywhere”. I lived that very honest reality raising kids in Manhattan; living in a little...
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Counting Down To Summer
This will be my third summer as a mother to children in the elementary school system. The three of us are completely hopped up on the spirit of summer, that senioritis that comes with knowing that a...
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Traveling as a Team
With four children and a career I’m often ask how I do it all. It’s one of those things that probably seems and appears cohesive from the outside, but for my husband and I juggling everything can be a...
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Setting the Conditions
Justin and I met at an alcohol-laden Christmas Party. I showed up with a handful of friends after celebrating the holidays barhopping at the infamous pubs in our hometown. It was already sort of late...
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Sacred Slumber
The very first piece of (new) “furniture” that we received as a couple was a mattress, a moving gift bestowed upon us by my mother. We were thrilled to upgrade to a queen size from a full, despite...
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Yielding to the Summer Current
Summer is officially kicked off. We have had pool days, beach days, and do-nothing days. My kids are home and we are whole again, free from the routine and the homework and the rushing. Whenever we...
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Freedom Ride
The summer months bring a whole new current into our lives and system as a family. Justin keeps his normal schedule and mine fluctuates, ebbing and flowing amongst the demands of Jack, Zoe and Beau’s...
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Discovering Ourselves
Last summer we enrolled Jack in the local and quite popular junior lifeguard camp. We were new to the area, and hadn’t been introduced to this program before even though we grew up just thirty minutes...
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On Independence and Family Values
“Mommy, what is the Fourth of July?” Zoe asked from the back seat of the car as I was hustling to get everyone to camp on time. Precisely when I’m either somewhat distracted or otherwise engaged is the...
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I fell in love with photography around the time when Zoe was born and Jack was 19 months old. I had just gotten an iPhone, so the concept of social media, personal devices and digital iphoneography was...
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The Legacy of a Name
I’ve had animals in my life for as long as I can remember. My first pet was a “barn cat” who lived with us in our apartment in Ohio. She wasn’t trained and had developed poor habits before she became a...
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Constant Nurturing
In a few short days, our youngest daughter Evangeline will be 11 months old. I’ve had to remind myself to prepare to throw her a first birthday party and order her a baby book, as she is scaling over...
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