marriage

Must Love and Lipstick

I met Justin at a mutual friend’s house. It was Christmas time and we were celebrating the holiday and ourselves, being home gathering for the reunion that happens around that time of year. I was dressed in my finest, he was wearing a pair of...

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Making Time for Eachother

I can count on one hand how many dates I've been on with my husband in the past year.Give or take one or two nights, we went out for our anniversary, one night before Evvie was born, and once for Justin's birthday. It's not something...

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Exchanging Thoughts instead of Things

Marriage has been one of the greatest learning experiences (read: challenges) of my lifetime. Justin and I didn't know each other all that well when we tied the knot less than a year after we met, so much of our getting-to-know-you time happened in warp...

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Our Blueprint: Eight Years

For the past six months, Justin (and basically everyone in our immediate family) have been asking me for prints of the photos I take of the kids. There's a million and one excuses, but I just haven't done it. I haven't, until recently, found a...

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