Evvie and I got back late last night from a very quick and amazing trip to Toronto. I had been anticipating this trip for a couple of weeks, Justin and I even went to San Francisco to order Evvie a rush passport just so we'd be...
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Jack watched his first television show when he was about 20 months old. Zoe had only been around a week or two, and I was at my wits end trying to figure out how to nurse her and entertain him at the same time. During...
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I still keep expecting to automatically be an expert on parenting now that this my fourth time around. Laughable, really, especially because I've made it a point not to identify with that word whatsoever, and in parenting there is no such thing. Every pregnancy was...
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This post is brought to you by Target. Get More Cuuuute with Hello Kitty at Target. It's really wild having two daughters. I still haven't wrapped my head around it quite yet, but between me, Zoe, my mom and my sister-we are very, very excited! So much girl...
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Jack was a perfect baby. He was sweet and reserved, gentle and loving to everyone. I still say that he is the reason we kept having more children… He's a joy and a love through and through. Over his short seven years, he has retained...
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// This post is sponsored by Target. More Turtles, More Bold and Daring Fun: Blur the lines of fantasy and reality with your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Target. My children were all born in either fall or winter. Jack and Beau are my winter...
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This post is sponsored by Target. More Turtles, More Bold and Daring Fun: Blur the lines of fantasy and reality with your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Target. It's easy to say that these early years are incredibly monumental in the development of a child...
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The following post was sponsored by Creatacard by American Greetings. As a family, we've been slow adopters of personal electronics for the kid's use. During the day and especially the school year, they are fairly strictly limited to a couple of shows or 20 minutes...
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I have a handful of memories from my childhood, some of them I've recently learned are not actual memories but a fabrication of my imagination. Jack is approaching the second grade, and I can't help but remember the summer that I turned seven and moved...
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This post was sponsored by Keurig. To learn more about their products, go here. Parental duties between Justin and I are pretty evenly split-of course, that's debatable depending on who you talk to. To me though, it's felt more equal since we've moved to California and...
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I think I've finally figured out the formula for the reason behind why children grow so quickly. It's actually pretty simple, which surprises me the most about why I have been so completely baffled at the rate that my children are changing and getting older,...
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It occurred to me that putting a weekly roundup of my photos of Theo and Beau would serve more than one purpose, rather than having them exclusively on my Instagram feed (I've been blogging for almost five years and this only just occurred to me)....
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