Two children in elementary school, one in preschool and one most often on my hip means we are constantly moving. My alarm sounds at 6 am, cooing that she is hungry and it’s time to wake up. Beau walks into our room dragging his toes...
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Growing up in the Bay Area, we have had ample access to everything that California is known for: Nature, beautiful weather, and amazing produce. Many of our most successful restaurants boast farm to table cuisines, and the farmer's markets are practically bursting with some of...
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10 weeks is such a sweet spot. Evangeline is really coming into her own lately, and each day I'm emerging more from that newborn fade. I want to gush all over the place. She is a joy. She's already so opinionated, sensitive, hilarious, remarkable, feisty. Maybe it's...
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Last year around this time, I was in Guatemala. The families we visited had nothing but each other. The chickens ran through their dirt floored living rooms where the children played, huge smiles spread wide across their little faces. The women, draped in long skirts,...
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Beau and I fell asleep together last night with tear stained, salty cheeks. Earlier in the evening, Justin and I had made a nice meal together. He roasted a tenderloin on the BBQ and I made fingerling potatoes and steamed green beans that had been trimmed...
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This post is brought to you by Target. Get More Cuuuute with Hello Kitty at Target. Growing up, on a daily basis my immediate family consisted of my mother and sister. My sister and I did everything together, and girl time was not just a treat,...
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This week seems to only be getting harder with little Beau and his separation emotional turmoil over baby Evvie joining our family, so I've been spending as much one-on-one time as I possibly can with him. That means having as many adults in our home...
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I want to tell you about Beau. About how sensitive he is and how he's so totally emotionally tuned in to all of us. I wish you could hear the way he calls his baby sister "Baby Evvvvvie", it's so cute and sweet that it...
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Sometimes the ultimate mind, body and soul rejuvenation for me is a new hair cut. So, I booked an appointment and went to get my hair done for the first time in the three weeks since Evvie was born. I was eager for the physiological...
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Jack and Zoe are 19 months apart. Lately I've been thinking a lot about the time we spent together during those first few completely wild, totally amazing years. How I loved having two babies. We did everything together, so many firsts spent learning about life, the...
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Four weeks. I can barely believe it's been four weeks since Evvie was born. It's just like a new mother to say something like that, isn't it? A whole month. I want to mourn the time passing but the time has been so healing for our...
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