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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For whatever reason, Justin and I have lived near water together throughout our marriage. The two of us grew up about 20 minutes south of where we live in Santa Cruz, and spent some of our most formative years playing in the same sand that...
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One of the stories that I hear frequently from my husband's parents tells of a very young Justin getting up by himself in the morning, pouring himself a bowl of Cheerios and milk and turning on the giant television before anyone else is awake. I...
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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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Evvie and I got home from Toronto late Saturday night after a long day of travel. I was emotionally and physically haggard, despite the wonderfully successful trip. The sunrises over the ocean have been glorious since the beginning of fall, and we awoke Sunday morning to...
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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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Justin and I were the first in our group of friends to marry and settle down. We were also the first to have babies, and have continuously been the youngest in our peer groups to have families. Our friends that were parents were those who...
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"You look great, Steve!" I remarked as I passed our neighbor, dressed in his costume on Friday. "Thanks!" he fired back. "You look like a drowned rat"! I do now and I will always appreciate his honesty. I absolutely did look like a drowned rat after...
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It feels like my family's lives have been through constant and aggressive change for a little over a year now since we moved from New York City to California. The shift from one coast to the other couldn't have been more extreme in every way,...
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Today is a bit of a hodgepodge of things that I've been wanting to yell from the rooftops about. Products that I have found on the internet and just absolutely love. The first is a new one for me. The La Siesta baby hammock. It keeps her...
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A couple of weeks ago I thought I lost my iPhoto library. I had spent an hour looking at online tutorials, following the step-by-step process of trying to transfer all of the photos from my MacBook Air onto a large external hard drive. I had...
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One of hardest things about our first year living away from our family that first holiday season in New York City was missing out on my mom's holiday cookie baking tradition. My babies hadn't been quite old enough to join in the ritual of making...
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