This post is sponsored by Target Subscriptions - everyday essentials delivered on the schedule you set. Monday, January 5th at 7:28 AM, and we're about 18 minutes into our first day back to the regular elementary, preschool and work routines. The kids are eating the last three bananas with the last three...
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There's a clarity that comes with the first of a brand new, fresh year. I, for one, have been desperate for a little honing in on what is truly the most important things. It's January second, and now that the fluff has dissipated from the holidays...
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At some point, in between the lunches and diapers the music performances and little league games nursing and wooden puzzles searching for lost doll shoes and cleaning up piles of glitter I'll stop and breathe them in and hold them tight. I won't let the glory of their years flying by...
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The family and I took a boat ride to Liberty and Ellis Islands before our flight home, and it couldn't have been a more perfect closure to a truly full circle experience for all of us in the city that we all grew up in...
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During our four years in New York City, one of my favorite stories from our life there happens to be one of the things that bothered me incredibly when we were actually living it. Each year at Christmas time, we'd shuffle around the boxes from...
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I probably would have never learned to roast a turkey if it hadn't been for our move to New York City. It's one of those things that I learned as a parent from being away from my mother, but the rather simple act of preparing...
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It's been one year since we brought Theo home. Zoe and I drove to the shelter to collect him, just the two of us. She had been asking incessantly for a puppy for as long as she could verbalize it. The entire 20 minute ride...
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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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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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I've been wanting to share with you the day that we brought Evvie home, but it's been a little raw for me up until recently. That day was so hectic, hardly the kind of serene and sweet "coming home" celebration we had hoped for, but...
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Walking into the our athletic club to take the kids swimming yesterday, a woman passed us and remarked "Wow, four kids. That ain't for the faint of heart." Little did she know exactly how faint in the heart I've been feeling the last week. It's...
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