Category Archives: New Beginnings

{ happy new year }

  We played board games by the fire (and lost pieces almost immediately) and then watched the kids dance around the house to Kenny Chesney. We didn’t toast with champagne or get dressed up and nothing included glitter. But from the way it felt, the promise of something good couldn’t have been prettier or more...

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{ how do you spell love? }

  I have been sitting on these images for awhile. I wasn’t quite sure how to tell the story, but today feels like the day to spill it. As any parent of a pre-schooler does, we practice letters a lot. One morning we were really early for school, and so we decided to “practice” spelling...

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{ letting the outside, in }

I can push the kids on swings and run around a merry-go-round until they scream with delight. I can take them for walks and ice cream cones and snuggle and kiss boo boos and make dinner and read stories. I can encourage homework and manners and affection. I can correct too much tv time, junk...

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Protected: { when you collide }

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{ brunch instead }

Our summer wedding … Picture this. Late morning ceremony held outside. Chairs circled around us …  instead of in rows. Promises and vows and tears and smiles and rings and children and a family is created. With a chic brunch to follow. Pancakes and fruit and cocktails and a ruffled strawberry tiered cake. It’s not...

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