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sugar-crusted raspberry muffins

These muffins are a favorite go-to snack around our house. They take next to no time to make and always fill the house with their heavenly scent. I love Real Simple for that reason. Over the years I have amassed quite the collection of torn out pages with recipes that are mainstays. They're almost always simple, quick, cheap and healthy. Which leads me...

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a dress for spring

jacket - h&m, dress - target, tights - gap, shoes - shoemint, sunnies - borrowed from papa bear Driving into town the other day I couldn't help but notice just how brown everything was. The funny thing is that even that was a sight for sore eyes after weeks and weeks of snow, mostly because I know that it's always brownest before the...

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a week's worth of odds & ends

My mum has always been telling me that babies crave routine and hate change and this week was certainly proof of that. We returned home on tuesday after escaping to DC last week so as to avoid being trapped in our cabin (our town ended up getting close to two feet of snow!!) and we instantly saw a change in Birdie. She was...

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being genuine + being positive

It ain't easy folks. I've always struggled walking this line. I'm a perpetual optimist to a fault and I will help you look for that silver lining till your feet are tired and you're just about cursing me but by golly we'll find it! Unless it's nowhere to be found, at which point I usually resort to one of three options: a) laugh...

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surviving the newborn stage

It feels funny to be in a place where you're not the one anxiously and nervously looking upon the unknown of world of a newborn. Instead I listen and at times ever so cautiously offer advice to those in the throes of a newborn baby or are about to be. And now that Birdie is over a year I thought it may be...

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a week's worth of odds & ends

It's been quiet here this past week. Birdie and I have been terribly sick so it's been nothing but coughing, runny noses, medicine and general yuck for us. We did manage to snag some donuts on wednesday, I finally hung our family photos from our shoot with the incredible Yvonne this past fall and since I was feeling better on thursday I thought...

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a week's worth of odds & ends

^ a new pot for hearty soups ^ ^ a little trinket I found at a thrift store to remind of my homeland ^ ^ used up the leftover cookie dough from christmas ^ ^ we finally got a toaster! yay for bagels in the morning! ^ ^ I live for this toothy smile ^ ^ we've been experimenting with crayons lately ^...

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a playlist by birdie [FEB]

This was the month that Birdie has really started to branch out with her musical tastes. She's more or less on board with male vocalists (yay!!) and she's even appreciated some country songs, much to her mama's joy! Birdie had a rough night last night due to the nasty cold she's been fighting since monday and as usual the only thing that could...

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let's go to the country

jacket - old navy, shirt - madewell, pants - forever21, shoes - hunter, glasses - warby parker There was something decidedly British about this outfit the moment I put it on. Perhaps it was the boots, or the muted colors but ultimately, it was the corduroys I think. When we lived in England my mum used to take us school clothes shopping at...

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