illustration by Anna Bond As I begin to think about and select reading material for our children I've begun to re-discover the timeless wisdom of classics that I read many, many years ago. As I peek into the pages that I read as an adolescent I get a whole new appreciation and perspective now that I'm adult. Passages that merely sounded lovely before...

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I've been mulling over something in my mind for a while now. I've gone back and forth about whether I should write about it, feeling at times that perhaps I am alone in this perspective, perhaps this is only my personal experience. Yet time and time again little slivers revealed here and there by different women have continued to make this topic tug...

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It's kind of crazy to think that we've been in this house for over a year now! When we first moved in I was 8 months pregnant, papa bear was starting a new job and there was just so much to do I didn't know where to start. For months I felt like things would never feel "complete." Between preparing for a new...

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birdie: her interest in books has grown tenfold over the past couple of weeks and we catch her reading constantly - in bed, on the potty, in her playroom or while she eats! Dream come true!! teddy: when did my baby boy get so big??? ...

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birdie: we are learning consequences and being sorry for our actions lately. We have to keep telling her that "teddy doesn't know what he's doing" when he pulls her hair or takes away a toy of hers. Well she decided to incorporate this into her own vocabulary so she'll often say "I don't know not to hit. I sorry." Breaks. My. Heart!! teddy:...

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birdie: everyone kept telling me three is such a fun age and now that we're just a few months away I totally get it. The best!! teddy: even when he's not teething he's putting absolutely everything in his mouth. He is determined to spread his slobber everywhere... ...

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birdie: thanks in part to daniel tiger's neighborhood she has started cleaning up her toys and making her bed regularly and you guys it is the most amazing thing!! teddy: i have a feeling getting rid of the paci with this guy is going to be a fight... ...

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Every year that we've been going to Florida together for our summer vacation we take family photos. For several years it was just the two of us, then we became three and finally this summer we became four. It's wonderful to have these photos as a way of seeing our family grow, change and evolve over the years. So incredibly grateful to my...

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Hey mama! Yeah, you, the one wearing sunglasses inside a grocery store at 2 pm with yogurt, spit up and deodorant stains on the sweatshirt you've been wearing for three days in a row. The one who has become so well acquainted with the bathroom in your house you practically consider it a spa at this point. The one who loses count of...

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I am so terribly behind on this project but instead of playing catch up with two months worth of photos I will just post for the last two weeks instead. teddy: we dealt with a horrible bout of teething at the beginning of the summer but the result is seven teeth!! birdie: she never got comfortable in any of her beds on vacation...

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Here’s a little confession – Teddy still doesn’t sleep through the night. There I said it. I feel like it's such an embarrassing thing to admit, like I'm such a failure because honestly who's ten month old still doesn't sleep through the night??? What that translates into for us is the fact that we are still more or less zombies most days. We’ve...

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Hi! How are you?! I can't believe it's almost been a month since I lasts wrote here, it wasn't my intention. It's been a busy summer but a good one. Lots of traveling, seeing family, lots of firsts and lasts (as in our trip back to the cabin last week). But I finally unpacked the suitcase on Friday and this morning papa bear...

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