Birdie will be turning four this winter (HOW???) and Teddy two this October and in almost four years of raising these little goobers I've noticed that there are certain toys or books that they play with more than others and that I would never put in the donate pile. They are the toys they reach for time after time and that seem to...

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After seven years of marriage and two kids there's one thing I can tell you for certain - IT IS HARD. Being an adult is hard, being someone's partner is hard and being someone's partner and a parent at the same time sometimes feels impossible. People often remark on what a good team my husband and I make, that we seem to read...

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I think we're finally over the cold front as the temperatures have been well over 80 all week. Naturally I've started up scooping up sandals and tank tops and dreaming of making out to the beach some time this summer. I'm also turning 30 (WHAT????) in two months so I've been doing a little bit of birthday window shopping. Of course I can't...

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We never planned on having babies 22 months apart but it happened and we were thrilled! My mum was concerned. At the time I thought she was being a party pooper, little did I know that her worrying wasn't unfounded. Taking care of two under two those first few months almost killed me. Between recovering from a c-section, tending to a sick newborn...

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Around the time when Birdie turned one my mum started saying how freakishly similar we both looked as babies. It became a sort of joke in my family that I just "cloned myself" when I had her. Well as time went on the similarities didn't disappear, instead she would act more and more like me. Of course we could look at photos and...

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The other day I glanced at the preschool brochure laying on our dashboard and my heart sank. There it was staring me in dead in the face - the reality of the fact that my baby girl is a baby no more. The fact that our days of spending every waking moment together will soon be over. And the fact that time will...

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Spring is in full swing here in Georgia and if I've learned anything from the last two years here it's that summer isn't far behind. I've cleaned out our closets and filled our drawers and hangers with summer dresses and t-shirts and stored away sweaters and scarves until next fall. My favorite flowers are popping up everywhere and that welcome hum of insects...

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