Happy fall friends! I've come to relish updating this little list with every new season each year. It's fun to go back and re-read the ones from years past, to see how much or how little has changed. And I like the chance to sit down with a cup of coffee and think about the next few months, map it out a little...

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No matter how many years go by the moment I hear the first five keys of "Easy Living" by Billie Holiday I'm instantly transported back... Back to that first September at the cabin. Before cable. Before wifi even. We had one car that Kevin took to work every day and there I was in a half empty house, covered in boxes and nothing...

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What does one even say after a month like the one we've had? Looking back now I feel like there was "us" before this summer and now there is "us" post summer and we look very different now. There's something about grief that seems to make it burrow itself deep into your very DNA and there is no part of you that isn't...

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It may still be 95 degrees every day but in my heart - it's autumn. This weekend I made a breakfast that some may describe as overkill but in my book it was just right - pumpkin spice waffles with pumpkin spice coffee and creamer. Mmmm.... as they say: "Give me pumpkin or give me death!!" I've been lighting all my favorite fall...

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Say privet to Valya Kids!! Just typing this out gives me massive butterflies. It feels surreal to finally be talking about something that feels like my third baby!!  About a year ago my mum was helping me fold the kid's laundry and said to me "Do you realize that the way you dress the kids is so similar to the way I used...

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