We’ll be hitting the soccer fields for five matches this weekend, along with watching 2 of 8 compete multiple dances in a big dance competition. So before I take my seat in the cheering section, I thought I’d share a few clicks with you that are making me think, helping me be more creative and things that make me laugh……
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My mom sometimes says that she thinks I may have gotten switched at the hospital following my birth. She doesn’t mean it in a mean way (I don’t think…) What she does mean is that I, her daughter, like to do things in a way that is very, very, very different than what she would do. Take, for instance, scrapbooking….
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I’m super helpful. I just love to give nuggets of my wisdom to the world. For example… See the above picture? That was taken just as we were finding out that we were going to be moving…right at the end of my pregnancy with the twins. And here I am four weeks after the move and one week before the…
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I’ve always been pretty good about taking some cute Easter pictures of the kids each year, faces scrubbed, outfits ironed, shoes matching. (1 of 8 was in California on Easter of ’08, visiting the Amazing Nick, hence her absence in this portrait. 2 of 8 must have had grit in her contacts, hence the squint…except she doesn’t wear contacts…) I…
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“Balance is the new form of self-torture. If you grew up with a picture of Twiggy on the wall, I think balance is the same sort of thing: You can try to attain it, but it’s just not happening.” Candice Carpenter, iVillage (2001) We strive for it around here. We often fail. If I’m keeping the house together and the…
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