Emelia fingerpaints!

This is a month overdue, but being that I blogged about Olivia’s first painting, I wanted to, you know, make it fair for her little sister. Chris helped Olivia with a fingerpainting for my first Mother’s Day, so this year, we had a new baby to keep tradition. (Not pictured—the…

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Trendsend review #4

My fourth box was pretty dang good this month. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever had this much difficulty deciding as I had with this box. With Trendsend, you have a stylist that pairs outfits together to try on, so that’s what I did. Trendsend’s styling fee is only a…

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Celebrating 12 years

Because of COVID, Chris and I hadn’t been out on a date in five months. The last time we went out alone it was for Valentine’s Day, my parents had the kids, and Emelia started shrieking inconsolably because she didn’t want to take a bottle. We had to cut it…

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Who needs fireworks when you have a pool?

I don’t remember exactly when it was that we first talked about getting a pool because of COVID but I know I had brought the idea up well before other people had thought of this same thing and rushed out to buy pools. This is our new world now—beating other…

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Emelia at nine months

She’s getting so big. She’s going to be a year old in three months and yesterday I cried about that. I’m not ready to leave the baby stage behind for the last time. I want to bottle her up and keep her this little forever. OK, but then I think…

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