I turn 32 and go to the apple orchard

Not to start this post off on a negative point, but last year on my birthday I was recovering from a stomach virus. Nothing too crazy—it was just that I sat up on the couch from 2:00 a.m. on, fighting nausea. So it was a lazy sick birthday. History Repeats Itself…

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A Particularly Perfect Family Vacation

I admit I was nervous about this vacation. I was nervous about how the nights would go, how she would nap, how she would do in the hiking backpack. Luckily, Olivia proved me wrong and we ended having a fantastic vacation. Day 1: Friday We were able to leave the…

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Olivia at 22.5 Months

So I have to give her some credit. I made her sit in this chair every week for 52 weeks her first year. And now in her second, we’ve done them monthly. Girl is done. I’m done. We’re done. Sitting nicely (or even kind of nicely) for monthly photo shoots…

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Because I’m nosy…

I’m curious about something. I was driving home from the gym tonight (this whole early menopause thing, as well as impending FET has me totally freaking out and running to the gym to lose all the weight and gain all the strength I can) and of course I thought about…

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“Right Now” September 2017

Reading: I just finished the 6th book in the Outlander series, A Breath of Snow and Ashes. I’m obsessed. I’m waiting for my reading buddy, my fellow Outlander in crime, to catch up to me to discuss, so I’m going to be reading some other books in the meantime. I just…

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