It’s a Christmas tradition of ours to give the kids a new Christmas book at the beginning of the month of December. We like to pair it with some Christmas jammies and an ornament. We’ve collected a lot of our own and we also have a bunch of my cousins’ old books that they graciously […]
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Our beloved Halloween books always put the biggest smiles on the kids faces. We bring them out when we put up our decorations, and they get a kick out of reading through some of their favorite stories. We have a tradition of giving each of them a new book each year, so we’ve grown quite […]
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Back to school… talk about a bad time to be an enneagram nine!! For those of you not familiar with the enneagram, nines (me) tend to be indecisive and easily swayed by others, and while I’ve felt a pull to keep the kids home and teach them myself during the pandemic, I can’t tell you […]
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Our baby girl turned three months yesterday and while it seems like a short amount of time, it’s also hard to remember life without her. She’s been the sweetest little addition to our family and I’m so grateful to be her mama. I can’t believe we were ever on the fence about having another because […]
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Have I mentioned how much I love my mom friends yet? We just get each other. We can talk about anything because right now in this life, we relate to pretty much everything. We bond over toddler tantrums, birth stories and moments with our kids that make our hearts melt. These are my people!!! I’m […]
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It’s been too long, friends! Over a month to be exact. While I’ve missed posting about motherhood and creating recipes, it’s been so refreshing to take a full step back, enjoy all of the newborn snuggles and journey through the hills and valleys of this season. Life with three has been beautiful, magical, tough, exhausting, […]
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I felt it about two weeks ago while driving to a friend’s house to drop off tupperware. It was my first moment alone since August. My first time without Sage. As I drove down the road on that breezy, warm night, it snuck up on me and almost caught me by surprise. It had been a while, […]
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When I was pregnant with our first, registering for baby products was pretty overwhelming. I did a lot of research and turned to blogs to gather opinions and build our wish list of items. It was very helpful reading through what other moms found necessary vs. unnecessary because there are so many products and it […]
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Our most recent house project was turning the loft area upstairs between one of the kid’s rooms and their bathroom into a nursery space for Sage. Initially, we were going to expand the room and make it a little bigger and more functional, but after having some contractors come out, we found out the wall […]
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On Monday, April 6, we welcomed our baby girl, Sage Emelia, to the world!! She was born at 3:18 p.m. and is 8 pounds 2 ounces and 21 inches long. Sage was my quickest and easiest birth experience, which wasn’t surprising to me because Emory’s birth was easier than Peyton’s. I went in for a […]
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