Two years ago, I ran across this idea on pinterest and decided to spruce it up a bit and turn it into a gift. For Christmas I gave a jar to each of my siblings, so they could use it throughout the upcoming year with their families. The idea is that the family jots down memories on squares of paper …
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I consider myself a morning person. But at this point, I've been one out of necessity for so long that I'm not really sure if it's true. Regardless, the little feet tiptoeing to my side of the bed—and the giant baby blabbering away in her mini-crib—get me up morning after morning. So I try to make …
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I was under the covers with a laptop at my fingertips, when out of nowhere my son jumped onto the bed. It was nearly 9pm, well past bedtime, and he wore last year's Halloween costume—the Hulk—with nothing on underneath. "Look, Mom! I've grown! I'm getting SHO big! I'm almost as big as the Hulk! I …
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I lost my light for a few days there. Maybe longer. By the time I got the kids down every night, I had NO willpower to do anything beyond shrivel up in my warm bed. I was giving my kids the best I had and my husband whatever was left, but I knew I had lost it. I had lost my light. -- It came …
Making peppermint ice cream is a tradition my kids look forward to all year. It started with my sister-in-law, who makes it every year down in Arizona. Since I regrettably can't go raid her freezer every December, I started making it at home, and my boys caught the magic and ran with it. In the …
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I touched on perfectionism in my post last week, about editing our lives in order to live with more purpose. I used to think perfectionism was just being overly meticulous. Now I'm quicker to recognize that it's... That compulsion to have my eye makeup neatly in place before I answer the front …
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