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Business Ownership
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July 18, 2022

Our First “Exit”: Selling WP Conference Schedule

The business decision behind why we decided to sell WP Conference Schedule rather than releasing the premium plugin ourself.

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Galveston, TX
Life
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May 29, 2022

Celebrating 15 years

Thoughts on our 15th anniversary and trip to Galveston without kids.

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Nora looking at a flower
To My Daughters
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September 6, 2020

To Nora, at Eleven

Today is Nora's eleventh birthday. At times I feel like Nora's birthdays are celebrations, but also tiny losses. They're bittersweet moments to marvel at future possibilities and find joy in the past year's accomplishments, but also moments[...]

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Georgetown, TX
Blogging, Life
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August 24, 2020

Hello, Is Anyone Out There?

It has been 1 year, 9 months and 3 days since I last published a blog post on this website. At that time, we had just moved from Colorado to Texas and I thought that I was going to revive my blog. I wrote a handful for posts, but then life and[...]

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Georgtown, TX
Business Ownership
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March 5, 2020

What It’s Really Like Working Remotely From a Fully Remote Team

A note from Amber: This blog post was originally written by our content specialist, Emma Crowe-Fleming for the Road Warrior Creative blog. I moved it over here when we closed down that business and took the website offline because I think it's[...]

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Denver, CO
Travel
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June 13, 2019

Summer 2019 Travel Schedule

Hello from Colorado! (Yes, Iโ€™m posting this a bit late.) Our Summer 2019 road trip is in full swing and this year weโ€™re headed North and West. With a schedule packed full of partying with our clients, workshops, and some g[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Finances
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November 20, 2018

Colorado House Renovation Before and After, Part 2

This is part two of my blog post about how we flipped our own house, doing a renovation and updating in 6 weeks, prior to listing it for sale.  In Part One, I showed you the major changes upstairs when we took a wall between the dining, liv[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Finances
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November 10, 2018

Designed to Sell: Flipping Our House, Part 1

It's officially been a year since I arrived in Texas.  When we decided to list our house for sale during our spontaneous cross-country move, I somehow managed to talk Chris into taking a gamble on a full renovation and trying to "flip" our[...]

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Life Right Now

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I started a podcast with Chris and our business partner, Steve! We'll be releasing episodes every Monday on website accessibility and craft beverages. Check it out or subscribe at AccessibilityCraft.com.

#podcast #podcaster #accessibility #accessibilityforall #accessibilitymatters #accessible #a11y #WordPress #webdesign #webdevelopment #websitedesign #ux #usability

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It's that time again... Girl Scout cookies! And this year we have two selling. Help them meet their cookies sales goals by ordering online. 

If you live nearby, choose girl delivery and help get cookie boxes out of our garage... Otherwise we're going to be giving them Girl Scout  Cookies for birthday and Christmas presents all year.

Addie's link: https://tinyurl.com/2os3rmdy

Zara's link: https://tinyurl.com/2nev4fs3

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Bus stop selfie with Nora. This week she moved from her tiny charter school with only 18 eighth graders to the public middle school with over 200. And now she rides the bus.

The charter school wasn't challenging her enough, has a huge percentage of students who are disruptive in the classroom, and has been having trouble keeping teachers. Last year she loved it. But this year it was one thing after another, so right before Thanksgiving she and I went to go tour our neighborhood  middle school, and she immediately wanted to make the switch.

We've never had a kid in public school and I was nervous about how the transition would go from such a small school to a big one, but so far she's loving it and is glad she decided to move schools. It helps that she knows kids there already from her dance team. Hopefully she'll still be happy when she starts getting homework. Coming from a no homework school that may be a shock to us all.

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My three year old girl. ๐Ÿ’•

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Halloween 2022. Two witches, a murderous cat, and a creepy Victorian doll. 

Zara's costume was my favorite this year - Nora did her makeup and she wore my flower girl dress from my mom and step-dad's wedding. She might have worn it better. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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