Amber’s Blog
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Film Friday: Our Camping Trip
📍 ColoradoJust in case you didn’t get enough of our camping trip, I also made a little video with clips from it. I really cannot wait until next summer when we decide to take the plunge and get our own tent so we can be out in the woods on a regular basis. There is almost…
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In the Mountains
This weekend we fulfilled one of my 30 before 30 goals and took the girls for their first ever camping trip. Friday night we loaded up the car with a borrowed tent and piles of blankets, and headed up to a campground buried in frost and fog. We have been going to the Unitarian church…
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Film Friday: Conversations with Zara
in Film Friday📍 ColoradoI promised some more videos of Zara, so here’s a little idea of what a conversation with her is like at 20 months. This video was taken the last week of August, just before she stared going to “school.” And for fun, here is a clip of Nora from around the same age. 🙂
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Nora at 5
in Film Friday📍 ColoradoNora is 5!! We celebrated her birthday today with a party with friends. The theme was Frozen, of course, because it is her favorite thing (like all pretty much every other five-year-old American girl) and I’ve given up fighting the Disney princess mania. After her party, we took a few minutes to record her birthday…
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Days With One
Tuesday, Zara took a big step and headed off to her first day of “school.” With the amount of work I have been doing, Chris and I decided it would be good for me to get some extra daylight work hours in, so we signed Zara up for a toddler program two mornings each week.…
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Film Friday: Summer Splashin’
📍 ColoradoIt has been a long time since I made a Film Friday video, but lately I’ve realized that I don’t have a ton of videos with Zara in them so I resolved to get back into the habit of recording little clips of our days. This little video is from last week’s trip to the splash…
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First Day of Kindergarten & Back to School Sewing
Tuesday was Nora’s first day of kindergarten. She is gone from us five full days per week from 8:30-3, learning in a wonderful Montessori school that just opened here in town. Since her birthday is in September, there was some discussion about waiting another year before starting school (two of her friends that are older…
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Unlikely Friendships Can Be The Best Friendships
Once upon a time, seven years ago, I graduated from college, married my sweetheart, then followed him across country far from family and friends, so he could go to culinary school. Not long after moving to New York, I managed to land a job recruiting graduate students for Marist College (which probably only happened because I…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Past Few Weeks: 22 Candid Photos That Show How Beautiful Breastfeeding Really Is, Huffington Post — I know everyone has probably seen this already, but I love it The American Dream Does Not Cost $130,000/year, Becoming Minimalist — “The notion that a family of four must own a $275K home, drive an SUV,…
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Our Farm-Filled Weekend
Our weekend was overflowing with chickens, horses, cows, pigs, and goats. Saturday, we had a La Leche League fundraiser and World Breastfeeding Celebration at a local farm. The event went wonderfully and our fundraiser went really well, but I was also excited for the opportunity to discover Laughing Buck Farm. They have a really neat…
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Lemonade Stand + Family Weekend
Nora had her first lemonade stand this weekend and it was pretty much the cutest thing ever. We decided last minute to have a yard sale Saturday morning and I thought a lemonade stand would be a fun way to keep her entertained, so Friday Nora and I made a sign, baked cookies, and…
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Summer Solstice Throwback
Since it is “Throwback Thursday,” I thought now would be as good a time as any to backtrack and share pictures from the summer solstice party at our farm. Between a lazy morning in the backyard with the girls and that evening’s potluck, music, and fire dancing, that was most certainly one of the best days…
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You Know I’m Feeling Better When…
My mom called me a couple of days ago and asked me, “Did you really stay up until 3 am working on a website?” Why, yes I did. I’ve been feeling great and aside from the little scar at the base of my throat, I hardly feel like I even had surgery. Though that one…
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Post-Op Notes and Breastfeeding After Surgery
📍 ColoradoIn case you missed my note on Facebook, I got the best news possible when I awoke from surgery: the nodule was benign, which means I still have half a thyroid and am not expecting to have to deal with radioactive iodine. I couldn’t have imagined anything better to hear through the fog of anesthesia as…
