Amber’s Blog
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Film Friday: Hide’n’Seek
in Film FridayRight now, one of little miss Nora’s favorite games is hide’n’seek. She would probably play for an hour if she had a willing companion. She loves running through the house mimicking what we do, shouting, “Ready or not, here I come!” and asking, “Is she in the vacuum? …No,” as she looks for me; her joy at being…
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Yoga and Play
This past session of classes for Papoose were the best yet, especially with the addition of two Tiny Tumblers classes. I love the two hours per week I get to see little people jumping, balancing, running, and rolling. They are so cute, sweet, and enthusiastic. It makes my heart melt when they call out my name…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Are You An Adult? Or, Saturday Morning at 9:26am, Amid Privilege — What does it mean to be an adult? Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture, Union of Concerned Scientists — New Union of Concerned Scientist’s site on how Monsanto has failed to live up to its promises The Hunger Blogs, Huffington…
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Film Friday: Celebrating Nora’s Birthday
in Film FridayGoing back in time again as I try to catch up with all my old videos. This one is our birthday fun for Nora. Both Chris and I agree that our favorite things to celebrate will always be our children’s birthdays. Forget my birthday, forget Christmas, even Thanksgiving (which I love) — the two most…
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Dalai Lama
Chris found this Dalai Lama quote on Reddit and I thought it was worth sharing between working on websites. And also, there’s this: We are following through with trying to sell our car, as per our New Year’s resolution to simplify and eliminate debt. Chris cleaned up the interior and exterior, and I finally listed…
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Valentines Day
Today is my mom and step-dad’s anniversary. I was not quite eight when they married, which means they’ve been married 19 years. I’m excited to be coming up on five years; I can’t even imagine how 19 must feel. Since it’s my parents’ anniversary, Valentine’s Day was always something special around our house when I was…
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Valentines Prep
I’m not really one for Valentine’s Day. I don’t have anything against, really, I’m just not all that into it. Of course, I do like any excuse I can get to eat chocolate…but historically, neither Chris nor I gave each other gifts or did anything crazy to celebrate. Until we had a child. Now, Valentines Day,…
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Film Friday: This January
in Film FridayIf you enjoyed the music, go check out Lee Coulter’s Website. I just discovered his music and love it.
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Why I Blog
I’ve been journaling for almost as long as I remember. By 7 or 8, I flirted with it, going weeks of writing each day in a pink diary complete with lock and key before gradually dying out, only to resume a month or two later with a written promise to “be better about it.” I’m not…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week Birth, Loss and In Between, InCulture Parent — A heartbreaking piece about dealing with losing a baby. Genetic or Not, Gay Won’t Go Away, NY Times — an wonderful op-ed piece about what it means to be Gay and whether or not one is gay from birth. One, Two, Three, Huffington…
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Film Friday: 2011 Part Three
in Film FridayJuly and August, more of our adorable friend Mr. T, plus excitement over new skills. How excited I was that night Nora surprised me with the ABCs in the bathtub!
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New Skills
One of the things I decided recently was to start doing my graphic design work a little bit more legit (you know, instead of in Word and Paint…). It’s been fun to re-learn Photoshop, and I’m hoping that in the future I’ll be able to offer more logo/graphic design as a bonus to my web clients.…
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You Capture: Colorful
Just popping in real quick to say, I’m feeling better! Hurrah for going to bed early! And, I also wanted to share these photos that were meant for last week’s You Capture post, which never happened because I got sick. The challenge was “colorful” which seemed like it might be hard in January…until I remembered…
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Report Card
I am beat. And miserable. This past week, I have been working almost nonstop. Between new website projects, client meetings, Papoose, researching/writing for this blog, childcare and housework, I worked pretty much from 9:30 am until 2:00 am for about five days in a row…until all those late nights caught up to me and whatever…
