Amber’s Blog
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Pittsburgh
in TravelLast month I did something I had never done before – I left Chris and the girls and flew across the country to visit friends for a weekend in Pittsburgh. Every year since I moved away from New York, my friends Laura and Margarete have been coming to visit me – first via car…
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Last Camping Trip Of Summer
Today’s the first day of fall, but it’s been hot and still quite summer-like in northern Colorado, so I’m still feeling every much in summer mode. It’s all most a month late, but I’m finally getting around to sharing our last camping trip for summer, which as at Eleven Mile State Park. This was an…
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Weaning Zara
📍 ColoradoThis week, my “baby” officially started preschool. Since we’re a Montessori family, Zara had the benefit of a long transition period as she moved from the toddler to the preschool class over the summer. She’s been spending parts of days and whole days in the preschool class since early June, but September 1st marked the…
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First Day of First Grade
This morning my biggest girl started 1st grade. She moved from the primary classroom to an elementary classroom at her Montessori school, which means she will be learning alongside not just other first graders, but also second, third, and fourth graders. After a final summer in a preschool program, Nora was more than ready to be…
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World Breastfeeding Week After La Leche League
📍 ColoradoToday is August 1st, which marks the first day of World Breastfeeding Week. For the first time in 5 years, I did not plan a big celebration or orchestrate a walk. I didn’t attend a single breastfeeding event, and I haven’t been to a La Leche League meeting in months. Last summer, as my business…
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A Weekend With Friends in Medicine Bow National Forest
Lately, all I’ve been posting have been giant photo bomb posts of the mountains, but I’m finding our forays into the wilderness around us so breathtaking that it’s hard not to share. We planned four camping trips this summer, one per month June through September; two of the trips were for our family alone and…
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Camping in Colorado State Forest State Park
On a Friday afternoon in June, we drove up the Poudre Canyon, through Roosevelt National Forest, to State Forest State Park. Chris and I had learned a little late this year that people start reserving camping spots in Colorado as early as January, so there were slimmer pickings when he went to reserve spots for us…
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July Celebrations
July brings one of our favorite holidays. I’m a real sucker for red, white, and blue, summer sun and simple celebrations of unity and promise, so I get super excited when the 4th of July roles around. Just like last year, we joined Nora’s school in the Fourth of July parade, only this year she…
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Backyard Camping
After our trial run last fall in the freezing cold with borrowed gear and a sick baby, we crazily decided that camping regularly was something we wanted to do…because it really could only be uphill from there, right? The only problem we had was that we did not own a single piece of camping gear.…
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Some Random Things
I wrote a while back that I might use Thursdays as an opportunity to play catch up on all the things I never blogged, in honor of “Throwback Thursday” — and then I proceeded to not blog at all…and apparently not take pictures off of my camera, either, because when I went to get pictures…
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Debt Free
It is officially summer in Colorado. We have a mini garden started with some veggies and berries, we’ve taken our first trip to buy delicious things from the farmer’s market, and this afternoon Chris and I rode bikes (together!) to pick the girls up from their summer program. After a gray Seattle-like May, we are reveling in…
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Hello 30
One year ago, I posted of a list of 30 things I wanted to do before today: Pay off my school loans Go to Wanderlust Colorado Get Boudoir Photos Taken Go to a Movie Alone Knit a Sweater Be Capable of Passing the Army Physical Fitness Test Read Pride and Prejudice Go Camping Relearn How…
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Zara’s First Hair Cut
In honor of “Throwback Thursdays,” I’m going to use Thursdays as a day to take a break from my new goal of writing substance and post all of the things from the last few months that I never got around to posting…like Zara getting her first real hair cut. I took her right before we…
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Getting Back On The Horse
After days…weeks…a month of not blogging, the thought of starting up again feels overwhelming. In the beginning, it was easy to let days slip past in a blur of road trips, family visits, and holidays, but once settled back into our routine, time moved slower again. Though still stuffed with work and kids and new…
