Amber’s Blog
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Work-Life Balance Interview: Meg Appleby
Last July, as I was working figuring out how to better balance my life, I started interviewing other people who seemed like they have it all together. I always had the intent of sharing these interviews with you, so I recorded them for both video and audio sharing. Seven months later, I’ve finally made time…
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Spring on the Farm
It’s beginning to feel a lot like spring around here. As much as I think that I’ve enjoyed living places with 4 seasons, I’ll admit that I’ve also been enjoying living in a place where tank tops and dresses are possible during late February/early March. It’s been especially welcome since we’re living in such a…
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The Work/Life Balance Project
I’m writing this post as we drive down the highway in the middle of Tennessee. We’re headed back home from a visit to my mom’s house outside Detroit. This would seem like a normal Christmas voyage, except two things are different: “home” no longer means Colorado, and we’re currently towing a 38 foot travel trailer…
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Maternity Leave for Small Business Owners
📍 ColoradoOn May 9th, I gave birth to our third daughter, Adelaide, while running on just an hour of sleep, following a 10 hour work day into the wee hours of the morning. Adelaide was born at noon; I rested, ate food, worked to get our breastfeeding relationship started, and spent an hour responding to client…
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Adelaide’s Birth Story
Adelaide is 6 weeks old today. I started writing this blog post two weeks ago, but today it’s getting posted, no matter what. After both Nora’s birth and Zara’s birth, I had their stories written within a week, but this time around it’s felt like I’ve barely had any time to process anything. Between work,…
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Go Code Colorado: Amazing Experience, Challenging for Parents & Entrepreneurs
Last year, I competed in Go Code Colorado, a combination business startup and app development competition hosted by the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. This weekend is “challenge weekend” for the annual competition, so I thought I might share my experience and thoughts about Go Code Colorado, one year out. What is Go Code Colorado? Now…
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If You’re Serious About Business, You Have To Put Your Kids in Daycare
Friday, on my Facebook Page, I shared this video of Professor Robert Kelly being interviewed by the BBC, and having his children walk into the room: It’s quite the funny little moment (although probably not so much for Professor Kelly), and any of us who have tried to work at home with kids can surely…
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Camping Throwback: Gordon Gulch
It’s Saturday and as it gets closer to spring, I’m dreaming more and more about camping, so I thought I might post a throwback to our first camping trip last summer. During our first year of regular camping in 2015, we learned that we much prefer dispersed camping to camping at campgrounds. We like being…
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Saying Hello
It’s been 416 days since I took down my website, to take, what I thought would be, a 6 month hiatus from blogging. It was both an easy and hard decision, but most certainly the right one for where my life was in January of last year. Six months into 2016, I thought about coming…
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Creating a Business Purpose Statement
As Chris and I started working on our rebrand, the first thing we focused on was creating a purpose statement for Road Warrior Creative. Over the past five years, we have figured out what we do and how we do it – our recent rebrand gave us the opportunity to refine both our services and our offerings further,…
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Adventuring into a New Year – Wordlessly
Today, Zara turned three. That means it has been almost three years since we moved off Nantucket. It means that we have now lived off island post Nantucket for the same amount of time that we called ourselves Nantucketers. Everyday the percent of our family life that we spent living 30 miles out to sea…
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Introducing Road Warrior Creative
We officially launched our new business venture, Road Warrior Creative, today, January 1st – which means there will always be a party to celebrate our birthday(!) – and we thought we should take some time this week to introduce ourselves and our new brand. Road Warrior Creative Started Out As Au Coeur Design Road Warrior…
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A Peek Inside Our New House
We’ve been living in our new house for ten days and it is mostly put together now. The past two weeks from our expected close date to the actual close date to moving mid-week was pretty stressful, but as of yesterday we’ve felt pretty settled. Buying a house in Fort Collins was a bit of…
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Why I Didn’t Make Halloween Costumes This Year
Every year since Nora could understand Halloween, I have made her a homemade Halloween costume. When Zara came along, I increased to making homemade costumes for two and loved it. Especially when they went together perfectly. My mom made many of my Halloween costumes as a child and I love passing on the tradition of trick-or-treating…
