Life
This is our life. The nitty-gritty, day-to-day story of what we’re doing and our adventures as a family. Sometimes detailed, often mostly a photo journal, filled with lots of pictures of cute little people and occasional longer reflections on Hinds family happenings.
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Taking Pause
Yesterday, I wanted to catch everyone up after a week’s worth of giveaway posts (still time to enter and share them, by the way!), but I just can’t seem to get my feet under myself enough to write about happiness and joy. Like every other parent out there, the news from Sandy Hook elementary school shook…
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Pink or Blue?
The last giveaway for this week is more of a fun little game I like to call I am 36 weeks pregnant now, which means we are no longer counting months, but are counting weeks until Peach is born and we finally get to meet him or her. Since we love the nine month…
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Oh, Hello…
Just coming up for air before diving back into a million and one website projects. I am juggling four websites right now and about to start another. I had hoped to stay right on schedule and complete each of my weekly websites on time, but other than the first one, all of my other clients…
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30 Days of Thanks: Something to Dance About
Just popping in between websites and logo designing to share my gratitude for the day and this photo of Nora from one of our recent dance parties:She is so into putting on “shows” right now and so we have built Pandora dance parties into our bedtime routine. Sometimes I get to dance too, but mostly…
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30 Days of Thanks: Tree Lighting
Nora woke up this morning with a cough, so we stuck close to home with the one exception of going into town for the Christmas tree lighting and carols. Not that we would have participated in Black Friday consumer madness anyway, but today I am thankful for a simple day at home and that the…
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30 Days of Thanks: Being a Renter
I don’t think I ever thought I would say it…but I am very thankful to be a renter right now. Between Chris’s work situation, the damage to our roof during the nor’easter, and the fact that my washing machine broke last week (you may have seen this photo on Facebook of Nora and me…
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30 Days of Thanks: Fresh Air
I’ve been in a bit of a funk the last couple days, largely because of the uncertainty of what’s going on with our lives right now. I wrote a little over a week ago about Chris’ not good work news, but I didn’t go into great detail because I wasn’t quite ready to accept or…
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30 Days of Thanks: Sweater Weather
I have a million photos I want to edit and share from the weekend and my house is almost a disaster, so I’ll admit when I took Nora to school this morning only to realize that Veteran’s Day=no school, I might have been more than a little disappointed. She only goes two mornings each week,…
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Finding Thanks When the Sky is Falling
I’ve been thinking about writing this post all day. Here I am, nine days into my month of gratitude — during which it seems like I ought to be writing blog posts about beach sunsets and adorable little girls frolicking through the woods — and I’m having the sort of day that makes sunsets and…
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30 Days of Thanks, Day Two
Today started out gray and dreary — one of those days when it’s hard to get up the motivation to do anything, especially in a slightly messy house with a little girl seemingly in need of constant entertainment. But then I remembered the ECC (early childhood center), a free grant-funded play space for little ones just a short…
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A Little Self Pity
Note to self: when you try to do the awesome mom thing and take your kid on a leaf hunt so she can try out her new binoculars, pay attention to where she gets the leaves from before she hands them to you…especially if you happen to be one of those people incredibly sensitive to…
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Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins
Halloween is only a week away and I can’t quite believe that I made it this long without talking about pumpkins…because I love pumpkins. Pumpkins we eat: (that’s my pumpkin stew) at awesome pumpkin themed potluck parties. Locally grown pumpkins we carefully choose (sometimes by testing their worthiness as a seat) and bring home.…
