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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Spinning Cotton Tales
This year we decided to try something a little different around Easter time. I wanted to dye eggs, because it’s fun and they’re pretty and I knew Nora would love it. So we did, with natural egg dyes made from annatto seed, curcumin, purple sweet potato and red cabbage. Nora was amazed at the transformation…
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What I’ve Been Doing Instead of Blogging…
It seems like it’s been forever since I wrote an actual blog post (nearly a week!), but we’ve been hard at work and play the last few days. I finished up a website for Caitlin Marcoux, my fabulous yoga teacher and new friend, early in the week and have spent a lot of time finalizing…
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Vacation Day
Lately, I’ve been working almost full time on websites. At least six hours, usually more, every day because I’m trying to get several of them done by the end of the month. Of course, with Nora, that means I have been pulling some very late nights to get things done. Friday, was the first day…
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Happy Spring
The weather this whole week has been lovely, and today was no exception.We’ve been getting out to bask in sunshine and slowly shedding layers, first coats, then jackets, as we meander from our unusually mild winter into spring. The Brotherhood is closed on Tuesdays, and so we get to have Chris at home for the…
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Twenty-seven
Today, I turned 27. We had beautiful weather and a nice quiet day; play group, lunch with a friend, then dinner at the Brotherhood. Chris surprised Nora and I by being out of his chef whites when we arrived and waiting out front. For the first time in months, the three of us ate dinner…
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Pennies for Jena
Today is Jena Cassalina’s 19th birthday. A little over five years ago, at the age of thirteen, she took her last breath while waiting for a double lung transplant and fighting cystic fibrosis. I never had the honor of knowing beautiful Jena, but I do have the honor of calling her amazing mother, Margarete, my…
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Resilience
This week, our island has been mourning the untimely loss of a beloved partner, father, and community member. Tonight, Nantucket joined together to honor him; though I did not really know him or his family and did not attend, I have thought of him often since hearing the news Monday. Tonight, Nora and I visited…
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Two and a Half
Today is Nora’s half birthday and she is officially two and a half (though I have been telling people that since January). We love celebrating our little girl and half birthdays are the perfect excuse to do so; we haven’t missed a half birthday since Nora’s first party, when our friends came over at 6…
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Quick Home Post
The last few days have been both amazing and stressful. Friday, Nora and I headed off island to join two of our Nantucket Friends at the Mass., Rhode Island, Vermont La Leche League Conference.It was, by all accounts, wonderful, educational and perfect — except for the part where Nora got a mysterious illness which resulted…
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Report Card
I know I haven’t been around much lately. Darn those New Year’s resolutions…it’s only February and already I’m falling off the wagon. I’ve been lost in the fog of web design, if you will. I’m at a variety of stages on a few different projects, one of which I’ll share with you tomorrow, so I was busy…
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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,…
