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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Fourth Birthday Carnival
Sunday we had Nora’s fourth birthday party. Since she is all about the clowns on our street, we decided to have a carnival theme for her party. I had a ton of fun putting together all of the decorations for her party, from our carnival signpost and “prizes” to a bunch of fun midway-style games.…
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Hello, Four
📍 WyomingNora has been four for four days now. We celebrated with our usual family breakfast of her choice before Chris went to work. She chose the exact same thing as last year: cinnamon rolls and berries, which we ate picnic style on our deck. I made my pumpkin cinnamon rolls with applesauce instead of pumpkin…
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Throwback Thursday: A Note to Nora
I’m using “Throwback Thursday” as an excuse to post this amazing photo by Melissa Surprise of Surprise Photography. It is officially Friday morning, September 6th, (but still Thursday in my book since I have not yet gone to bed) and I simply cannot believe that this beautiful girl is four years old. Oh, my Eleanor…
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Circle Time/Preschool Daily Activities {Free Printables}
I thought I would take a little time to go into further detail on our daily activity/circle time routine this year. I mentioned in my post last week that we have expanded calendar to include more writing and weather to include a discussion of temperature, and to also talk about time. We are still doing…
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Blog Change + Quick Update
In case you missed it, I revamped my blog this weekend. If you are reading this in a RSS Reader, please click over to the site. It is so worth it. It’s much cleaner to put more focus where it should be, on my photos, and most importantly, it is mobile responsive! (Go ahead and…
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First Week of Homeschool Preschool
Everyone was back to school this week and so were we. I took last week off intentionally to plan and prep our activities for the first half of the year and started Monday super excited about getting back into school with a new plane and routine. Nora was pretty excited too and had fun helping…
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Family Fun
Last week, my mom, step-dad, and twin brothers came up to visit. It was the first time they met Zara in person and the first time we had seen them in a year. So we were much overdue for a visit. I mean look at what a big girl Zara is already…she’s practically in kindergarten.…
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Prairie Flowers
I don’t have much energy to write, although there are a million and one things I’d like to write about: World Breastfeeding Week, the county fair, planning our upcoming homeschool year, the house being done (at least as far as phase one is concerned), just to name a few. But there’s barely any time left…
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Exhaustion and Mommy Guilt
📍 WyomingIn my 28 years, I have moved nearly 20 times. I lived in nine different houses in three different states before graduating from high school. Once I went to college, I did the traditional move every year, and in the six years Chris and I have been married, we have lived in four different states…
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I Give Up — A.K.A The Photo Dump Post
I give up. I have finally accepted the fact that real, actual blogging is just not going to happen anytime soon — but what should I expect? I’m moving for the second time in six months, with a preschooler, a baby, and a husband who works 70+ hours per week. This life is not exactly…
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Five Months
Today, Miss Zara Bea is five months old. She has the darlingest smile and the most delicious little toes at the end of chunky little legs we just can’t get over. She is a rolly-polly plump baby girl, and after having tiny baby Nora, I’m in love with having a solid baby who quite visably…
