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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Twenty-Eight and Three
Today I turned twenty-eight. Somewhere around last week, I had my three year “blogiversary.” My how life has changed. I never wear make-up but I decided to celebrate today with some very red lipstick and a trip to the DMV. I am now an official Wyoming resident with a Wyoming driver’s license and cowboy license…
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Revisiting Homeschooling
One of the first things we did after moving to Wyoming was tour preschools. I had thought getting Nora started with a school would be the best way for her to meet other kids while giving me more time to get things done around the house and work on a few websites. I hadn’t found…
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Exploring
We’ve finally started exploring our town and finding lots of fun things to do. Sunday, I made good on my promise to keep walking and walked the girls to a park and the library. There were lots of fun things to see along the way.I really am quite pleased with our location. There wasn’t much…
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A Bigger Footprint
Remember when we went an entire month (in the middle of winter, no less) without using our car? And remember how, as part of our 2012 New Year’s resolutions, we then tried to sell it because we wanted to pay off as much debt as possible? (But couldn’t sell it because it was worth too…
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Restaurant Sneak Peek
We moved to Wyoming so Chris could be the executive chef of a new 350 seat steak house. He started work not long after the last box left the truck; luckily most of the work has been from home as the restaurant is still under construction, which means Chris has been around to help with…
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Moving, Part Whatever
It is now safe to say that we are officially done moving. We made it through 11 states, through sunshine, rain and snow in an SUV packed full clothes, toys, kids and a dog, to new life in a new city far, far away. We have a house that is 99% put together with only…
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Family Love
I’ve fallen farther behind on posts than I expected to, what with juggling two little girls, social events with Chris’ bosses, and making our house livable. There’s a million and one things I want to share, but once again I am only finding the time to type later than planned. It’s funny how we moved…
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Photos From the Road
Today was the longest day on the road – just about twelve hours from the minuscule town in Minnesota where we had stopped the night before, exhausted from a late, snow-delayed start. There were a few (not unexpected) moments of complaints from Nora and more than one potty break just 10 or 15 minutes after getting back on the…
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Fun Along The Way
If you have to move across country, the only way to do it is with a little fun along the way. We took Saturday off from driving and spent the day playing around Pittsburgh with my friend Laura.I hadn’t been to Pittsburgh during cross-country car trips as a kid with my family, so it was…
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Moving, Part I
in LifeIn case you missed it, we moved on Wednesday. We are no longer Nantucketers and no longer live 30 miles out to sea. Instead, we are on our way more than halfway across the country in a car stuffed inside and out, to make a new home in the prairie grasses of the cowboy state.No more joking…
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The State of the Union
Or at least the state of the Hinds family. 🙂 I’ve thought about and written nearly a blog post a day in my head, but life, as it likes to do, has gotten in the way of me turning those imagined blog posts into reality. For nearly two weeks, I was battling a super nasty bug which…
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Count Down
It’s February, Zara is four weeks old today. She’s still sleeping like a champ and we are just 10 days away from our big, big move. Our house looks like a war zone as we try to get everything packed in time all while managing two (super cute!) sisters and, on top of everything this…
