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Fort Collins, CO
Business Ownership, Motherhood
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August 19, 2017

Maternity Leave for Small Business Owners

On 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 breastfeedin[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Business Ownership, Motherhood
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October 28, 2014

Torn: Stay at Home Mom, Working Mom, and Everything In-Between

Tuesday has become one of my favorite days of the week.  We get up, I pack lunches for not one but two little girls, then I drop them both off at their respective schools and return to a quiet house where I have six blissful hours wit[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Motherhood
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July 2, 2014

Family Planning

Days are speeding by and we are nearly at Zara's half birthday, which means the littlest member of our family is almost 18 month old.  Instead of buying her just any old book for her half birthday present, I decided to put make a photo book[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Life, Motherhood
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May 21, 2014

Mother’s Day

There's been a lot of perfection lately. Monday we had fun discovering a new park after an awesomely killer stroller strides class.  There was gorgeous summer weather, friends, and a fossil-filled wall perfect for climbing.[...]

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Gillette, WY
Life, Motherhood
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October 9, 2013

Some Random Happiness

My sleep schedule is all sorts of messed up and I've been living off peanut-studded brownies with peanut butter frosting, but the last few days I have felt so incredibly happy.  Here's a little bit of the random happiness I've been feeling[...]

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Gillette, WY
Life, Motherhood, Parenting
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August 5, 2013

Exhaustion and Mommy Guilt

In 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 a[...]

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Gillette, WY
Birth, Breastfeeding, Motherhood, Parenting
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June 19, 2013

Building a Parenting Library — Recommended Reading

I mentioned awhile ago that I received a $500 grant to start our La Leche League library.  I had a lot of fun thinking about the books I would recommend to local moms and what was helpful to me the first or second time around.  Of cou[...]

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Gillette, WY
Motherhood
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April 17, 2013

Breathless

There are moments as a parent when I just don't know how to breathe. Sweet moments when the breathlessness accompanies deep rivers of love, like when I melt at the perfect baby girl nursing in my arms.  When her dark gray eyes lock into[...]

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Feb 22

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Just a picture of the sweetest little girl at nap time. ♥️

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Feb 21

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Bath time with ambiance a la #ERCOT. 

Luckily we have not been affected by the water issues so many others have experienced. I finally decided to bathe the little girls for the first time in over a week (with a tiny amount of water, I promise) and the power went out again. We got out a lantern and decided to just roll with it. At least it's not below 30 anymore and I managed to get the diapers washed earlier today when we thought things were back to normal.

Maybe this is the universe's way of making sure I don't stay up until 2AM working?

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Feb 17

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#snowpocalypse and poor planning on the part of the Texas Electric grid means we're experiencing a candle lit evening. So far every one is still having fun and it's not too cold in here yet so we're calling it an adventure.

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Feb 15

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Well this is something I never thought I would see... a second real snow in the same winter. This one is light and powdery and is promising to hang around for most of the week thanks to freezing temperatures. There are no plows or salt/sand trucks down here so we're all locked in and enjoying an old fashioned snow day.

I figured I had to bundle Vivienne up and take her picture in the snow just so I can prove to her that once we had a real winter in Texas.

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Zara made a #texassnowman - tiny, full of grass and leaves, but a legit snowman. 😂 We have the fastest snowflakes I've ever seen falling down here right now and could get up to 4 inches! The girls are over the moon.
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