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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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Life Right Now

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I started a podcast with Chris and our business partner, Steve! We'll be releasing episodes every Monday on website accessibility and craft beverages. Check it out or subscribe at AccessibilityCraft.com.

#podcast #podcaster #accessibility #accessibilityforall #accessibilitymatters #accessible #a11y #WordPress #webdesign #webdevelopment #websitedesign #ux #usability

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It's that time again... Girl Scout cookies! And this year we have two selling. Help them meet their cookies sales goals by ordering online. 

If you live nearby, choose girl delivery and help get cookie boxes out of our garage... Otherwise we're going to be giving them Girl Scout  Cookies for birthday and Christmas presents all year.

Addie's link: https://tinyurl.com/2os3rmdy

Zara's link: https://tinyurl.com/2nev4fs3

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Bus stop selfie with Nora. This week she moved from her tiny charter school with only 18 eighth graders to the public middle school with over 200. And now she rides the bus.

The charter school wasn't challenging her enough, has a huge percentage of students who are disruptive in the classroom, and has been having trouble keeping teachers. Last year she loved it. But this year it was one thing after another, so right before Thanksgiving she and I went to go tour our neighborhood  middle school, and she immediately wanted to make the switch.

We've never had a kid in public school and I was nervous about how the transition would go from such a small school to a big one, but so far she's loving it and is glad she decided to move schools. It helps that she knows kids there already from her dance team. Hopefully she'll still be happy when she starts getting homework. Coming from a no homework school that may be a shock to us all.

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My three year old girl. ๐Ÿ’•

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Halloween 2022. Two witches, a murderous cat, and a creepy Victorian doll. 

Zara's costume was my favorite this year - Nora did her makeup and she wore my flower girl dress from my mom and step-dad's wedding. She might have worn it better. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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