Colorado
Posts from our time living in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Family Planning
in Motherhood📍 ColoradoDays 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 of her birth story, which is something I hope…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Week: Before Learning to Crawl, You Must Learn to Swim, NY Times — The pictures are cool, but I’m still very skeptical about these infant swim classes given how secretive they are about their methods I Sent All My Text Messages in Calligraphy for a Week, The Atlantic — Just cool, and…
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Vegetarian Polenta Casserole (Freezer Meal Recipe)
I’m in a local moms group and one of our newest activities is a freezer meal swap. Last week, we had our first swap and it has been awesome to have ready-made homemade dinners waiting in my freezer. I loved that I was able to spend an hour cooking one meal, but ended up with four…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Week: Immunized People Getting Whooping Cough, KPBS — “Most of the people who got whooping cough in San Diego County so far this year were up to date with their immunizations, according to county data. Of the 621 people who contracted the illness, 85 percent had all their preventative shots — calling…
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Father’s Day Weekend
Sometimes I still miss salty air and the sound of the ferry boat leaving the harbor — most likely, I will forever miss the ocean and rhythm of days 30 miles out-to-sea. But here, in Colorado, with rivers, fresh mountain air, and a town full of fun things to do, I can almost forget that I…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Week 17 Books to Read Before the Movie Hits Theatres This Year, Hello Giggles — a bunch of books to add to my reading list! A Fight as U.S. Girls Face Genital Cutting Abroad, NY Times — Holy cow, I had no idea Her Party, The New Yorker — an essay from…
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Divided Attention Is Better Than No Attention
There was a post on Motherlode last week arguing that we should give kids our undivided attention or none at all. The author called for parents to eliminate the “vast middle ground of half paying attention to them all the time — e.g., checking your email for just long enough that they finally wander off…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Week: The day I left my son in the car, Salon — This has been going around Facebook so you may have already seen it. I will admit to having left the girls in the car on occasion in very specific conditions. I cannot believe this. Men Are Drinking Breast Milk. For…
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This and That
I have lost track of what has been said and what hasn’t. The last few weeks have been so filled with ups and downs, good and bad, big, exciting moments and little wonderful ones. Did I ever update you on our house? We went up to Gillette at the end of April, did some work on…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Week: The Art of Mending, The New Yorker — Love this essay from Gabrielle Selz 17 Things People Born In 1982, 1983, And 1984 Are Going Through Right Now, Thought Catalog — I’m getting old Who Best to Plan a Surprise Party for a Teenager? Not Mom, Motherlode — This is coming…
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The Latest Path in Our Journey
The last few weeks, we have found ourselves walking down a very unexpected path. The short story is that I have a nodule on my thyroid for which I am about to undergo a second round of testing to hopefully rule out cancer. The longer version of the story goes something like this: Two years…
