Colorado
Posts from our time living in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Mother’s Day
📍 ColoradoThere’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. Even our little bee was able to climb off the ground. I was at once amazed and terrified by her…
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Moving Forward
These two girls are my world. They make me happier than anything I ever could have imagined, and I feel so lucky to have them in my life. The last few months there have been a lot of challenging moments. A lot. I’ve realized that we are in one of the natural low points of the…
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Screen-Free Sundays
It’s been nearly two months of Sundays since I decided to go screen-free every Sunday as part of my 30 Before 30 goals. Two months later, I am still in love with the idea of having a day where I don’t check email, Facebook or Instagram, and where my girls don’t have to wait for me to…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Past Couple Weeks: Breech Birth Stories, Stand and Deliver — a great round up of links to breech birth stories, including one from an American living in England who chose a vaginal breech birth at an English hospital rather than a US military hospital. She said, “The secondary miracle is that an…
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Life As We Know It or Why Contracts for Deed are the Worst Thing Ever
I spent most of today in this very spot, staring at this very print. In fact, it was the subject of today’s photo for my 365 project. I had a couple of maintenance requests to fulfill for my lovely past clients, and I finished up both a logo and a new website so I spend…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Week: The Afterlife of Pia Farrenkopf, The New Yorker — This whole situation is just absurd and sad; this particular article looks how Ms. Farrenkopf kept “living” through her virtual doppelganger, and leads me to some interesting thoughts on the definition of self and identity. The Free-Marketing Gravy Train Is Over on…
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Some Recent Joy
Just in case you are wondering, this is going to be one of those photo dump posts… The weather has been flirting with spring, and the end of last week was quite lovely. I spend my birthday hiking around a new park with the girls and a tribe of mamas and little ones. The weather…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoFinds of the Week: Ten medical tests or treatments you should question as a parent, Boston.com — I especially like number 2: “Cough and cold medicines for children under the age of 4 years. They don’t really help, and they can have dangerous side effects. Go for the chicken soup, humidifier, and honey (for kids over…
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30 Before 30
Today I am 29 years old and just one year away from 30. While I’m not one to get distressed about the big 3-0, the last year of my twenties does seem like a pretty significant milestone to let go by unrecognized. So I thought, why not put together a list of things I would…
