Texas
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Sweet Nephew, Wade
Loving on my tiny nephew who I helped bring into the world on Sunday. I was a doula for his birth, as I was for his older brother’s and sister’s births. It was the most intense and stressful of the births I’ve participated in over the past few years, but all ended well and mom…
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Zara’s Thirteen Birthday
Zara turned thirteen! We celebrated with a mango raspberry cake at my mom’s house on our way back from our Christmas road trip and a ferrero rocher (chocolate hazelnut) cake that I made on her birthday at home. Nothing beats two birthday celebrations… And just like that, we have two teenagers.
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Cookie Season is here…
Selling Girl Scout cookies was my first introduction to sales, goal setting, and money management. I loved it. As a parent, I am less enthusiastic about cookie sales… It’s about to be that time again. You’re looking at my chauffeuring/bookkeeping side hustle for the next 6 weeks. Zara’s goal is to sell 1600 boxes. This…
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How to Import Instagram Posts into WordPress
How I migrated all my Instagram posts into my WordPress blog.
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A Visit with Santa
Addie and Vivi wanted to go visit Santa, so we headed down to breakfast with Santa at our neighborhood community center today. They each gave him letters and Vivi had tons of questions for him about how he gets around the world and whether she can get her own living reindeer for Christmas.
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Stroll Parade 2024
It’s raining and cold today, but we bundled up to watch Nora and Addie in the Christmas parade.
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Gratitude in 2024
During Thanksgiving dinner, as we ate a fantastic meal and shared what we were thankful for, Nora reminded me of the Thankful Trees that we used to make. Thankful Trees Thankful Trees were part of the 30 Days of Thanks practice I had before life got busy with entrepreneurship and four kids. Every day, starting…
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4 Before 40
The featured image for this blog post captures me trying to make light of a stressful situation. TLDR: I’m fine but thinking more thoughtfully about the months and years ahead. The backstory… Two weeks ago, we moved houses. We moved out of the first home we bought in Texas post-full-time travel trailer living—the house where…
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Pennybacker Boat Selfie
Right now: celebrating Nora’s birthday with a boat ride on Lake Austin. Full post coming later today.
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Dance Competition Multi-Tasking
Hanging out at the last dance competition of the year working on WordPress Accessibility Day stuff in between dances.
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Hanging with Amelia
Seventeen months ago, I got to help welcome this sweet girl into the world. Today she and I are hanging out while her brother joins the family, this time at home. ♥️
