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Sisters ♥️♥️♥️♥️ I grew up with all brothers. The only girl and oldest; I had 4 brothers close in age to me and then my mom and stepdad adopted two more boys when I was a freshman in college. I guess all that wishing for sisters resulted in 4 daughters. All the time when I…

I wish I could say there’s something exciting in the canning pot, but I’m just doing a little late-night boiling of diapers. These diapers are on baby four now and definitely were in need of a stripping – as was evidenced by all the soap bubbles in the pot – all of which came out…

7 going on 17. They grow up way too fast…this should not be allowed. I cannot get over how old my little bumblebee looks sometimes. I want to tell life to slow down but somehow it never works.  

Your baby doesn’t need a crib. This is something I never realized when I was pregnant with our first daughter. When I was pregnant with Nora, we set up a perfectly coordinated nursery with a crib and all the matching decor. Her room was on the second floor and our bedroom was on the first,…

65 hour work week ✔ Boat ride with Chris’ parents on Lake Austin ✔ It was most definitely a #workhardplayhard kind of week. Three more days ’till our new business launches…and then the marketing team (lead by me) gets a little bit of a break while the sales team (lead by Chris) hits the ground…

It’s Chris’ birthday today. Just like every other day he kept things running with the business and our family, making sure everyone got where they needed to go on time and well fed. His dad came over for dinner and while they were out piking up BBQ, Addie and I did manage to surprise him…

A little motivation for myself. We are in the midst of a huge push this month to launch a satellite brand. I’m on day who knows how many of work without a day off and having been working like crazy to draft content for the new website, develop processes and procedures, and refine pricing structures.…

I’ve been having fun coming up for different works for Addie to do at home, and this is one of her favorites. Matching people’s names with their picture. It’s not something she can do on her own yet, but it’s a fun way for us to start introducing letter sounds and move towards her being…

Everyone on Instagram is posting photos of pumpkins and beautiful trees and cozy sweaters, and I’m all like “Let’s go for an impromptu swim at the lake with friends.” Part of me feels a little left out that we don’t get fall down here and misses New England like crazy, but then I think: you…

This year has been overwhelming on so many fronts and I, like many parents, have been trying hard to stay upbeat and positive for my daughters, so they can be at least a little shielded from the anxiety we’re feeling about the state of the world. Today as I was chauffeuring the girls around to…

I don’t have sisters, only a boatload of brothers, and never had a large group of female friends in high school or college, so I’m approaching the years when we’ll have multiple teenage girls in our house with a measure of caution. I’m female, yes, but I’ve never surrounded myself with lots of other girls…

I have an eleven-year-old. At times I feel like Nora’s birthdays are celebrations, but also tiny losses. They’re bittersweet moments to marvel at future possibilities and find joy in the past year’s accomplishments, but also moments when I mourn the loss of tiny, sticky fingers reaching for my hand or slow, warm breath as she…