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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…

What school looks like these days. We set up a temporary folding table desk in our living room so they could have a focus space outside their room and brought our printer home from the office. It works and the two of them are doing an amazing job at self motivating and staying focused…but we…

With the start of school, I forgot to take a 9 month picture of Vivienne but these were only a couple of days early so I’m going to call them good. She had a check up today and was 17lbs and solidly 30th percentile for both length and weight, so her tiny days are far…

I don’t have a good caption for this photo, but I it. My little family (maybe not so little anymore) makes me feel so happy and thankful. We finally had family photos taken since Vivi was born and I think the photographer did such a great job. She’s not on Instagram or I would tag…

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on my own online presence in addition to client work. Last week I somewhat sneakily launched a new website for myself, which I’m sure no one noticed considering I haven’t blogged in nearly 2 years. Yesterday, I published a blog post! With the crazy-pants year that we’re…

First day of school photo for Addie + a peek into what Montessori at home looks like. Chris and I made the tough decision to withdraw Addie from school this year. We don’t think that she will engage well with any sort of remote learning and don’t think that she’ll do well with having to…

My Zara Bee and the #russiannestingdolls #quilt my mom made her. ♥️

This week is a huge first for us…we let Chris’ little sister take Nora to her house in Fort Worth for a week of girl time. We’ve been getting photo dispatches from both Nora and her aunt, and I’m surprisingly holding it together. I still can’t believe that I’m about to have a sixth grader.…