Wyoming
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Prairie Flowers
I don’t have much energy to write, although there are a million and one things I’d like to write about: World Breastfeeding Week, the county fair, planning our upcoming homeschool year, the house being done (at least as far as phase one is concerned), just to name a few. But there’s barely any time left…
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Exhaustion and Mommy Guilt
📍 WyomingIn my 28 years, I have moved nearly 20 times. I lived in nine different houses in three different states before graduating from high school. Once I went to college, I did the traditional move every year, and in the six years Chris and I have been married, we have lived in four different states…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: ‘Crack baby’ study ends with unexpected but clear result, The Philadelphia Inquirer — It turns out that in-utero exposure to crack is significantly less harmful to children than is poverty From our 2006 archives: Why I no longer believe babies should cry themselves to sleep, the Globe and Mail — “When…
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Buttermilk Biscuits + Our Lovely New Kitchen
📍 WyomingI am in love with our new kitchen. It’s light and bright. It’s big and spacious. It’s the first kitchen we have ever had that actually fits every one of our appliances, kitchen tools and cooking utensils, with room to spare. It has double ovens, just waiting for Chris to fill with all sorts of…
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I Give Up — A.K.A The Photo Dump Post
I give up. I have finally accepted the fact that real, actual blogging is just not going to happen anytime soon — but what should I expect? I’m moving for the second time in six months, with a preschooler, a baby, and a husband who works 70+ hours per week. This life is not exactly…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Last (where are we…three?) Weeks: ‘A Beautiful Body’ Book Project: Jade Beall, Photographer, Celebrates Mothers’ Real Bodies (PHOTOS), Huffington Post — beautiful photos celebrating the less than “perfect” bodies of mothers. A Daddy’s Letter to his Little Girl About Her Future Husband, Viral Nova — Just wonderful. Former Insurance Exec Offers An…
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Red, White, and Blue Double Strawberry Shortcakes
📍 WyomingWe are out having lots of Fourth of July fun, (here’s a sneak peek) but I thought I might actually plan ahead and have a blog post appear anyway. (Imagine that!) This delicious little cupcake is what the big people in our family ate to celebrate Miss Zara being halfway to one (almost). We jumped…
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