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September 6, 2020

To Nora, at Eleven

Today is Nora's eleventh birthday. 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[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Life
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August 26, 2015

First Day of First Grade

This morning my biggest girl started 1st grade.  She moved from the primary classroom to an elementary classroom at her Montessori school, which means she will be learning alongside not just other first graders, but also second, third[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Film Friday
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September 12, 2014

Film Friday: Conversations with Zara

I promised some more videos of Zara, so here's a little idea of what a conversation with her is like at 20 months.  This video was taken the last week of August, just before she stared going to "school."   And for fun, here is[...]

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Nora blowing out candles on her Frozen cake
Fort Collins, CO
Film Friday
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September 7, 2014

Nora at 5

Nora is 5!! We celebrated her birthday today with a party with friends.  The theme was Frozen, of course, because it is her favorite thing (like all pretty much every other five-year-old American girl) and I've given up fighting the Disney[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
Recipes & Canning
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March 11, 2014

Rhubarb Cupcakes + Nora is 4 1/2!

Last Thursday, Nora turned four and a half.  Looking at this picture, I can't help but think how wise she is -- some of the things she says to me are just amazing, and I wonder how can she only be 4 1/2?  But other moments I find[...]

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Gillette, WY
Life
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September 11, 2013

Fourth Birthday Carnival

Sunday we had Nora's fourth birthday party.  Since she is all about the clowns on our street, we decided to have a carnival theme for her party.  I had a ton of fun putting together all of the decorations for her party, from our carnival[...]

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Gillette, WY
Film Friday, Life
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September 10, 2013

Hello, Four

Nora has been four for four days now.  We celebrated with our usual family breakfast of her choice before Chris went to work.  She chose the exact same thing as last year: cinnamon rolls and berries, which we ate picnic style on our d[...]

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Gillette, WY
Life
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September 6, 2013

Throwback Thursday: A Note to Nora

I'm using "Throwback Thursday" as an excuse to post this amazing photo by Melissa Surprise of Surprise Photography. It is officially Friday morning, September 6th, (but still Thursday in my book since I have not yet gone to bed) and I si[...]

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Feb 7

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I started a podcast with Chris and our business partner, Steve! We'll be releasing episodes every Monday on website accessibility and craft beverages. Check it out or subscribe at AccessibilityCraft.com.

#podcast #podcaster #accessibility #accessibilityforall #accessibilitymatters #accessible #a11y #WordPress #webdesign #webdevelopment #websitedesign #ux #usability

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It's that time again... Girl Scout cookies! And this year we have two selling. Help them meet their cookies sales goals by ordering online. 

If you live nearby, choose girl delivery and help get cookie boxes out of our garage... Otherwise we're going to be giving them Girl Scout  Cookies for birthday and Christmas presents all year.

Addie's link: https://tinyurl.com/2os3rmdy

Zara's link: https://tinyurl.com/2nev4fs3

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Bus stop selfie with Nora. This week she moved from her tiny charter school with only 18 eighth graders to the public middle school with over 200. And now she rides the bus.

The charter school wasn't challenging her enough, has a huge percentage of students who are disruptive in the classroom, and has been having trouble keeping teachers. Last year she loved it. But this year it was one thing after another, so right before Thanksgiving she and I went to go tour our neighborhood  middle school, and she immediately wanted to make the switch.

We've never had a kid in public school and I was nervous about how the transition would go from such a small school to a big one, but so far she's loving it and is glad she decided to move schools. It helps that she knows kids there already from her dance team. Hopefully she'll still be happy when she starts getting homework. Coming from a no homework school that may be a shock to us all.

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My three year old girl. 💕

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Halloween 2022. Two witches, a murderous cat, and a creepy Victorian doll. 

Zara's costume was my favorite this year - Nora did her makeup and she wore my flower girl dress from my mom and step-dad's wedding. She might have worn it better. 😂
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