Yesterday, Phoenix turned 5 years old. I don’t usually recycle words, but I do think I said it best yesterday. To my wild one, the child with more personality than should be allowed to exist in one single body, the most literal and hilarious person I’ve ever met, the child with ZERO filter…and the sweetest […]
My husband and I are FAR from perfect. Just the other night, for instance, we got into a rather huge (or so it felt to me) …not argument…just more of an …uncomfortable experience…..where we were both uncomfortable talking about the health and future of our 12 month old son. I met my husband almost 9
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Atlas Isaac. Today, you turn one. To be honest, first birthdays are always a bit hard for me. There’s just something so special and so magical about the first year. Watching them learn and change so quickly, experiencing so many firsts together, it’s always been an emotional day for me. This one is no different.
He’s 51 weeks old. That means that next week, in 7 days…he turns one. And that’s a day I have been dreading for weeks now. More than likely, he’s my last. Our last baby, our last first birthday…and I hate it all so much. I’ve put off planning a party. Buying decorations. Coming up with
Whew. After an absolute whirlwind of a past few weeks, we DID in fact make it to NY to visit my best friend. We flew there on September 11th, despite the threats of hurricane Lee, and have been fucking BUSY every day since. I got home from my Funding Love trip at like 4:30pm on
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Love languages. How you feel love. If you’ve read the book or the articles, you know what I’m talking about. There are 5 different love languages: words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, and physical touch. My love language has definitely changed over the years, and even depending on who I’m with.
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I am pretty over all of this sick season. My 6 year old and 4 year old have been sick back to back pretty much since Thanksgiving. We took all 3 kids to the doctor yesterday where they got breathing treatments and chest xrays. My 6 year old has a double ear infection and bronchiolitis.
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You, me, your friends, your family…that one person who you think is so epically flawless and put together….Every single one of us struggle. Yes, some more than others, but at times, all of us. No one is immune to it. No one skates through this life without collecting their own set of scars and cuts
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This morning, I asked my 5 year old son “what would you do if you could plan a perfect day?” He smiled, not really sure why I was asking him, and threw the question back at me. “Hmm, well, I don’t know. What do you think?“ I told him I didn’t know. That he would
6 years ago today, I married my best friend. Last year we started the tradition of going “away” for our anniversary to celebrate. Really, all that consists of is staying in a hotel 20 minutes from our house, but hey. It’s a kidless weekend, and that’s the best kind of weekend that there is. Overall,
An anniversary staycation, and the realities of a Sunday. Read More »
