Our garden didn’t do great this year. Partly because I over planted our raised beds and the plants didn’t have room to thrive and partly because Doug put bird feeders in our backyard and they attract both birds and deer. We got a handful of tomatoes and a couple of zucchini early in the season, […]
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We travel a fair amount. We travel by air five to six times a year and usually take a road trip or two and for the past five years we’ve either been traveling with a baby or a toddler. It’s also worth noting that I like to be prepared for nearly every contingency, especially if
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Hello, friends. Despite my best intentions of writing while on vacation, I didn’t complete a single blog post in the 16 days that we were gone. I knew the first week of our trip would be busy, so I didn’t expect that I would have a chance to write much then, but I had these
Father’s Day has been a hard day for me since my Dad, Steve’s, death in 2017, and the difficulty has been compounded since losing Birdie. Before Rosalie died losing my Dad when he was 67 and I was 33 seemed like the most unfair thing in the world. After Birdie’s death, it still seems incredibly
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I’ve mentioned before that my Mom is a talented cook. In addition to be talented, she loves to cook and gets joy from feeding people. Every time she’s here she fills my freezer with yummy food to help make our lives easier. In the winter she makes us comfort food: chicken pot pies, casseroles, mashed
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Our Penny Girl (aka: Penelope, Penny Wiggles, Pen-Pen, Pretty Penny, Penny Metronome, or Penny the Pisser) went across the rainbow bridge, at the age of five, yesterday. Penny was recently diagnosed with osteosarcoma and the disease progressed quickly and we were no longer able to keep her comfortable while maintaining her quality of life. Penny
I’ve always been a reader. For as long as I can remember, one of my favorite days to spend a day is curled up in a comfy spot with a book. The season of life that I’m currently in doesn’t allow for as much reading as I would like, but I still am able to
Monday was Rosalie’s birthday, she should have been five years old. Monday was also my Dad’s birthday, he should have been 73 years old. In my view, both of them are too young to be gone, and they both should have been here to celebrate their shared birthday on Earth. After enduring more than a
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I feel like it’s important to lead with, I never planned to be a mom who doesn’t work outside of the home. In my mind, I was going to have it all – the big job, the family, two Great Danes, and it was all going to work perfectly. When Rosalie was a baby, even
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Food is important in our household. If you know my mom, you know that I was well fed growing up. My mom is an excellent cook and she made sure that we had real meals, made from whole foods, and many things were made from scratch. As I’ve gotten older I’ve worked to emulate the
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