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    Family Mountain Getaway

    Every autumn our family takes a couple of days to visit the mountains of North Carolina.…

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    Family Night

    Back in 2020, during a brainstorming session to come up with some special rituals for our…

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    Favorite Autumn Children’s Books

    I love rotating our kids books seasonally. Mainly because it feels so exciting and new when…

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    Celebrating Hope

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    May/June Monthly Archives (2021)

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    10 Mother’s Day Gifts Any Mom Will Love

    Mother’s Day is just around the corner, can you believe it?! I’ve been thinking a lot…

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    15 Awesome Easter Basket Ideas

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    5 Favorite Valentine’s Books for Tiny Book Lovers

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    How to Send a Hug

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    Our Favorite Christmas Books

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Eliza B.
A while back I was brainstorming things I want to A while back I was brainstorming things I want to share in this space. I had a whole list of ideas - quotes, photographs I take, stories of our life I want to document, conversations that create connections w others, my love of letter-writing, books, family, things that inspire me, that I feel grateful for… the list goes on. One big part I want to capture and include here is space for truth and vulnerability. So often we see the cookie-cutter version of life in these squares and stories. I’ve always appreciated the “what you see is what you get” aspect of my personality. But I also recognize that these squares don’t always reflect the realities of our closest and most protected truths. That there is a lot left unspoken and unshared to wonder about. I have never been one to stop and photograph my child when they are crying or distraught. I rarely have my film rolling during a meltdown or tantrum. These are pieces of my experience with motherhood that I protect from broadcasting on the internet, not because I want to hide them or pretend like we don’t experience pleeeenty of that around here, but rather because they are very private moments to me. I respect the fact that we all get to chose what we share and don’t share in this space. It is ultimately within us to choose places we want to be vulnerable and the places we keep tucked up against our hearts. All this is to say, I always want to keep things real around here. What you see is such a small window into our lives. It’s mostly the bright shiny moments I live to capture on camera! But I never want to mislead you to believe that we don’t have have plenty of the rough, down-and-dirty, challenging, heart wrenching, tantrum throwing (sometimes even from the kids!), mistake-making, regrets and resentments, anxiety and worrying, fights in the kitchen over dumb shit like how to organize the fridge kind of stuff around here too. We are so incredibly blessed. Our family loves each other big and hard. We celebrate our ordinary moments and we ground ourselves in gratitude. And sometimes we also scream and yell and cry ourselves to sleep. We are only human after all. ❤️
Yay for day 2 of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday b Yay for day 2 of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday book giveaway! To enter for a chance to win one of our favorite holiday books today, comment below with your favorite holiday movie! For me, it depends on what vibe I’m going for! I love Elf and National Lampoon’s Xmas vacation. Home Alone is one we always watch during the holidays. And if you haven’t watched Fred Claus yet, that’s another one I reeeally like! One year Paul took me to a cool historical movie theater in Chicago for a date night and we watched It’s a Wonderful Life. It was his first time seeing it and the ending brought him to tears which made me fall in love with him all over again that night. Such a great movie. 🎥 🍿🎄 If you win today, I’ll send you a dm by tomorrow morning. And if you don’t win today, check back in tomorrow for another chance. I’ll be choosing one winner each day for the next 10 days. //  Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert E. Barry. First published in 1963, this heartwarming story was one of the handful of new books we added to our collection last year. It quickly became a favorite. The rhyming tale is quite engaging, and the sweet vintage-appeal of the illustrations is idyllic. A Christmas tree just a bit too tall gets trimmed and passed along to a whole community, from Mr. Willowby to Mistletoe Mouse. This book truly brings to life the adage of “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
Happy first day of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday Happy first day of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday book giveaway! To enter for a chance to win one of our favorite holiday books today, drop your favorite holiday emojis in the comments! That’s it! ✨🎄❤️🎅📚 If you’ve won, I’ll send you a dm by tomorrow morning. And if you don’t win today, check back in tomorrow for how to enter. I’ll be choosing one winner each day for the next 11 days. // Construction Site on Christmas Night by Sherri Duskey Rinker - This book will amaze any truck or construction lover (of any age). It transitions through the main roles of each construction vehicle and the gifts each one receives for the upcoming year. Think: a new scoop for the excavator, new tires for the dump truck! The highlight of the book is when we discover at the end, that the trucks have been working hard to complete a very important job by Christmas – a new fire station!
Every year in December our family does a Christmas Every year in December our family does a Christmas book advent. I wrap up all of our favorite holiday books individually in festive paper and each night our boys take turns choosing one to unwrap. Then we curl up in cozy pjs beside the twinkle of Christmas tree lights and read together. There is something truly magical about reading together as a family - I believe it is a really special way for us to celebrate the spirit of the season. Our Christmas book advent has become one of our most beloved holiday traditions. ✨ This year, I want to bring some of that holiday spirit and magic to you and your family. Each day for 12 days, as our boys unwrap their book, I will be giving away a copy of the same book to one lucky winner! 12 days, 12 different books, and one winner each day. It’s a busy time of year for all of us, so I’m making it super simple and FUN to participate. Just follow along on my posts for the next 12 days to find out how to get entered for that day. There’s even a bonus too! 🎄 If you share this post today (11/30) and tag me, you will automatically be entered to win a copy of our favorite book that we love to kick off the holiday season with - Pick a Pine Tree by Patricia Toht. I’m so excited about this giveaway and I hope you will be too! Happy Holidays everyone! ❤️ ** Giveaway is limited to participants only in the US.
✨ Pick a Pine Tree by Patricia Toht is one of ou ✨ Pick a Pine Tree by Patricia Toht is one of our all time holiday favorites! We save it every year specifically to read on the day we go get our Christmas tree! And TODAY is the day!! As you can see, Noah is VERY excited (about the book AND getting our tree!). We received this one as a gift from Aunt Kati a few years ago and it has been a big hit ever since! When I was young, our family went together to a Christmas Tree farm each year to cut a live tree. In this book, that tradition lives on – a family goes to pick a pine tree and takes it home to decorate for the Christmas season. The story is told through rhyme and illustrated in bright festive colors. Each year our family goes to “pick a pine tree” and this book certainly gets us in the Christmas spirit every season! Have you read this one yet? 🎄❤️📚 // We are about to start our annual Christmas book advent and this year I am going to be hosting a 12 Days of Christmas Children’s book giveaway (aaahhh I’m so excited to tell you all the deets!!) More info coming soon - keep a look out over the next few days!
It’s Friday and that means… FAMILY NIGHT!! Bac It’s Friday and that means… FAMILY NIGHT!! Back in 2020, during a brainstorming session to come up with some special rituals for our family, Paul and I fell in love with the idea of creating a designated weekly “Family Night.” We decided this could be something fairly simple to implement and easy to “age-up” as our kids get older. So we picked Fridays as our night, started it that week, and have done it ever since! This is especially fun for us during the holidays because there are so many ways to level up our fun! Here’s what we do: Each week we rotate who gets to be the “main chooser” for the evening. That person gets to pick the kind of pizza we order (or if we want to make homemade pizzas!), the movie we watch, what dessert to eat, and what fun activity we will do before bedtime. We start looking forward to them early in the week, building anticipation by asking the “chooser” what they think they will want to do for the night and planning accordingly. I’m on the blog today sharing all kinds of ideas for how to level up your Family Nights this holiday season! >> Link in bio ❤️🎄🍕🍪☃️❄️
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy // So grateful for you and all the light and love you share with me in this space. I am so thankful for this community and the solidarity and support we find together here. And for the opportunity to share our stories with one another. May we find continued grace and hold space for each other with compassion and empathy. May we ground ourselves in rituals and gratitude. May we stand up for what we believe in with love and integrity. And may we always find our way back to the beautiful ordinary moments of our days. Happy Thanksgiving friends. ❤️ 📷 : @kmjphoto
🍽 As a kid my favorite thanksgiving dish was al 🍽 As a kid my favorite thanksgiving dish was always mashed potatoes with gravy. Back then I never understood the hype around the turkey… I assumed it must be a groan-up thing. Then one year Paul and I spent Thxgvg in Chicago and our friends invited us for dinner. @sarahhaynieclark cooked the best turkey I’d ever eaten! And from that year forward, I’ve used her recipe (that she so lovingly shared) to prepare our turkey. That was the year I learned to appreciate the turkey hype and officially “leveled up” in adulting. Of course, I’m still a huuuuuge mashed potatoes and gravy fan though! What’s your favorite thanksgiving dish? 🤤❤️
My favorite little crew of cousins 💙 #simplegr My favorite little crew of cousins 💙 #simplegram // 📷 : @katimallory
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