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    April Goals 2020: A Letter on Showing Up

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    March Goals 2020

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    February Goals 2020

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    My Word of the Year 2020

    It took quite a bit of energy, brainstorming, and hard work for me to finally feel…

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    January Goals 2020

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    December Goals 2019

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    November Goals 2019

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    October Goals 2019

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    Goals for September 2019

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    Love Led Me to Tomatoes: Becoming a Less Picky Eater

    When I was a little girl, I was an extremely picky eater. I’m pretty sure there…

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One of my favorite videos of all time. His laughte One of my favorite videos of all time. His laughter is one of my favorite sounds in the whole world. ❤️ I thought it deserved a permanent spot on my grid.
A handful of gratitude for a late Monday evening - A handful of gratitude for a late Monday evening - ✨ lovely adult conversation and delicious breakfast with a friend ✨ only one more overnight moonlighting shift for Paul before he’s back home with us ✨ having a great new babysitter put the boys to bed tonight so I could sneak out and play tennis for a bit ✨ discovering 3 episodes that I had missed of Gray’s Anatomy from this past season and binge watching while I catch up on folding laundry ✨ peeking in on the boys before I head to bed and tucking them in one more time while I say a little prayer for how thankful I am to be their mama. ➡️ What’s on your list?
Today I built a lego fire truck from scratch. Noah Today I built a lego fire truck from scratch. Noah has been obsessed with tiny legos (he’s recently leveled up from duplos) for about a month now. He has his heart fixed on a huge fire truck set that costs $$$ and he’s asked me every day for a week now if he can look at it on Amazon, how many days until Christmas, and also all the ways he can earn money to buy it before then. I asked him why not try to use his imagination to build it and he insisted he doesn’t have the “right parts” despite having a whole bucket full of parts (and several other fire truck sets!!). 😑 Here’s a truth about me: Sometimes I find it difficult to “play” with my kids. I love to rough-house and play board games and chase, have tickle fights and play hide-n-seek, and build with just abt anything. But there are some games they want to play that I just don’t enjoy. Playing cars and video games are just a couple of them 🙀 and honestly, those are their favorites. Some days I feel discouraged by how unmotivated I am to “play” - and while they are incredible at independent play, they still ask me to join them A LOT. When I’m not into it, I tend to make a lot of excuses. One trick that I’ve learned works pretty well for me is to offer to play what *I* enjoy. (This doesn’t mean I don’t ever play cars or video games 🤪 just that I occasionally try to persuade them to play things that we find mutually enjoyable). Today we spent over an hour building this fire truck and Noah was so proud and pleased. He was encouraging and positive the whole time we were working together saying to me “Mama you’re doing a really great job! You’re working so hard on that! It looks so good!” It was awesome quality time (my love language) and I had so much fun with him. Hopefully now he will stop pestering me to buy him the other set 😂 haha (unlikely) but more importantly, I hope we both remember how fun it is to work together, use our imaginations, and find ways to enjoy our time with one another. I like saying “yes” to playing and it’s good for me too. I hope I remember to take time to stop and get down on the floor with my kids more often and simply PLAY. ❤️
A handful of gratitude for a late Monday evening ✨ • when the weather clears up just in time for tennis after a long day of rain • a Mama/son date with my littlest little and his delightful giggles • a weekend spent laughing, lounging, and catching up with extended family • trying out these new daily marriage check-ins that leave our cups fuller • the way puppy’s tail wags when she get to be the center of attention after the kids go to bed at night What’s on your list? ✨
The cutest little cousin crew I know ❤️ 📷: The cutest little cousin crew I know ❤️ 📷: Aunt @katimallory
I’ve been feeling really out of sync with bloggi I’ve been feeling really out of sync with blogging lately. I’m not sure what my resistance has been although I know some of it has to do with the fact that it’s been so long since I was blogging consistently that the lapse of time has become daunting for me. Kind of like when you need to reconnect with an old friend and you keep procrastinating when you’ll call them because you think you’ll find a “better” window when you can really dedicate yourself to catching up. All I know is that I want to get back into again and I don’t want to wait for a better window. ❤️ In a conversation with a friend recently, I was thinking about the many reasons I wanted to start a blog in the first place all those years ago. Connection has always been a huge motivator and definitely my love of writing - blogging has always been an incredible creative outlet for me. But another very important reason that I tend to neglect is utilizing my blog as a place to document our days. A place where I can keep memories and photos and writing so that I can return time and time again almost like a digital scrapbook of some sort. The past couple of months I have been thinking about starting something like this so I decided to create a Monthly Archives series. This will be a place where I can post photos and memories of things I want to remember from the month and share some of our adventures! I’m hoping that by doing this monthly, it will not only help me get back into the swing of blogging again, but also help me follow through with one of my main intentions in creating this space in the first place. I am really excited about it and I hope you will enjoy it too! >> New Post up on the blog today, link in bio!
Day 10 prompt for our #searchforsunshinechallenge Day 10 prompt for our #searchforsunshinechallenge - Summer in Six Words // Spending summer basking in their sunshine ☀️
Day 9 prompt for our #searchforsunshinechallenge - Day 9 prompt for our #searchforsunshinechallenge - Childhood Summers // This is what I want for them. To spend their summers visiting family and friends. Traveling, laughing, swimming, snuggling, seeing new places. Looking forward to these trips all through the year (like I did as a kid). Making lifelong friendships with their cousins and their parents’ best friends. Bonding with their aunts and uncles and grandparents and godparents. Feeling absolutely soaked in love. These are the childhood summers I wish for them. The memories I want to help create, the people I want to share with them. ”You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you." - Frederick Buechner
Day 8 prompt for our #searchforsunshinechallenge - Day 8 prompt for our #searchforsunshinechallenge - The Magic of Summertime // cue exhibit A. ✨
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