Tag: family
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Here Comes Autumn! How I’m Keeping My Kids as Healthy as Possible
Our son woke up with a stuffy nose this morning. We made it 5 weeks into the school year before it happened — and honestly that is a win in my book. Being in Kindergarten I think I was bracing for the fa ct we’d only make it a week or two before those new class, more…
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Memorable Family Moments: Our Destin Adventure
Making big family shifts when faced with adversity We looked at each other last fall and just knew. Neither of us had anything left. The summer had left us battered and bruised, for the first time in our marriage our energy was unbalanced. We thought the plan was going to be helpful: keep Z home,…
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Finding Calm Amid Holiday Chaos: Reflections on Family
Rooms simple, clean, and festive. Twinkling lights brighten the rooms and hints of red, green, and white glaze the normally neutral tones of our home. A stocking hangs on either side of the TV and embroidered with the letters ‘E’ and ‘Z’. It’s 4:30am on Tuesday morning as I push start on the coffee machine.…
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So You Ate a Lot for Thanksgiving and Now You’re Heading Straight into Christmas Cookie Season…
Let’s be honest, you can ‘detox’ from Thanksgiving all you want, but the reality is that you are looking Christmas Cookies in the face just a few days later. As a food-focused society we cycle into the unimaginable — eat a lot, detox, eat a lot, detox, eat a lot : Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years we…
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The Hope for Year 2, After the Fury of Year 1
Hopeful, cautiously optimistic, anxious and every emotion in between. I clenched my jaw as the season turned. I remember it. I remember it well. The scars etched in my brain possibly forever, at least for awhile. Year one was nothing I have ever experienced and nothing I want to go back to. In October of…
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Embracing Forever, an Ebook on Adoption Tips & Resources is Almost Here!
When I started compiling the notes from our adoption journey writing a short form ebook about it wasn’t necessarily at the top of my list, what was on my list was to try to consolidate the process in more ways than one. Grants, paperwork, training all replicated over and over there had to be a…
Fueling Her Forward 