Category: family life
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Life lately: it’s March {2021}
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” Muhammad Ali We did something new as a family: indoor rock climbing! This was a fun outing to celebrate our youngest son’s 12th birthday. It was a first for us all, and we all got a chance to…
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It’s a new year – finally!
The year wasn’t all bad for us, but it certainly had challenges. There’s been so much talk about everyone being excited for a new year, but things don’t feel different to me just because we flipped the calendar. Even so, I’m glad to see the tail end of 2020. We smoked ourselves out of the…
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How is it already November?
I decided a while back that I had shifted to writing here on my personal blog whenever time allows and the urge strikes. Unfortunately, most of the time the two don’t happen simultaneously, so here we are. family life We had two birthdays since my last post. One became a teen; one phased out of…
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Life lately: hello June
I’ve certainly not avoided difficult topics here but this little corner of blogland is still unapologetically a place I use to share the highlight reel of my family’s life. This is one of those posts — the highlights — despite everything else going on in the world. family life My biggest news, personally, is that…
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Life lately: it’s been weird
I don’t have to tell you life has been super weird these past couple of months. Who knew I’d turn out to be such a trendsetter when I bought this shirt last year? I’ve decided I miss my corner of blogland so I’m promising myself to write here at least once a month. I started…