^^^singing into a trampoline leg, cause you know, it’s totally a microphone too.^^^
“i really like rescue treats.” (talking about rice krispy treats.)
“eleanor, how’d you get your owie on your face?” “i don’t know…. maybe from a cat.”
“samson, how was your nap?” samson doesn’t answer. silence. “ask me how my nap was, samson!”
“that red juice was a little bit spicy.” (it was beet and ginger juice.) “is it too spicy, E?...
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hi! hope your week has been going well! my parents were in town last week visiting us (well, mostly visiting E and S), but while they were here, i tried my hand at making my mom’s pierogi (also known as pyrohy, varenyky, or pedaheh) from scratch. i have been wanting to share the recipe ever since!...
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when katherine and luke, of the soon to be max and friends, reached out to us last fall about possibly taking some family photographs over the holidays, i got really excited. katherine and luke have such a special way of documenting life through their lenses. since they both had cameras, they ended up capturing two perspectives of the same moment but with different details or unique emotions. ...
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we’ve been busy celebrating a few birthdays over here the past few weeks. josh’s was at the end of january, and eleanor’s was at the beginning of february! whenever i think of their birthdays these days, i’m hit with a flood of memories from the past few years of celebrating together. i don’t think josh minds, but their birthdays kind of mesh together as one in my head sometimes now…maybe because we went into the hospital on josh’s birthday 3 years ago to try and get this show on the road with my baby bump that was already 2 weeks past due. ...
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magnolia bakery invited eleanor and me to a little frosting lesson at their bakery yesterday with bobbi lloyd, their chief baking officer! E invited two of her little friends (and i invited their mamas) to join us and spend the morning frosting up a valentine’s day storm of cupcakes and cookies! i’ve never been that great at frosting stuff (do you remember E’s leaning birthday cake last year?...
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