our baby girls are THREE!

May 30th 2021
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I hope you are ready for the biggest photo dump ever, because I had to include basically all the photos from Madalena and Beatrice’s third birthday! Don’t ask a mother to narrow them down, now! It’s an impossible task.  We celebrated the big day with two pink cakes, a unicorn piñata and new bikes! Also, Nana came to visit which made the weekend extra special (since we also get to celebrate our handsome Mister Samson’s 9th birthday this weekend, too!...

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look what just arrived!

March 15th 2021
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A few days ago, a big box showed up in the mail from my publisher. Inside the box, was my book.  I’d been anticipating the arrival of this box for several weeks now (in a way you could say I’d been anticipating this box for several years and that’d be true, too)–  dreaming of what it might feel like to finally hold the finished copy of my first book in my hands and flip through the pages....

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happy thanksgiving!

November 26th 2014
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i’d been putting off washing all of the baby’s clothes, partly because i tend to do everything last minute, but also because it just felt like the biggest task in all the land (i know it’s not, but when you’re 38 weeks pregnant, everything feels this way).  we don’t have a washer and dryer and a lot of it needed to be hand washed and air dried, so that’s maybe why it felt even bigger a task than normal....

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today: what i’m thankful for.

November 10th 2010

thankful there is still a baby in my tummy. sometimes it’s still so hard for me to grasp that this really is happening and i really am having this little baby! and soon! thankful for that extra hour of sleep on sunday (thank you daylight savings.) thankful for a snoozed alarm clock so we can stay in bed a little longer while waiting to feel baby kick or somersault or chassé across my belly.... Read more

mister kingsley.

June 9th 2010
it always makes our day when someone who follows the blog comes up to us and says hello. we’ve met a lot of wonderful people this way. but it makes us even happier when they automatically greet kingsley by name! from hello to goodbye, it’s all about mister kingsley. and you know he loves it, too!... Read more