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Outdoor Resources
One of the beautiful parts about my relationship with my husband is that we really don’t have all that much in common. The important things are alike of course, our hearts, beliefs and priorities are...
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Building Our Ship
Shortly after Justin and I met, our lives took the fast track into our forever together. He helped me move out of my college apartment in San Francisco and into his parents’ home with him. I worked and...
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Setting the Conditions
Justin and I met at an alcohol-laden Christmas Party. I showed up with a handful of friends after celebrating the holidays barhopping at the infamous pubs in our hometown. It was already sort of late...
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Sacred Slumber
The very first piece of (new) “furniture” that we received as a couple was a mattress, a moving gift bestowed upon us by my mother. We were thrilled to upgrade to a queen size from a full, despite...
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Freedom Ride
The summer months bring a whole new current into our lives and system as a family. Justin keeps his normal schedule and mine fluctuates, ebbing and flowing amongst the demands of Jack, Zoe and Beau’s...
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Capturing the Waning Days of Summer
Generally when the summer months start to wind down and shift gears from long, relaxing hours into the more geared up and structured mentality for back-to-school, this is the time we all begin to get a...
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Their Safe Place
My oldest two children, Jack and Zoe, are 19 months apart in age. Jack was still very much a baby himself when Zoe was born and because of that they have always been incredibly close to one another. We...
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Creating Our Home
We have been in our new (to us) home for almost two full weeks, as hard to believe as that is. There are piles of things in every corner, empty spaces waiting to be filled with new furniture and walls...
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A Sweet Introduction
Relocating our family into a new town just weeks before school started made me slightly nervous. Ideally, we would have had plenty of time to unpack and settle into our new home and neighborhood before...
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Walking For Wishes
Finding ways to give back and involve my children in the process has been an interesting challenge for us. Over the past several years, we’ve chosen opportunities as certain events have come about to...
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Feathered Nest
This weekend we celebrated Zoe’s seventh birthday. As these big, larger than life events go, we were busy from dawn on Saturday until dusk on Sunday. I planned and shopped for weeks it seems leading up...
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The Spirit of Autumn
It’s one of my favorite times of year, when the cold fall air begins to whisper in our sun-loving, California ears, that fall has come and with it the promise of beautiful traditions, cozy sweaters and...
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Weekend Getaway (Plus a Plum Organics Giveaway)
We are planning on heading to the beach for a few days this weekend. We don’t get to go all that often, but when the opportunity presents itself we graciously accept and begin the process of planning,...
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Playful Spaces
I used to really love big changes before I had kids. Starting new jobs, changing my hair, living in various different cities, going on last minute trips. It was all very exciting and it felt like true...
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Opening the Conversation
I was talking to some friends the other night about the cross-country flights I used to take when the kids were babies, about how they’d get so carsick on the way to the airport and then we’d be left...
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Welcome Home
Bringing Theo home for the first time was a lot like bring Beau home from the hospital. I went into both situations pretty naive, expecting to be able to cruise into each new experience fully armed...
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Living Vibrantly
Not so many years ago, we relied on our legs and our strong bodies for getting around. We’d ride scooters, bikes and mostly walked on the soles of our trusty feet to get us from home to preschool to...
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In Harmony and Chaos
We’re creeping (ok running) right into the season of giving. First we’ll sit around the dinner table and give thanks for the many, many wonderful things that our family has been so fortunate with, and...
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Mindful Celebrations
One of the most challenging parts of uprooting our family and moving to Manhattan was the learning curve getting used to not having our own transportation to rely on. We were so used to driving our own...
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A Life and Home Filled With Warmth
Just as our relationship and marriage has changed and evolved over the past ten years, Justin and I have gone through the motions of settling down, packing and unpacking only to pack again and move...
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