Forget the Kardashians. Forget Birkenstocks and ombre hair and cold shoulder shirts. Forget Lebron and matcha and cold brew coffee. Yeah, all of those things might be having a moment...
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Have you ever met someone that speaks your language?No, I’m not talking English, French, or (to speak of my suffering initiative at learning a second language) Spanglish. I’m talking your heart language. Someone who gets stuff the way you do.Humor me for a minute.When my friend Lauren texts me a picture of the Kate Spade "Eat Cake For Breakfast" bag or says "OMG, me too!" for the millionth time in our conversation, it’s because she speaks my language. Or when my friend Kate posts this video of cats trotting on a treadmill to my Facebook wall for the millionth time… I’m sorry, but that mess gets me every time. Or when I tear up a bit during deep conversation with my mom because she's somehow managed to put words to feelings I'm experiencing and it's like I'm being realized for the first time...
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Are we ready to close out the summer? Is it really already time?Saying goodbye to summer feels a lot like saying goodbye to an old friend. Summer is that lively, carefree friend who shows up out of nowhere at your front door, sleeps on your couch and eats all your food, but gives you a load of funny stories and blurry photographs to save as memories. You shared some good moments and probably even got burned a time or two, but at the end of the day, there's always promise that they'll come back around again. For my family, this summer was filled with a ton of joyful, big life moments, but was also not without its share of challenging learning experiences. Here's a few things I learned: I learned that I could keep two humans alive, surviving on minimal hours of sleep. I learned that hormones are the wild, unbridled beasts of...
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Sometimes life is easy. Life gives us new friends, or a promotion at work, or time for an extra cup of coffee in the morning, and somehow, all feels right in the world. Sometimes life gives us a surprise sale at our favorite store, or a long-awaited answer to prayer, or extra caramel drizzled in the bottom of our Starbucks cup, and everything in us shouts, "YES! Thank you! Hooray!" But sometimes life gives us illness. Sometimes life gives us broken relationships, or a flat tire, or a feeling that you're two steps behind of where you should be. Sometimes it feels like life dumped a bunch of garbage on us and the answer to all of our dreams is "NO!" One those days, I need an extra helping of grace...
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At the end of April, my mom and I created a summer bucket list- a list of projects and goals we wanted to complete before fall came rolling through. Initially, I was determined to tick each and every item off that list. I'd finish sewing a few quilts, piece together George's baby photo album, and shed the remaining pregnancy pounds, among a number of other tasks that I was sure I'd finish with ease. I was wrong.Had my summer bucket list included eating an entire ice cream cake by myself, binge watching every episode of "Naked and Afraid" on my DVR, or successfully maintaining a sports bra/t-shirt hybrid of a farmer's tan, then this summer would have been crowned an all out success. Instead, my biggest success of the summer was keeping two humans alive (three, if you count my husband), and finally sleeping through the night myself without an extra...
Read MoreGuys. Please tell me I'm not the only one. Please, please tell me that I am not actually the sorriest person on the planet.The other day, I was vacuuming the nursery when I came upon a stubborn bundle of fuzz that refused to be sucked into the vacuum even after rolling over it five or six (read: fifteen) times. Instead of tossing the fuzzie in the trash, I picked up the little guy with my toes and then dropped it back on the ground to attempt to vacuum it up from a different angle.WHAT. IS. THAT. What degree of laziness does one have to have if they are willing to relocate grunge on floor to avoid a short walk to the garbage can to throw it out?[Throws hands in the air] I disgust myself. But this is the kind of stuff that is all over my life right now. With a handful of balls in the air and more than a...
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We just got back from a trip to Mexico, and I can't tell you how much I value my time spent there. Beyond margaritas and fish tacos and poolside amenities, there was rest and a lot of time- quality time with my husband.Somewhere between the nine to five and the raising two kids and the daily checklist of things to do, I have forgotten how to laugh. I've forgotten how to joke. I've forgotten how to play and how to flirt and how to make lazy conversation with my husband. In Mexico, there wasn't any business talk. No work stress. No employees calling in sick, or check lists, or babies with a belly ache or needing more milk or one more bedtime story. There was me and my husband and the words and the air that flowed in between us. That's all.To be clear, I understand that this is not...
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