Essence of Now: June 14, 2003

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Thanks to Mother Nature, this week was a bit harder to continue our summer fun. We still tried though. Hard. We had some fun family time while out to lunch… Then when the rain rolled in, we certainly wished it away. Though it did make for some fun puddle jumping. (Our laundry, however, disagrees.) Once [...]

Essence of Now: June 7, 2013

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Holy hot dogs, y’all! This week has been non.stop.fun! We’ve been swimming… Strolling… Exploring… And playing… Bring it on, summer! . .

Essence of Now: May 31

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Well, we did it. We packed up our house, filled the truck with all our things, and headed out. We are finally settled in our new home, unpacked, and enjoying life here. Home. Wrapped in the chaos and stress were moments of panic. Did we do the right thing? Was this the right move? What [...]

Essence of Now: May 24

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This week has kicked my butt. We had the littlest one turn 11 months (WHO LET THIS HAPPEN?!?) and another certain little someone turn 3. THREE. Oh, my heart. In the midst of all that, we’re in the middle of moving. I have been drowning in boxes and bags and organizing and decluttering and cleaning. [...]

Essence of Now: May 17

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This is me, waving the white flag for this week. I have run out of fumes to run off of. It has been a marathon packing week as we get ready to move into our new home. And as I organized, purged, cleaned, and packed, I found some gadgets in some pretty odd locations… Amidst [...]

Essence of Now: May 10

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This week has been a roller coaster. Our lives were kind of just thrown around and things over the next couple of weeks are sure to be nothing short of crazy. To get away from the mayhem, we took several breaks to the park. Again. And yes, he IS eating grass. Judging by the look [...]

Essence of Now: May 3

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The weather this week has been gorgeous! We have finally hit our stride with the warm sunny days. And what better way to spend them than at the park? We played on the swings, trying to reach as high as the sky. Even the littlest monster got in on the swing action. We ran and [...]

Essence of Now: April 26

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Is it Friday? Finally? For real? I have thought that it was Friday since Tuesday. I hate those weeks. In related news, I have said, more times that I’d like to admit, that I will need to start taking Speed in order to keep up with my kids. We’ve spent time tracing, practicing our letters, [...]

Essence of Now: Milestones and More

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After this past week, I kind of feel like I’m on an episode of Punk’d. Like the world around me laughing at this big joke that they’re pulling over on me. Why, you ask? Well, it started with this rumor of seeing the Northern Lights on Saturday. So I set up my camera and was [...]

Essence of Now: In Bloom

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If my children could live outside I am convinced that they would. They have proven this week that they hate being indoors. Every waking moment of the last 7 days has been spent outside. And really, with sunshine, fresh air, and temperatures creeping towards 90 degrees, who would blame us? Plus, there are beautiful new [...]