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Continue reading →: messages for babyWe’re just over a week until Holden’s first birthday and I’m in full-on nostalgia mode. Lately I’ve been thinking about where I was this time last year, preparing for our new arrival. One of the things I’m so glad we did to prepare was to have our friends and family…
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Continue reading →: full disclosure: holden’s nurserySo I’ve been feeling the need to confess something and, in the spirit of this blog and its attempt to make everyone feel better about not being the Pinterest wizards we all pretend to be, I’m gonna do it. Okay. In our old house, Holden’s nursery was pretty much the…
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Continue reading →: pinterest WIN: the rainbow cupcake!you read that right. take two on the rainbow cupcakes was a success. (in case you’re just catching up, I want to do a rainbow/colorful theme for Holden’s first birthday party, which is two weeks away. My first attempt at making Spearmint Baby’s gorgeous rainbow cupcakes was a raging Pinterest…
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Continue reading →: let’s try this againI’m attempting the rainbow cupcakes again tonight. Wish me luck!
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Continue reading →: what’s in the baby book?Holden’s first birthday is two weeks away (tomorrow!), so it’s been my goal to get her baby book into shape. At this point, it’s become more of a baby box, with her baby book inside it. I ordered a Carter’s Keepsake Chest from Amazon. It has a top compartment that…
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Continue reading →: best punishment ever?So, this mom is my hero. According to a post on buzzfeed, this mom served up a pretty creative and appropriate punishment when she learned her daughter was bullying kids at school because of the way they dressed: she forced her daughter to walk in someone else’s ugly shoes and…
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Continue reading →: gone votin’Did you vote today? Holden joined me at the polling place – don’t worry; no voter fraud here!
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Continue reading →: wrapping up a yearWe’re in the 3-week countdown to Holden’s first birthday, and I’ve come to realize that I’m not just planning a party, I’m essentially wrapping up this entire first year and saying goodbye to my first year of motherhood. She’s officially been a “toddler” for more than two months; she’ll never…
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Continue reading →: i’d like to point this outHolden has been pointing all over the place lately and I’m loving it. Apparently, research says that pointing is what makes us uniquely human, so that’s at least good to know. But I’m most psyched about our newly found way to communicate with each other. Want your water bottle? Point…
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Continue reading →: my house lacks style, pt. 2If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve decided that, after three months in our not-new-enough-to-call-it-new-anymore house, it’s time to start decorating. But because I’m me, I have to do it a little bit at at time. The dining room is pretty well taken care of at this point. Recently…
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