Last week was my birthday and, as always, it was a most special day.  The kids all had school, so I slept in as late as I could and awoke to beautiful decorations, a delish breakfast with birthday candles, and an iPhone 5.  Yes, my…

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This Tuesday, May 28th, the new Eisley album Currents will be released.  Last night they gave a preview of the album on Pandora, and I’ve definitely been listening.  I’ve mentioned Eisley several times before, and I’m pretty excited about new music from them.  Currents is…

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  Gemma is graduating Kindergarten today and turning 6 years old tomorrow!  It feels like the year just began, and it’s hard to believe that I will never have a Kindergartener (or a 5-year-old) again.  I honestly have mixed feelings about things like this –…

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It’s spring, the lilacs in my backyard are blooming, and tomorrow is my 31st birthday!  As I’ve mentioned before, I really (really really really) love my birthday, and I’m excited to see what this next year will bring.  And, guess what?  I had to go…

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Happy Mother’s Day everyone!  My day was full and sweet yesterday, and loaded with surprises from morning to night.  I woke up to yummy doughnuts and coffee in bed (and yes, I get SO excited for surprise doughnuts!), then we got ready for church, and…

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Life is busy right now.  Gavin and Guini have 13 days left of school, and Gemma has 11 days left.  The next two weeks are full of concerts, plays, musicals, birthday parties and graduations.  I’m really looking forward to the slower pace of summer, but…

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These photos were taken May 2009 (with my Canon Powershot – remember those?).  Gavin was almost 6, Guini was 3.5, and Gemma had just turned 2. I don’t usually share “old” photos, but these are just too darling to keep to myself.  I love these…

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I changed my hair this weekend!  There’s something about Spring that always makes me want to try new things with my hair. It was a longggg 4-step process of stripping out the red, dying the top, bleaching the bottom, and dying the bottom.  It took…

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This week I can’t get enough of the French turntable group, C2C.  They released their first full-length album, Tetra about 7 months ago, and although it isn’t the style of music I usually spend time listening to, I just can’t not listen.  LOVE.  Like, a…

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I’m participating in Kids Clothes Week for the first time, and I’m SO excited!  KCW is where you commit to sewing kids clothing for at least 1 hour a day for an entire week.  You can make whatever you want, and it can be really simple,…

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