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winter
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basement sleepover
I relocated our old mattress down to the basement after I was tired of it in our entryway at the bottom of the stair slide. Braden thought it would be fun to have a sleepover down there with the girls. It couldn't just be any old sleepover... I
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throwback thursday (december 3, 2019)
Emma read 100 books!
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throwback thursday (march 19, 2019)
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home: day 1, 2 & 3
I quickly realized Monday that doing nothing all day wasn't going to work for 1 out of the 3 of us. Luckily I found Mo Willems (author of the Elephant and Piggie and the Pigeon books) is doing a video every day for the next 2 weeks. Monday
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breakfast pizza
Saturday morning Emma put her cooking class skills in action. She pretty much made this all by herself. She learned this recipe from the rainbow themed class she did with Olivia. Another favorite from the class is rainbow waffles. We've been making those a lot lately.
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it's only been a week!?!
The past week feels like it's dragged on for a year. I travelled solo to Florida for the weekend. Olivia had a couple healthy days, then ended up with a 4 day fever. We celebrated a birthday at our house. But maybe the most exciting thing... Emma has
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poor girl
Yesterday did not go as planned.... I started my day doing laundry at 4:30 AM. My clothes, Olivia's clothes, sheets, towels, unidentifiable food chunks (that I think were pineapple 🤷🏼♀️). Olivia didn't get much sleep all night. She didn't eat a single bite of
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throwback thursday (february 27, 2019)
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kindness
Olivia's preschool did a little kindness program at church this morning. The kids sang 2 kindness songs they learned at school (Olivia is the 3rd one on the back row. You can barely see her. 😂), then they went to the classroom for Sunday school. Olivia said they listened
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dazzle dance
The girls always ask why there is a daddy daughter dance and not a mommy daughter dance. It turns out our gym does a family dance, and Braden happened to be out of town this weekend. So.... that made it a mommy daughter dance. The gym has a salon, so
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exploring the cosmos
A couple weeks ago I signed up for a family class to learn about stars through a telescope. Emma has always been interested in telescopes and stars, so I thought she'd think it was really cool. We got to look at Venus and a bunch of different stars