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    Christmas Books!

    October 20, 2014 / 2 Comments
    After making my list of books to read in the weeks leading up to Halloween, I decided to do the same thing for Christmas! Henry and I have been having a lot of fun reading our Halloween books together. 

    • The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
    • Christmas Day in the Morning
    • Christmas Farm
    • Christmas Tapestry
    • The Trees of the Dancing Goats
    • An Orange for Frankie
    • The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
    • Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia!
    • The Christmas Truck
    • Christmas Around the World
    • Christmas in Noisy Village
    • The Nutcracker
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    Join Us!

    October 18, 2014 / No Comments
    We are getting ready to start the next round of Purposeful Conception: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy on Monday! 
    Although I am on the other side of conception (I have a 15 month-old and a 3.5 year-old and my husband got a vasectomy), I still love talking about everything that surrounds conception, pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
    Just yesterday, I was talking with a pregnant friend/colleague who was explaining that she doesn’t feel like she’s “supposed” to feel in terms of the proverbial “maternal instinct.”
    I connected with another friend/colleague last week who got accidentally pregnant and didn’t know it until she had a miscarriage.
    Last weekend I
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    New Hobbies!

    October 14, 2014 / 1 Comment
    Image courtesy The Purl Bee
    So sorry I missed posting last week! It’s for a good reason: I have hobbies again! 
    I took a class at a local yarn shop to learn how to make this cowl. 
    And I’ve been reading. 
    And Matt and I have been playing speed Scrabble. We give ourselves one minute per turn. It’s actually been a really fun way get in a quick game. It also makes the process feel more engaging because we aren’t looking at our phones or doing something else during the other person’s turn. The only way it doesn’t completely stress me out is if I spend the first couple
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