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    Freshly-Squeezed Orange Juice

    There are plenty of ways in which I prioritize convenience over homemade quality. Whenever we make pizza, for example, we buy ready-made dough from the Whole Foods pizza section. Or if I need to make cookies and I’m short on time, I grab one of those tubes (or, if I’m really in a hurry, I get the kind that is already divided into squares).

    However, whenever we have friends over for breakfast, I try my very best to always make freshly-squeezed orange juice. Nothing compares to it! I simply buy a big bag of cheap oranges from the store and break out the $5 juicer I found on Craigslist.

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    Family Mission Statement

    Image courtesy Volume Twenty Five

    Matt and I finished writing our Family Mission Statement together. We need to figure out where to put it, so we revisit it quite frequently. If we don’t return to it often, it’s likely to become a “dead document.”

    Hmm…maybe I could use this DIY Ketubah kit from the lovely Tsilli to make a really pretty document that we frame?

    Or perhaps I could hire someone on Etsy to design a cool poster for us?

    Or maybe I could buy a print that Matt and I already agree is cool and somehow incorporate the text into it (like the print featured above)?

    I know! I

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    Third Trimester Pregnancy Advice

    Now that I’m officially one day overdue, I figure I’m qualified to share my advice for the third trimester of pregnancy…
    1. Don’s Assume Others’ Experiences Will Be Your Own: Honestly, I was dreading the third trimester because of everything I had ever read or heard about it. I thought my back would ache, I couldn’t sleep, I would be tired of being pregnant–yada, yada, yada. For me, none of that is true (probably because of everything I did in the first trimester and second trimester). I am still happy to carry my little boy around with me wherever I go. I cherish each passing day that I get to spend
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