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Family Life: Where We Are and How We Are Doing
I set some intentional goals around our family life this year. I said:
… Read More2020 is my year to lean into my life. At home, I want to feel relaxed and present with my family. I want to leave my stress at work. I want to spend more energy focused on the positive. I want to make sure that we are all getting our needs met. I want our family to feel like a participatory democracy. I want to meet my children where they are, to meet their needs, and to rest assured that everything will turn out fine. I want to enact daily habits that will leave us feeling healthy.
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Family Recap Video: Our Adventures in 2019
Every year, Matt produces a Family Recap Video. (Thank you, Matt!)
Here is a link to all of our previous family recap videos if you are interested!
I’m still smiling over here about our summer vacation to upstate New York. What a gorgeous part of the country during a gorgeous time of the year. (Hello, ticks!).
I sincerely hope our children remember their childhoods at this kind of altitude. (Although it’s not likely!) It’s a good exercise for me to see our life through this lens. It’s not a lens of denying the hard stuff that happens on a daily basis. It’s a lens of rising above the … Read More
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So This is 42
I celebrated my 42nd birthday this weekend! I debated various ideas about how to celebrate and decided to do a night away with Matt at a hotel. (This photo is not from the hotel; it’s from our recent RV trip to Big Bend.)
At first the plan was that he was going to try and barter his photography and videography services for a free hotel room. When that didn’t work out, I found a day-of hotel website and unlocked a cheap deal at a local resort.
We had our last recruitment event of the season for my school, so we couldn’t actually leave for the hotel until 5:00 or … Read More