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hannah audrey

 

  • Every so often I read things that I can’t stop thinking about. Most recently it was Hanna Rosin’s article, The Overprotected Kid. It is a long read, but well worth the time.  I’d like to keep it as a reference point as I navigate the world as a parent.
  • My friend, Becca, whom I taught with at my former school has a few amazing blogs and she asked me to join her literacy blog, Love, Laughter, and Literacy. I’m feeling pretty excited about it and working with Becca, who is one of the most passionate people I’ve ever met, is a real honor.
  • I’m also contributing each week over at the I Carry Your Heart Blog and we’re brewing something sweet when it comes to mothers in front of the camera. Every Thursday, at noon, our new pictures post and every week I have the most difficult time picking a favorite.

 

 

 

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Forever Friends

 

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We had a small birthday celebration for maggie over the weekend where my cousins, Cora and Chaya, put on a Drama Camp themed party. It was a wild, crazy and super hilarious time, a birthday that I hope Maggie never forgets. I’ll get around to posting the pictures sooner than later, but I wanted to throw up here a quick snap of Maggie with two of her best friends, Thomas and Caroline. Time flies, and babies keep on growing and changing.

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Port Townsend CCBC

It isn’t a secret that we love a good weekend vacation within a two hour drive of our home. I think all the mini trips we do somehow make up for the fact that we haven’t really done many/any ‘big’ trips in what feels like a long, long time. Packing up for a trip and setting out on the road fills me with such a sense of adventure and excitement and I’m lucky that both Barry and I share this interest. My mom and dad are very similar in this mindset and at Christmas we’d given them a gift certificate to stay at some small beach cabins that we’d stayed and loved.

April rolled around and my dad’s 60th birthday fell two days before Maggie’s 5th, and we started to talk about piggybacking onto their beach cabin stay and renting the hundred-year farmhouse on the same property. All of us fit into this house and enjoyed the stay for two nights. The weather was beautiful, the beach close, and the food plenty. The property that we stayed on was expansive and we were encouraged by the owners to roam around, which we did and the swing-set saw us more often than not.

What follows are the pictures from our weekend together and I love each of then. But I noticed that I’m not in a single one. Damn. I need to get better at passing the camera and letting go of the self-serving guilt that comes with wanting to get an appropriate picture (meaning we’re in focus).

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