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Pour-Over Coffee and Kids

On Easter morning this year, I woke up and did a double-take of the light peaking under my bedroom door. It was 6:30am. 6:30!!! I didn’t know my body was capable of sleeping that late anymore. I guess when I’m not woken up by toddler cries, anything is possible. I messed with my hair in…

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13 Thoughts I Have After the Release of Taylor Swift’s Midnights Album
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13 Thoughts I Have After the Release of Taylor Swift’s Midnights Album

I’m proud to admit I’m a Swiftie. Taylor’s first album was released when I was a senior in high school, and her songs have been like a soundtrack for my coming-of-age and now adult years. Many of her songs have inspired my own writing, and I’m in awe of her creative mind. So when she…

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10 Not-so-Scary Books for Halloween
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10 Not-so-Scary Books for Halloween

Halloween is a unique holiday with exciting features. You get the creepy, scary and goofy nature of costumes and horror movies, while also enjoying all the comfy-cozy quirks of the fall season. Sweaters, pumpkin spice and everything nice is my kind of Halloween. via GIPHY But I also like to get in the spirit with…

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Flagstaff 10k Trail Race Recap
Fitness | Motherhood

Flagstaff 10k Trail Race Recap

Last week, Kyle and I did something sort of old to us but also totally new: we ran a 10k trail race in Flagstaff, AZ, about two hours north of our home, around 30 degrees cooler and 10 times more scenic, hilly, and fall-ish. Making a weekend getaway date out of a race was “old”…

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A Full Day’s Work Before 6am
Motherhood

A Full Day’s Work Before 6am

Parents, grandparents, anyone with little ones in their lives – have you heard of the Wonder Weeks? It’s an app, book and parenting philosophy that refers to babies from birth to about 18 months, saying that little ones go through 10 mental leaps in their first two years of life. If you have the app,…

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Finding Confidence to Write a Book About Confidence
Writing

Finding Confidence to Write a Book About Confidence

I’ve been writing a book for 4 years. Here’s what that looks like: Year 1 – 2018-2019: Everything is new and exciting! I’m in the ideation phase and writing new chapters every week. I go to sleep at night excited to wake up and work on my book. Writing is the best! Year 2 –…

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Some Thoughts on Careers, and My Next Move
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Some Thoughts on Careers, and My Next Move

I met a 23-year-old college graduate this week who is anxious about how to get started in her career. My 19-year-old sister-in-law feels similar anxiety in what field to go into, what job to go for now. I want to be able to help these girls, but at 32, I feel the same anxiety about…

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Happy Birthday, Leo!
Motherhood

Happy Birthday, Leo!

What. a. year! A year ago, Leo John made me a mother. We brought home this sweet, tiny little baby with dark hair and midnight blue eyes and a small peanut head. Kyle and I didn’t have a clue what we were in for, but we were so in love. Today Leo’s hair is lighter,…

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My Favorite Motherhood Books That Are Helping Me Through This First Year
Book Review | Motherhood

My Favorite Motherhood Books That Are Helping Me Through This First Year

If you’re a new mom like me and you love to learn everything by reading, you’ve probably felt some choice overload at the number of parenting books out there. I wanted to read all the expert books when little Leo entered our world and learn every element of parenting a newborn. But what I found…

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Plaid Shirt Days: Thoughts on Red (Taylor’s Version)
Creativity | Motherhood | Writing

Plaid Shirt Days: Thoughts on Red (Taylor’s Version)

Does anyone else have the lyrics from Taylor Swift’s song “All Too Well (10-minute version)” playing through their head on a constant loop? I hear it when I drink my morning coffee. I hear it while reviewing courses in Blackboard for work. I hear it when I go to sleep. I hear it when I…

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