Author Archives: Jenn

Mental Health Day

It was supposed to be a day spent teaching yoga to some good friends who so kindly volunteered to be my guinea pigs, but it turned in to a relaxing mental health day. Life is busy these days with R … Continue reading

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Moving Up To Toddler Room

Next week M will start transiting up from the pre-toddler room to the toddler room. Biggest differences are at meal and nap times. No more crib and only one nap a day. She’s been sleeping only once a day for … Continue reading

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Car Seat Struggles

Somedays it’s like pulling teeth to get her to sit down in the car seat after daycare. You’d think she didn’t want to go home!

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Longing for the Farmers’ Market

For the last six months or so, I have had a lot of stress around grocery shopping, meal planning, etc.  I went from shopping at Aldi on a $60 a week food budget (not counting monthly meat purchases from Sam’s … Continue reading

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Green Smoothies

Feeling good and keeping sickness at bay by drinking spinach smoothies for the last week.

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M’s First Zoo Visit

While we were in Florida, we visited my childhood zoo.  It sure has changed!  I didn’t even recognize the place.  I was really looking forward to the petting zoo, which of course has closed because some kids somewhere got sick … Continue reading

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Annual Beach Trip

Seems like we only get Miss M to the beach once a year for an hour or so.  She’ll have such a different childhood than her Florida-born-and-raised parents.  I pictured her running around in the sand and chasing the waves … Continue reading

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Finally a nice kitty!

Miss M finally found a kitty that would take all her lovin’.  Miss Sammi was such a champ, letting M pet her, kiss her, hug her and just generally abuse her.  Luckily, M doesn’t try to pick kitties up just … Continue reading

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Cousins

When I was a kid, I was lucky enough to live close enough to some of my cousins that we were able to see them for dinner any weekend night we’d like.  Another group of cousins lived a mere half … Continue reading

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Christmas 2011 Recap

We had a nice long vacation to FL to see all of our family for Christmas, but it sure felt like a whirlwind trip!  We caught up with just about everyone and spent lots of quality family time with all … Continue reading

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