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Things I’m loving while pregnant that I don’t normally love
As this pregnancy continues I've noticed there are a few things I am really enjoying right now that non-pregnant me would never enjoy. Isn't that funny how our bodies' likes, dislikes, and habits can change so much during this time?
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Family Vacation Packing Tips
One of the hardest parts of taking your family on vacation happens before you leave home. Trying to remember everything to pack and making sure it fits can be such a challenge! What if we need this? Or what is someone is sick? Or what if we don’t have a washing machine? Over the last few years I have started keeping a very specific and detailed packing list for our vacations to make packing easier. Every year I refer to the list and modify as needed because as kids grow or we have more kids a few items may change but the basic structure of the list always stays the…
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Reacclimating, Picking Paint Colors and Glucose Test
Oh friends reacclimation to normal life after vacation is so tricky. I feel like I see it more in my kids than anywhere else. They are exhausted. Maggie has been taking two naps a day, and the older kids have had some serious emotions thanks to over tiredness. I usually like to build in a buffer day between vacation and regular life to help transition but this time we didn’t. Yesterday we spent most of the morning cleaning, unpacking, decluttering, and making a donation pile. It was so productive but also so exhausting! It’s getting hard to manage the kids, being pregnant, and trying to be productive. I try to…
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8 Recent Reads I’ve Loved
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Hi there! I know many people pass the time with Netflix or TV but I am a total book lover. I have been such a bookworm my whole life that when I was a kid my parents would take my current book away as punishment. I fill any free time I can snuggled up on the couch with a good book, so grab a mug and a comfy couch spot, here are 8 books I’ve read recently and loved. The Rose Code By Kate Quinn Anything Kate Quinn has written I have read and loved. Sometimes I think I should have lived during WWI/WWII because…
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Late Nights and Our Next Home Project
Hey friends! I hope you are finding relief from the summer heat and also enjoying the longer days. I have a bittersweet relationship with the extended daylight because our kids have so much trouble going to bed early, and then they sleep in super late the next morning. As a morning person and not someone that can stay up late this is super hard for me when my kids stay up later than I do! We already have all the bits and bobs to help them: black out shades, quiet time before bed, sound machines, yada yada yada. They are just night owls and I’m not! If they could tell…
