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Two years already!
June 2008, Henry at 23 months Dear Sweet Baby Henry, Is this the last time I get to call you that, now that you are a big two-year-old-boy? Your nurses tagged you with that title as soon as we named you, but I’m not sure if the laughing, mischievous toddler that you are today can…
Read MoreFood Friday: Best Pasta Salad Ever
Sob. It’s a rainy (of course) Friday. I have two sleeping boys upstairs—exhausted from the dearest nursery school closing ceremony you can POSSIBLY imagine, complete with songs sung so sweetly it made your teeth ache, individual odes to each child and butterflies emerging from their cocoons. Downstairs we have a teary mommy, who just rubbed…
Read MoreTwo boys and a bag of gummy worms
My Best Shot Monday this week also doubles as a sneak preview for the mom and dad of this handsome twosome. But you get a two-for-one special today, because there is no way I can decide on just one of these boys. These two came ready for fun—the best kind of photo shoot! Add a…
Read MoreFeeling fun and funky
Having fun altering reality with these super funky (at least for me) vintagey, color burst and sepia Photoshop actions by lovely and amazing photographers Laura Pearce and Ree of Pioneer Woman. Thank you for sharing them! It takes an ice cream outing to get these two to stop moving. What’s your favorite funky foto technique?
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Love this one. It is a photo of mother and daughter from daughter’s two-year-old party a few weeks ago. This party, actually: Mom is a professional photographer, so the technical errors on this one might make her cringe, but maybe the tenderness factor might override some of the mistakes. Daughter is a professional two-year-old and…
Read MoreFood Friday: Chicken and Corn Chowder
It’s about the fortieth rainy Friday in a row today, and while I greet rain with enthusiasm for the green growth it represents, I would greet it with slightly more enthusiasm if it fell on a day when I wasn’t home. With two boys. Inside. It isn’t just rainy, either, it’s rainy and chilly. Like…
Read MoreIf I could upload images, you’d see yummy cupcakes
While I have no time to be doing this, I CAN’T leave that last post up while I hop off to NYC for my Real Simple photo shoot. Or if I did, it would be CRYSTAL CLEAR as to why I needed to go have a makeover. So here’s a little something to cleanse your…
Read MoreFood Friday: Making Reservations
Sorry, it’s been that kind of week and that kind of day and we’re going out for dinner when the kids are in bed. You should, too! But my friend Shannon just gave me this tip, so I pass it on to you in the name of Food Fridays. Go to restaurant.com for and search…
Read MoreFood Friday: Simple Asparagus Pasta
The daffodils have burst into bloom everywhere, the grass is greening up, purple myrtle blooms are popping open, buds are swelling—it’s spring! At least in my little corner of the world (my inlaws, looking at snow today, would probably disagree!). According to one of my favorite local farmers, it is just a couple of weeks…
Read MoreFood Friday: The Antidote for Sleep Deprivation
For those of you following along at home, you might recall that I have 3.5-year-old and a 1.5-year-old here. If you do the math and include the pregnancies, the teething, the ear infections, the things that go bump in the night and the internal springs that jolt them out of bed at unspeakably early hours…
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