What do I want them to remember when they are my age? What do I hope they think back on and smile and know they are loved? The stuff that matters is always the little things. I like to call them “the little big things”. What do I remember from my own childhood? What memories [...]
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I can do hard things. But I don’t think I can. Or rather, I try to convince myself that I can’t every time a challenge comes my way. When you are standing at the base of a mountain looking up, it’s more comfortable to walk away than take a breath and place the first foot [...]
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My husband and I often joke that our house is very well lived in. It is rarely tidy and on the random occasion that it is clutter free, it often only stays that way for about five minutes. We’ve tried tricky organizational systems and the kids do help to clean up when we ask, but [...]
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May 4th marked a big milestone for our new and growing company. We celebrated our first birthday with cake, floats, photobooth fun, and (albeit cliché) A LOT of laughs. It has been a challenging and exciting 12 months of learning and growing. We are so grateful to all of you who have allowed us to [...]
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It’s mind over matter. He knows this now, but no amount of coaxing would get him to accept the truth that he, too, could find balance and ride a bike. Then suddenly, on this stretch of happy home with family cheering on from the sidelines, he got a running start andwhoosh there he went! I [...]
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Inspired by favorite lessons from mom, our Creative Team designed 12 printable download pieces as a gift for you. They are perfect to frame or mount as an inexpensive, meaningful gift. They can also be creatively displayed around your home or office as an important reminder whenever you need a boost. Sometimes we all need [...]
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So often my focus is on documenting my children. Our lives. Our every day. Sometime though, in between the diaper changes and sibling rivalry I am suddenly taken back to another place – another time. It was a simple trip to the post office and I had just put my first ever roll of 120 [...]
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Guess what?! We’re almost 1. We launched Paper Coterie last May and can’t believe how quickly one year has passed. To celebrate, our May photo challenge is all about documenting the beauty of life well lived. Birthdays, holidays, and special occasions are amazing ways to recognize milestones. Don’t get us wrong. We LOVE a good [...]
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust Inspired by February’s Loving This Today theme, I no longer have a daily gratitude journal. Yup, that’s right. It is now called my “I Am Loving This Today” journal. When writing down [...]
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I cannot fully explain what I feel when I see my youngest 2 together. They are not twins, there are 22 months between them in age, but their bond so extremely close. I remember after having our son, my husband talked at length about having 1 more, we had a much older daughter and now [...]
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