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Five Great Chapter Book Series for Preschool-Kindergarten Kiddos
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Continue reading →: Five Great Chapter Book Series for Preschool-Kindergarten KiddosHi friends! Happy holiday season! Hope everyone in the US had a great Thanksgiving. We stayed home, watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, took naps, and ate homemade Thai food and pumpkin pie. Haha! It was a really nice, low-key holiday, and sometimes that’s the best kind. And we all…
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Pria Four Month Update
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Continue reading →: Pria Four Month UpdateWith each of my kids, there has been something so special about that four-month mark. I think they really turn a corner at this age and just become such interesting, unique little people with personalities and opinions. They can communicate a little bit, they are so interactive and playful, and…
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Life with Three and Other Things
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Continue reading →: Life with Three and Other ThingsI remember talking to Ben a couple years ago about which phrases we said the most often throughout the day. My most-used phrase, hands down, was “Be careful by the stairs!!” (The layout of our house means that the boys are constantly running back and forth past the top of…
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Pria, Three Months In
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Continue reading →: Pria, Three Months InI was thinking the other day about how one year ago, I was lying in bed at night, running through the massive to-do list in my head for our trip to Hawaii. Worrying about getting our negative covid tests back in time, questioning whether I had accounted for everything the…
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Mom Brain + Newborn-ish
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Continue reading →: Mom Brain + Newborn-ishI used to be kind of good at language. Like, I got As in school and stuff. I could hold an intelligent conversation in English and in French. I wrote software documentation for a living. Now? Three kids in and consistently sleep deprived? Not so much. Here’s a list of…
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Bed Rest Reads
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Continue reading →: Bed Rest ReadsA couple nights ago, I was nursing Pria while listening to an episode of The Chalene Show during which the host briefly mentioned her horrific recent experience with plastic surgery. (For the record, this is very out of character with what Chalene normally shares; her podcast is usually fantastic and…
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Four Weeks of You
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Continue reading →: Four Weeks of YouTime. While you were still inside me, and I was so scared all the time, every day — every hour — seemed to take forever. It went on and on and on. It was grueling, unbearable, for months. And now, with you here? Time is a jet engine, going faster…
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Insanity and Other Stuff
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Continue reading →: Insanity and Other StuffPostpartum hormones are INSANE, pals, and here’s why: Logically, I KNOW that I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever want to be pregnant again. Never. Never ever. And not just because this pregnancy caused me enough trauma to last a lifetime; even the easiest pregnancy is HARD. It’s hard physically,…
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She’s Here!
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Continue reading →: She’s Here!Our little miracle baby is finally here. Pria Kamea Sikora Pria (rhymes with Mia) means “beloved,” and Kamea (kah-MAY-uh) means “the one and only” (in Hawaiian since this little miss is our surprise Hawaiian souvenir!). She was born last week in a fast and furious birth that was the antithesis…
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We Have a Nursery!
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Continue reading →: We Have a Nursery!It’s official! Sawyer has moved into the bunk bed in Luca’s room (I was pretty nervous about this transition, but it’s been seamless, and I’m so grateful for that), and we finally have a room that’s allllmost ready for our little lady! I really wasn’t even sure that I would…
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