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Cranberry & Jalapeno Salsa, For The Holiday’s or The Pregnant
Last year around the holidays, I tried this salsa at a party. I must have stayed close to the plate the entire night. A year later I am still thinking about it! So, I contacted Deidre, the...
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Peanut Butter Cookies + Holiday Traditions
I lay awake at night, critiquing and organizing my favorite holiday treats. I want to bake all the right ones, and create Christmas traditions that run deep. I want Octave to say she has been eating...
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Peppermint Hot Chocolate
My heart often hurts for the most beautiful things in life. Pain in the midst of perfection, it almost seems impossible and yet I feel it everyday in the mundane moments that make up my life....
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A New Year, A New Life
The coming of the new year is without a doubt my favorite time of year. Being a keeper of memories and an avid dreamer the new year holds me sweetly in its arms and whispers sounds of hope and...
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Little Bowl of Big Love
Octave slips into a slumber and I am left with myself. This humble table that seats four, is my place and this afternoon is my time. This feels good. I don’t battle the should(s) but rather the...
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Recently Enjoyed Things
Enjoying Dutch Babies with lemon and powdered sugar. Drinking cups and cups of red raspberry leaf tea and meditating on a beautiful, short and pain-free birth(it’s worth a shot!) Craving...
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A Birthday Cake For A Birthday Girl!
I have never been one to love cake. I grew up asking for ice cream on my Birthday and even refused to have cake on my wedding day. So, when I found myself pregnant with Octave I wondered why I...
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Mediterranean Pasta
10 days and counting. 10 DAYS!!! After 6 moves and 3 states in 4 years I am dreaming of this being our last, at least for a while. I am exhausted just thinking about all those moves and all...
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Homemade Croissants/Dinosaurs in that good Wyoming Sunshine/Maple & Balsamic roasted carrots/Warm loaves of bread/A break from packing & our favorite park/Family Bike Rides/
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A Week In Photos: Heading West
Sweet little toes and the open road/Heading west/Giddy about moss/Mt. Hood/Public transit that works!/Breakfast at Harlow/Lemon Quinoa Pancakes + Cashew Cream/Good morning Citrus/
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Wild and Free
I walk promptly to catch a bus that makes shapes and predictable patterns inside the veins of my favorite city. My unfamiliar heavy gait finds amusement in the wet pavement. I’ve known this sound...
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Carrot, Apple, Grapefruit, Beet Juice
Love and fear play a ruthless game of hide and seek under my skin. Some hours the less desirable of the two makes itself into the very marrow of my being. Some days, love simply does not win and I...
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Be Here Now
Be here now, I tell myself. My aching arms and back are only temporary. This belly, and these hormone induced bi-polar like meltdowns are only temporary. No place to call our own is only temporary....
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361 days of bliss
We are about to celebrate one whole year of living car free. During the last year there were only four days, or at least that I can remember, when I cursed the road, thought we were crazy, or wanted...
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Browned Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies, With Sea Salt
I made these cookies in the midst of an epic meltdown with Octave. Sugar and salt ended up everywhere but the bowl, she burned her hand on the hot stove, and an entire jar of vanilla extract was just...
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The Last Days
This week my little lady has showered me with enough genuine “I love you Mama’s,” to make my heart nearly explode. She’s been the fuel I need to keep on pedaling with my 37 1/2 week belly. She’s the...
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A Day In Photographs ~ Mother’s Day
We started out strong, sporting our tattoos for the Cyclofemme ride, but we strayed from the group because the bladder of a 2 year old and a 38 week pregnant woman can be rather high maintenance. We...
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Recently Enjoyed Things
Homemade Croissants/Dinosaurs in that good Wyoming Sunshine/Maple & Balsamic roasted carrots/Warm loaves of bread/A break from packing & our favorite park/Family Bike Rides/
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