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thank you, thank you (and Milo’s blessing)

April 12, 2013

I can’t thank you all enough for the wonderful outpouring of love and support given to us yesterday after talking about autism. Some of it was from family, some from new friends, some from old friends, some from internet friends, and some from complete strangers. Every single one of your kind and encouraging comments meant [...]

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milo’s story

March 15, 2013

In honor of Milo’s 2-month birthday last Sunday, this week’s 5 Fact Friday will be replaced by Milo’s birth story. Here’s the short and sweet version: I was humongous. I was induced. I had back labor. I had an epidural. I had a baby. Want the long version? Read on…

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to my sophie girl.

January 9, 2013

Dear Sophie, Today we had what could very well be our last mama-Sophie day together. We’re adding a brother to our house oh so very soon. I’d imagined it being a day filled with playing outside (your favorite) and eating ice cream (ditto) and splashing in a bath and doing all your favorite things. Alas, [...]

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our (mostly) girl’s california trip

August 29, 2012

So… remember how I went to California a few weeks ago? Oh, right. You might not remember since I haven’t blogged about it yet. Sigh. I’m sort of that pregnant person. Who gets behind. It happens. Moving on. It was such a wonderful trip! I can never get enough of being with everyone. Sophie traveled [...]

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big news…

August 24, 2012

Big news, friends! We had our gender ultrasound yesterday, and the results are in…

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our trip to colorado: all the rest

July 20, 2012

This is the last Friday without our typical Five Fact Friday for a while (it’s been too long! I miss it. Do you?) I did want to share a few more photos from the rest of our Colorado trip. There were SO many photos, this is just a sampling, but they represent some of the [...]

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our colorado trip: zoo and birthdays

July 16, 2012

For the benefit of our friends, family, and anyone else interested, I’m recapping our 8-day trip to Colorado. For the first post, see here. We celebrated 3 June birthdays in our family while we were in Colorado and made a fun day out of it. It was our niece Megan’s actual birthday and we celebrated [...]

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our colorado trip: water baby

July 13, 2012

For the 4th of July and Michael’s dad’s 60th birthday, we flew out to visit his whole family in Colorado for just over a week. It was the first time we’d all been together like this in a few years, and it was so fun! We really enjoyed getting together and Sophie got a chance [...]

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