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Celebrating Christmas 2024, Part 2
A few weeks ago, my family drove down from Minnesota to celebrate Christmas with us, and to meet Arlo! (I shared some about how we celebrated Christmas with Nicholas' immediate family in this previous post). My parents and my brother, Matt, arrived...
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Late summer visits from Texan friends
We've had some special visitors in the last month or so! We have a few friends, in particular, who we have kept up with from our days of living in Texas (2014-2018). Because it is such a great distance between Indiana and Texas, it always feels...
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A family visit and grieving together
A few weeks ago, my family drove down from Minnesota. We were overdue for a visit together, but they also traveled down with the aim of us attending a family friend's funeral in Ohio together.
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Celebrating Finn and a spring family visit
Well, hello! It has been a long time, phew. It feels good to be back to writing and sharing about our life, beginning with a visit from my family in mid-April!
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Christmas 2023, part 2
I wrote about the first round of our Christmas celebrations, and then, for the second round a couple weeks ago, my parents and brother, Matt, drove down to visit and celebrate a belated Christmas together.
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A fall visit with family
This past weekend, my parents and brother made the drive down from my original home state of Minnesota for a visit with us! The weather and the fall colors were beautiful throughout the entire visit, so we spent lots of time outdoors.
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A family visit in July
A few weekends ago, my parents and brother drove down from Minnesota to visit. It had been a few months since we had last seen them, when they visited back in April, and we all wanted to celebrate a belated birthday for Cooper!
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A spring visit with family
This past weekend, my parents and my brother drove down from Minnesota to visit us. We wanted to spend time together, and also celebrate my brother's birthday and a belated Finn's birthday.
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2022: A year in review
Welcome to my annual post of our life in the last year – a review of all the big and little events, travels, habits, heartbreaks, and joys. These posts require a lot of time and energy, in part due to sifting through all the posts I wrote in the...
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A summer weekend in Ohio & a visit with friends
A few weeks ago, we drove out to visit some of Nicholas' family in Ohio. It was our first "long" car ride with both boys, and the drive out was admittedly very long, especially with an infant who loathes the carseat. Nonetheless, it was very...
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