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  • Minimalism & Decluttering
    • How I Learned to Stop Being a Slob and Started Cleaning up After Myself.
    • Decluttering, Cleaning, and Saving Money in the New Year.
    • Why I Want to be A Minimalist.
    • How to Determine When You have Enough Stuff.
    • On A Bit of Minimalist Travel // Why & How to Pack Lighter.
    • How Routines Have Made My Life Better.
    • A Tiny Christmas.
    • Why I Take a Social Media Break.
    • Or Do Without.
    • All posts about minimalism & decluttering
  • Saving Money
    • My Cleaning & Meal Planning Routines.
    • How and Why We Budget.
    • Doing a Buy Nothing Month.
    • Choosing between Convenience and Values.
    • Frugal Tips
    • 6 Ways We Save Money on Groceries.
    • My Favorite Little Ways to Save Money.
    • Being a One Car Family, Part 1.
    • Being a One Car Family, Part 2.
    • All posts about frugality & saving money
  • Green Living
    • Cloth Diapering
    • 9 Ways I'm Going to be Greener at Home.
    • How to Eat Less Meat
    • Green Living: What I Use to Clean.
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    • Still Shampoo Free.
    • All posts about green living & sustainability
  • Motherhood
    • Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss
    • Pregnancy Updates
    • Gabe's Birth Story
    • Theo's Birth Story
    • Everything You Need to Know about Babywearing.
    • Sleep Training Success without (Many) Tears.
    • On Careers and Ladders and Motherhood.
    • Answering Questions: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
    • Anxiety, Committment, and Childbirth, Oh My!
    • All posts about motherhood & parenting
  • Career & Business
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    • My Freelance-aversary & Some Thoughts on Making Your Life What You Want.
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    • Why I Use the Genesis Framework.
    • Why I Love Redbooth for Project & Task Management
    • Working from Home Tips & Time Management Strategies.
    • How Does She Do It All? She Doesn't.
    • Working Mama // Figuring Out Child Care.
    • Reader Question: Discerning A Career Path.
  • Travel
    • Our "Workcation" at the Outer Banks.
    • Traveling with a Babe.
    • Costa Rica and Puerto Rico Visit, Part 1 | Lazing about at a resort
    • Puerto Rico, Part 2 | Eating our Way Through Old San Juan
    • Where to Stay & What to Eat in Puerto Rico. (Part One)
    • What to Do & See in Puerto Rico. (Part Two)
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Blog

On Having Kids Four Years Apart.

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Quite often when I meet a mom with one child who is around 3, she asks me “so, how do you like your kids age gap? Because it’s looking like that’s what ours will be.” My kids are 3 years and 10 months apart. I usually respond something like “I like it! I had intendedRead the whole post >>

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May Update & June Intentions

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May Update- Only eat added sugar on the weekend. // Yes. (Aside from a few days, but 90% of the time, yes!) I feel so much better and will continue to do this for the foreseeable future. I didn’t feel restricted because I knew I could eat sugar on the weekends. But I also foundRead the whole post >>

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Homeschooling – Why and How We Do it for Kindergarten.

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“We are homeschooling Gabe for kindergarten but we’re not the weird kind of homeschoolers,” I told our babysitter when I was interviewing her. Homeschooling just sounds a little sad and lonely, right? At least to me. Like, the mental image I get when I hear the word “homeschooled”…isn’t positive. But here we are. Finishing ourRead the whole post >>

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Finding Life after Loss.

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Involves new hairstyles, eating my feelings in sugar form, and buying my kids matching clothing. I haven’t been sure what to write about here anymore. I feel like I’m 32, surely I shouldn’t be publicly journaling and sharing my thoughts, right? I’ve grown past that. Need to keep those thoughts and feelings private. And yet.Read the whole post >>

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February Update & March Intentions.

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(I’m going to start responding individually to the comments from my last post, but thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support. ❤ It means so much.) February Update- Get my medical records. // Half done – I still need to get local midwives records because I can only go at noon and it hasn’tRead the whole post >>

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When Your “Rainbow Baby” Dies, Too.

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On July 22nd, I took a pregnancy test. It was 12 weeks to the day after I’d given birth to Clare and still no period, so I wanted to be sure. To rule out pregnancy, right? It was negative, as I expected, so I threw it in the trash. A few hours later, I peekedRead the whole post >>

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February Intentions & Goals for 2017.

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(Hi, hello, it’s been a LONG time. Probably the longest time period I’ve ever gone without blogging. Is anyone still reading? Are blogs still relevant? Whatever, who cares. I’ll catch you up soon on the terribleness that has been 2016, but for now – I want to talk about February and 2017. And making goals/settingRead the whole post >>

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Life Lately // On Where We Live, Snow in October, Child Care.

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I am on Twitter and Instagram most days, but here is our life lately: We absolutely, positively ADORE where we live. 27 restaurants within a three-quarters of a mile of us, a dozen coffee shops, a library, several yoga studios, several acupuncture clinics, a shopping center, a natural foods grocery store, and two pharmacies. ToRead the whole post >>

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Political Podcasts I Listen To.

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This post will only appeal to a very small, very nerdy subset of people who love both politics and podcasts. Hello, friends. Let’s nerd out. I feel like my only interest lately is the election. I AM OBSESSED, YOU GUYS. I listen to podcasts all day. I don’t have much time to sit down and read articlesRead the whole post >>

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September Update & October Intentions

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These leaves should be changing soon! [September Update] Finish unpacking // Done and done! I know some people can live with unpacked boxes for years and it doesn’t bother them, but I’ve moved a lot in my life (15 times, at least) and I get itchy when there are still boxes to be unpacked. Make fallRead the whole post >>

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Saving Money & Living Frugally

Doing a Buy Nothing Month.

Every so often, my eating junk food gets a little out of control and do a little juice cleanse. To help reset my body’s ideas of … [Read More...]

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Simple Living & Minimalism

Long Distance Moving and Decluttering – A Few Tips.

We're in the midst of a long distance move to Massachusetts this month (in the nomadic portion of our move - we moved out of our … [Read More...]

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Green Living & Sustainability

Choosing between Convenience and Values.

A reader asks: How do you decide when to focus your energy on better choices versus choosing convenience? I think it can be so … [Read More...]

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Motherhood & Parenting

The Story of Eleanor.

(Warning, this post will contain mentions of bodily fluid) How Eleanor Came to Be. I want to write this all down while I still … [Read More...]

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Career & Business

A New Leaf. Little Leaf.

(Yes, I am a dork.) Your website should be like an extra employee. Who works non stop 24/7. I recently overhauled my site … [Read More...]

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Recipes

Recipe: Curried Greens and Chickpeas

Recipe: Vegetarian Ramen.

Recipe: Sweet and Sour Tempeh with Pineapple and Cashews.

Recipe: Tofu Lettuce Wraps.

Recipe: Bistro Broccoli Chowder

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