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    • How and Why We Budget.
    • Doing a Buy Nothing Month.
    • Choosing between Convenience and Values.
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    • Everything You Need to Know about Babywearing.
    • Sleep Training Success without (Many) Tears.
    • On Careers and Ladders and Motherhood.
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    • Anxiety, Committment, and Childbirth, Oh My!
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  • Career & Business
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    • How Does She Do It All? She Doesn't.
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    • Reader Question: Discerning A Career Path.
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Days, Months, Years.

Filed Under: Motherhood 17 Comments

The first few days of Gabe’s life were some of the slowest, sweetest days of my life. I remember thinking, “Oh! It’s past 2:16 am! He’s three days old!” Every morning, I declared, “X days old is my favorite age.” I was smitten. And already mourning a time when I wouldn’t measure Gabe’s life inRead the whole post >>

December 21, 2011 · Tagged With: Gabe, photos 17 Comments

November Update & December Intentions.

Filed Under: Personal & Life Updates 21 Comments

[November Goals Revisited] Keep my house clean with the daily 6 ( make beds right away, keep your kitchen sink empty, do a load of laundry most days, clean up after yourself, bathroom wipe-down, before bed 10-minute clean up)  |  Medium check! I did most of these many of the days, but I think theRead the whole post >>

December 1, 2011 · Tagged With: photos, plastic 21 Comments

November Pumpkin Treats.

Filed Under: Personal & Life Updates, Recipes 10 Comments

Pumpkin-flavored goodies get a lot of attention in October. Everyone’s all a-flutter about pumpkin spice lattes and pumpkin pancakes and carving pumpkins and such for the month of October. Then, aside from pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving, poor little pumpkin is thrown by the wayside, neglected and forgotten in favor of Christmas cookies and peppermint mochas.Read the whole post >>

November 9, 2011 · Tagged With: photos 10 Comments

October Update & November Intentions.

Filed Under: Personal & Life Updates 11 Comments

Now that we all can breathe a collective sigh of relief that we’re so totally not perfect, I’d like to revisit my October goals. Because, yes, I certainly don’t and can’t do it all, but that doesn’t mean I want to be sedentary. I want to learn new things. I want to deepen my relationships.Read the whole post >>

November 2, 2011 · Tagged With: monthly goals, photos 11 Comments

He’s Not a Baby, Not Yet a Toddler.

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(Yes, I still sing old Britney Spears songs to myself.) (She’s so lucky, she’s a star. But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart…Ahem.) (If you have no idea what I’m talking about: this.) Gabe is in limbo between babyhood and toddlerhood, but took one giant leap into toddlerhood with his very first haircut.Read the whole post >>

October 18, 2011 · Tagged With: Gabe, photos 13 Comments

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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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