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Simple Steps for a Detox During Lockdown
Read moreHello, friends! I hope that you are holding up okay. Here we are starting week six of lockdown. It’s almost unthinkable, but we are all struggling with negative thoughts, confusion and anxiety together. Each time I have this conversation, I come around to the same…
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Homemade Pasta
Read moreA Short Tale of Pasta and Self-Made Pasta Spaghetti, macaroni, alfredo, tortellini, lasagna, tagliatelle, penne – do any of these titles ring a bell to you? If they do, then you’re probably a pasta lover much like myself. You simply can’t go wrong with pasta.…
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Bringin’ Home a Baby Honey Bee…
Read moreOver the weekend, another one of our long-time dreams came true: We got honey bees! J. and I have both been dreaming of having honey bee hives for years and years. A long time ago when we both realized it was something that we wanted,…
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The Pandemic & Our Seedlings
Read moreWe’ve just started our fourth week in quarantine. We’re going on a month of isolation. A couple of days before the decision was made to close my children’s school, I was in parent teacher conferences with their teachers. Roman’s teacher asked me if we had…
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Thoughts on Blended Family Life…
Read moreThere is so much to say about blended family life. It’s not something that I ever anticipated for myself; but life has a funny way of doing that, doesn’t it? Presenting you with the unexpected. Sometimes it feels like my little family just expanded overnight…
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Oh Deer! Marina’s 5th Birthday Party
Read moreThis was certainly an interesting year for Marina’s birthday celebrations. I had been planning her party for months and as it turned out the date I chose was situated just at the beginning of the pandemic craziness. Gratefully, the shelter in place recommendations had not…
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Planting Seeds and Finding Hope
Read moreHappy Monday, sweet friends. What a strange time we are in. So much has changed in the ten days since I shared my thoughts on the pandemic. At that point, it was just a looming anxiety over what was to come. Now, as we approach…
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thoughts on the corona virus, from a mother
Read more“It feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone,” is what the text message from my best friend read this morning. And that summed it up. I feel a mixture of emotions, but mainly anxiety, which is nothing new to me, though greatly intensified in…