Hello, sweet friends! It’s February! It’s 02.02.22 to be precise. We survived January. My goodness, to be honest, sometimes I wondered if I would. It was a really hard month for us. We all got sick, I got bullied (more about that soon), and a bunch of other long-unresolved issues came bubbling to the surface causing a mess of stress. It was a really hard month in so many ways.…
winter
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5 Health and Wellness Tips for Winter
Read moreWinter is a polarizing season. People either love it (coziness, holidays, decorations galore) or hate it (cold, cold, and more cold). But if there’s one thing people can agree on, it’s that winter should be a time of comfort (and alright, a little overindulgence). Between…
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Beauty in Darkness // Winter
Read more“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’” Over the weekend,…
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Nature Walk in March
Read moreThe harshest winter of my lifetime is slowly creeping to an end. It’s below freezing again today, but it warmed up enough to start melting snow over the weekend. We took advantage and went on our first real nature walk since autumn. Roman is really…
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Hope in the Dark Places
Read more“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.” —Albert Camus…
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lovely weather for a sleigh ride together…
Read moreThis Valentine’s Day was the best one yet. It’s not surprising, considering that I had the sweetest valentine in the whole wide world. We had another week of snow, but on Friday afternoon the sun came out, the temperature finally crept above freezing, and we…
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a little trip to the library…
Read moreI’m not even going to lie… I’m getting desperate for ideas to get us out of the house. I know I’ve said it before, but winter is always hard around here, and this one has been the hardest in years. The temperatures have plummeted again…
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Winter Days & Spring Dreams
Read moreIt’s been a long winter and we’ve still got three months to go. We’ve had two weeks of arctic blasts — temperatures far below freezing. And we’ve had more snow storms than I can even count. We got nine inches yesterday and we’re said to…
