From the monthly archives:

December 2011

Small Style – This Christmas

December 30, 2011

It was our first Christmas with a baby girl,

even though she spent the holiday with roseola
and the pitiful attitude to go along with it.

It was the first Christmas where vinyl was played,
the first with our new vintage tinsel tree,
the first where cornbread muffins and cupcakes were from scratch
and one where the gifts were not lavish, [...]

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On Christmas Shopping with Digital Folio

December 16, 2011

I don’t know about you, but I’m still spending time online today scrambling for some last minute shopping (today is a “standard shipping” cutoff for many stores) and would love love love to win some Christmas money for Target.
This is a sponsored post but I thought it was a pretty cool campaign and I LOVE [...]

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Come See The River

December 7, 2011

She is the deep thinker I am.
Perplexed by the camera which turns grins into hilarious judgy baby face.
She prefers me, which is entirely new to this mama.
{swoon to the max}
She is having good nights and the evenings are still hard but I know her cries now.
I can tell when she just wants me. Or [...]

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A Confession

December 4, 2011

Sometimes it’s the epitome of that feeling of being watched. You are not your own anymore.
You have that Not You inside you, literally there in a tangible way that if we just invented the right kind of scan they’d be able to locate it.
A soul scan.
The unseen aren’t nonexistent, just viewed with special eyes.
I [...]

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Go Learn. Go Discover.

December 1, 2011

You who are tiny and strong.
You who are brave.
Do you know how unique you are?
You are the generation that will never NOT know the internet.
That? Is special.
It means that since your birthed day,
you have had an epic amount of possibilities available to you.
You don’t know that making a Christmas list online is a new-ish delight.
You [...]