We’ve done a ton of traveling this year. When your husband has a fall break, two weeks of spring break, and five weeks of Christmas break (plus, classes only twice a week), you try not to waste the opportunity. After Williamsburg, a cruise, Washington DC, and now Chicago, I’m feeling a lot braver about traveling with kids than I was…
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Makeup Anxiety
You know what this post will not be? A makeup tutorial. Because, as I’ve mentioned before, I am a complete makeup novice. In fact, between the time bareMinerals asked me to partner with them on their new bareSkin liquid foundation launch and the time the makeup arrived on my doorstep, I had multiple makeup-related dreams. Apparently, I have makeup anxiety….
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Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table by Shauna Niequist
During our Chicago trip last week, I felt extremely burned out. Over the last year, I’ve been working more than I ever have (except maybe my last year as an undergrad when I was working three jobs and taking a full class load, or . . . maybe my second year of grad school when I was working three jobs…
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Raiding My Sister’s Closet: Wardrobe Workhorse – Box Pleat Skirt
In January, each of us shared one of the items in our closet that got a lot of wear. Here’s #2. I have two of these box pleat skirts (the first one I’ve had for about three years, and I still wear it frequently). This one is new as of a few months ago, and I can’t get enough of…
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Felices Viajes
Last June, I spilled the beans about our move to North Carolina and Bart’s acceptance to Duke’s MBA program. I hadn’t hinted at all about it on my blog, despite the fact we’d spent more than a year talking seriously about an MBA (and the previous six tossing around the idea more casually). But now, we have another move coming…
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