Working mom of two great boys. I worked out through my entire second pregnancy and have continued to maintain a fit and healthy lifestyle post-partum.... with occasional brownie splurges!
Summer Preview
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
Summer is so close I can taste it. So close that today we dipped our feet in,
and smelled the roses,
while we searched for trains
and ...
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Surprise!!
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
I have pretty amazing family and friends. I already knew this, but it was even more solidified when Shane, Julie , and Donya managed to throw off a surprise party for my 30t ...
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Down and Dirty
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
At my party a few weeks ago (I am going to blog about this very soon, I promise, I just need to get pictures in order!), there was a sign welcoming to the dirty thirties. ...
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Graduate
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
It's hard to believe, but this guy had his last day of preschool today.
As in, he's so big that he'll be going full-time to Kindergarten in August.
I'm not going ...
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For Hope
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms." ~ Mark Twain
When the boys were babies, I used to watch the rise and fall of thei ...
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Surprise!
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
So, a party happened and I was invited, but I didn't know it until we arrived, thanks to the trickery of Julie , Donya , my husband and everyone else who knew about it but k ...
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Miles To Go
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
One year ago exactly, I did the first day of Couch to 5k. I still remember huffing and puffing back and forth between stop signs, thinking that there was NO WAY this was goi ...
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Tommy's Team
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
With each day that ticks by, I can't believe it's been so long since Tommy has had a seizure. Since early October. That's so many months, so many days. I could count them a ...
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Three-Zero
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
I'll be 30 soon. Just a few weeks from now, my age rolls over into a new decade.
I'm not really one that fears getting older. My 8th grader students found me horribly ...
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Flying
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
I don't run fast. Sometimes I find myself wishing I'd been less defiant in middle and high school and actually tried running, instead of sneering and walking a 15 minute mil ...
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spring break favorites
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
Spring break was really pretty good to us. Once I recovered from the half, we settled into a nice groove of just hanging out and going on little adventures every day. One da ...
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Team Tommy {winner}
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
Thanks to all who commented to my Team Tommy post!
I decided to go anti-high tech and have Luke help me choose a winner the old fashioned way. I put a slip of paper in ...
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Easter
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
I love Easter. It is my favorite of favorites and always has been. It's about hope. Life. Renewal. And also, candy and deviled eggs, both of which I love, amen.
Thanks ...
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Holding Our Breath
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
When Tommy first started having seizures a year and a half ago, we ended up meeting with the on-call pediatric neurologist at our local hospital. After breezing into the roo ...
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13.1
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
I'm not sure if I was smiling because I did it or if I was smiling because it was DONE. Running a half-marathon was equal parts what I expected and equal parts harde ...
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Spring!
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
I've been running in the morning to avoid the insane afternoon heat. Despite it still being dark outside, the air is warm and the birds are chirping and I just think that th ...
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Tommy Time
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
Since Tommy was born, Shane and I both became more conscious of making time for one-on-one time with Luke. It's hard when you go from being the center of your parents' unive ...
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Springy
by
Erin
Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting
“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in o ...
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