It's been an amazing summer so far, with a trip to the Salzburg mountains and so many sweet, simple moments with my son. We've had a wonderful mix of rain and heat, and the w...
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"Childhood is a short season." -Helen Hayes These are just a few snippets of the beautiful year we have been having so far. Writing those words....
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The other day, through tears, I said to my husband, "I just miss feeling normal." He said: "There's going to be a new normal. Life will never be t...
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Hope you are all having a beautiful Autumn. Thank you all so much for your kind words regarding the loss of my mother. xoxoxo Dawn
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These pictures were taken just outside of San Francisco on the morning of August 25th. Later that day, my Mom died. She had been ill for a long time without knowi...
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The first month of the year came and went in the blink of an eye. So many changes and new routines. Rafael began going to daycare two mornings a week and is getting settled i...
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I hope you're all enjoying the holidays. Things are very different with my husband home. Rafael is so excited to play and spend time with his father, and he usually pushes me aw...
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Although there is no snow, everything is gilded with ice. The frozen ground crunches under foot and the tree tops are frosted white. I took...
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“Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friend...
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What an unexpected, beautiful surprise, now at the end of the year, to discover a completely new path in the woods. As you know, I walk our dogs every day. An...
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I've been keeping the kitchen warm with baking. The last pumpkin pie has been finished off and now we're on to more Christmasy things like gingerbread cutouts, butter...
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As the cold and mist settle in and the last leaves flutter down from bare branches, I am ready to welcome winter, and say farewell to 2013. Since moving to a...
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As I write this, Rafael is cuddled up on the couch with a fever watching Handy Manny, and the first snow is falling outside, leaving everything covere...
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This goodbye has been so much easier than our first .....it went so fast and I never saw it's heart beating. Still, it is a cruel thing...being taken on an em...
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What these pictures don't tell you is that the past couple of weeks have been a struggle. My husband was nearing a burn-out, I cry almost every morning out of frustra...
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I am overwhelmed, beginning this post, with the goal of recording what my two year old son Rafael is like right now. The funny, amazing things he says...
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Simple, happy things: - Chewy homemade Oreo brownies under a glass dome, surrounded by pumpkins and pressed leaves - Walks in the autumn w...
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"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." -William Feather I have days when I feel that I am not doing enough...
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There was a time when I led a long-distance relationship with my now-husband. Back then, he would take a seven-hour train ride from Vienna to Frankfur...
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These were taken the other day at my friend Dani's little farm on the outskirts of town. "We have twenty-six apple trees on this piece of land," she told Ste...
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I do love getting outside, any month of the year. But most of all, October. Every morning in October, the woods have transformed. Every ev...
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Considering all of the nature photos on this blog, it would seem we live in the forest. But we actually do spend a lot of time in our cozy little home. Here are a few photos I took toda...
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The fort pictured here is something I built together with Rafael, his cousins, and his grandma and grandpa the past couple of weeks. We would stop there on ou...
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A few days ago I told a Mom who has teenaged children about Rafael's picky eating, and she said: "You know what I think kept my kids healthy when they wer...
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(( Good morning birthday boy! Here's Raffi and I, still in our pajamas, opening his first gifts )) (( Here's Raffi eating his favorite breakfast, his Dad's oatmeal pancakes with butte...
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