We have a 16 day trip to Europe coming up soon and I am sure you can imagine already, but I am feeling incredibly anxious. As the days pass, I realize how much there is to do to prepare, on top of the stuff we're already doing. I used to consider myself very laidback and the go-with-the-flow type. Introduce a husband and now...

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Today is the first official day of fall. To celebrate I found these photos I took of Ruby when she was seven months old with hardly any hair.  I don't think it's going to feel like fall over here until we get back from our trip. I am working on a packing list now and shorts are nowhere to be found. Jordan recently...

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This is what the last two Saturdays have looked like in our home, and i'm not even mad about it. It's been so refreshing to have normal fall-like saturdays at home. I'm sure all day long football will get tiring soon, but Jordan always does extra chores and folds all the laundry on game days, so I'll take it!  Ruby doesn't sit still...

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It has been a lovely rainy day over here and it reminded me of these photos I snapped of Ruby after church one rainy afternoon. I've always enjoyed rainy days, you know, the ones where you don't have anywhere to be and can stay at home. While we still spend most of our days at home, rainy days feel different. I love being...

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Becoming a mama has been such a sweet transformation. I'm so thankful for all of the changes this past year and some odd months. I keep learning more about being a mama & really, more about me. Through taking care of Ruby and her needs, I've learned to think about how to care for myself as well. It brings me joy to make...

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september is here & my mind is racing with thoughts as we begin a new month. not all new months are like this. september is a big jump. with the start of a new school year, and the entrance of fall, a new season. with summer ending soon, i realize how fast it's gone by. it feels like it was just may. i...

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Happy Monday, dear friends. It's another happy Monday over here in the Ryan house. Yesterday, Jordan finished up his last day of his hardest rotation yet. And while today isn't technically a day off, (he's working tonight) we're calling it. We've been soaking it in all morning. Several times we've reminded ourselves that he's really done. And now he has one more rotation...

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I have some thoughts on making routines and habits to share with you today. And I am just going to start out saying that this is coming from the person who just doesn't get routines and has a hard time doing the same thing twice. I've been working really hard this year on forming habits and routines in a way that works for...

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Last Monday was my birthday. I turned 27. It was a rainy, cold, Monday which was unlike any birthday I've had before. It's usually bright and sunny on the 16th of May. I also woke up smelling like a campfire and in a tent. Jordan's birthday is the day after mine, on the 17th, so I decided it was a good idea to...

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Jordan and I got in an argument recently about cleaning. A lot has changed since Ruby, and one of them being that I've taken on more of the cleaning responsibility around the house. I won't go too much farther, because the point of the argument wasn't about cleaning per say.  It was about how we approach things. I don't like our house messy,...

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