Category Archives: Celebrating

HERE’S TO UNEXPECTED PLOT TWISTS

By Julie | Published: March 31, 2013
Happy Easter! xo  
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LOVE

By Julie | Published: February 14, 2013
It happens. It does. In so many, many different ways. And not always the ways we think it will or expect it to or demand it to or imagine it will. In fact, almost never in those ways. But always, in one form or another it has the potential to happen. Because we are surrounded [...]
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ALMOST

By Julie | Published: December 24, 2012
The fourth advent candle has been lit (a day late, I know, I know). The 24th little door on the advent calendar has been opened, and the 24th tiny ornament hung. The children are nestled all snug in their beds. It’s almost time. Peace to you, friends. xo  
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THANKFUL

By Julie | Published: November 22, 2012
for the dinged up floor in our living room because it means we have a living room and a floor and a roof to match and shoes that scrape against the wood and feet to wear them and legs to carry them and lives that take us in and out and back and forth and [...]
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GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS GOOD NEWS

By Julie | Published: November 17, 2012
THE GOOD NEWS IS: I found this amazing funky 70s floor lamp at Goodwill a few months ago. Yes. Yes, I did. THE BAD NEWS IS: it was marked a whopping $25, which in Goodwill dollars is about $400. So I guess they knew what they had. THE GOOD NEWS IS: I knew what they [...]
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SWEET SIXTEEN

By Julie | Published: July 18, 2012
Where, oh where, oh where, have I been lately?? Well, at the ball fields, mostly. And when I haven’t been there, every other free moment these past few weeks has been spent planning and preparing a secret surprise sweet sixteen party for R-girl. See, a few weeks ago R-girl mentioned she might want to do [...]
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AT THE LAKE

By Julie | Published: June 29, 2012
If you don’t live here, you might not realize that Minneapolis becomes a bit of a ghost town every weekend of the summer, when half the population heads to their lakeside getaways on  Minnesota’s 10,000 or so pieces of paradise. But nothing compares to this week. This is the Superbowl of cabin going, when not only [...]
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SUMMATIME

By Julie | Published: June 20, 2012
Happy first—and longest—day of summer, friends! Here’s to a whole bunch more. xo  
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

By Julie | Published: May 13, 2012
Because it’s the nuttiest hardest sweetest happiest most amazing most challenging most heart-stretching most crazy-making most sacred most silly most humbling most messy most important job I have ever done and ever will do, I greet this day with a certain sense of pride and disbelief and gratefulness and awe. R-kids, you are the reason for my [...]
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GET THIS ON RECORD

By Julie | Published: April 20, 2012
OK so tomorrow is Record Store Day. Which is so perfect – because this past week I’ve been record shopping! Except…I must be honest. Not for the music. For the album covers! I’ve got some new ideas brewing for my living room – I think I’m ready for some changes! – and I’ve done a [...]
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