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The Best Gift

by Kate P. on 12/27/2010

We always gather on Christmas Eve to celebrate. It’s never formal, we show up in our jeans and boots, because we’re going down to the farm, there’s a chance of getting muddy. Except now I’m an adult, I can’t tell you the last time I went down to the fields and got dirty, but it’s [...]

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This Thing Called Motherhood

by Kate P. on 08/30/2010

Motherhood is… Falling in love with baby from the very beginning… Getting excited over a diaper bag (who knew they could be so exciting?!)… Meeting for the very first time… Telling your dad you named your son after him & crying when you did it… Bringing Baby home & being nervous about how to take [...]

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The only constant in life is Change

by Kate P. on 07/27/2010

Today I was at my grandparents’ house looking at old, black and white pictures of my grandmother’s parents, of my grandmother when she was a little girl and pictures of her when she was my age with little babies hugging her ankles. That’s when this thought/feeling ran over me like a freight train that LIFE just feels so much [...]

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