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I Am
It’s time for a personal update that is all about Dawn the Person instead of Dawn the Mom. I’ve had an extremely powerful past few months, approaching age 40 in 2 years and really beginning to self actualize.
About twelve years ago I had a vision. In the midst of my [...]
Happy Halloween!
Logan was a scary skeleton and Forest was a scary (but oh so cuddly) dragon. They had a wonderful time getting dressed up and making it around the street trick or treating. They were little pros at the Halloween thing!
Logan loved his makeup and costume so much he kept running to look at [...]
Picnics in the Park
Fall has finally found us here in Texas and it’s absolutely beautiful. At the same time, the strangest thing has happened. The boys are just a few short months away from 4 years old and they play independently with each other ALL THE TIME. It’s magical not only because I find myself [...]
How I Spent My Weekend
We bought a home just over a year ago and are finally getting around to making it “ours”. Our first project was to paint the boys’ bedroom. Logan loves color and had very strong opinions about wanting a dark blue room, we were able to get his buy in to add some green, using their [...]
Perfection
I packed the kids, lots of changes of clothes, a random assortment of the foods they like to eat, and drove the three of us to my friend and mentor’s home for a 24 hour visit. Mind you, this home of hers is 60+ acres of pine forest in East Texas. As Logan [...]
Self Portrait #1
One of my blog friends, Laura, is many things including but not limited to: mother of twins, runner, career woman, and photographer. She did a post today encouraging more pictures of ourselves and suggested Friday’s for these images. My fancy camera is on loan right now to a friend who is expecting a [...]
More from Washington
All of these pictures from Washington state were taken with Brad’s iPhone so they aren’t the greatest but they sure are good for what they are!
Ice Cream!
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Forest
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Logan
Logan wanted up on this “seat” and worked really hard climbing around some much bigger boys to get to it. Once there he [...]
Evergreen State of Mind
We just returned from a six day vacation to visit my parents at their home near Tacoma, Washington. I am madly in love with the Pacific Northwest. The mountains, the trees, the ocean, it fills all of my senses with ecstatic rejoicing.
The boys had only been there once before, at four months old [...]
Dragon
Old Navy brought us a great surprise today when we went to buy some winter clothes during their baby clothes sale. I’ve always resisted shopping for clothes out of season because it’s really hard to even think about long sleeves and long pants when it’s 90 degrees plus and 100% humidity outside. But I [...]
You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello
It’s been a week now since Forest said good bye to naps (Logan gave them up about 6 months ago) and I find myself with no official child free break during my day. Surprisingly, the timing seems to be very nice because the boys are so good about playing with each other that I find [...]
