Dripping with Passion

some travel adventures ended up stacked right together - first a long weekend in holland, then a week in dominican republic, then a trip to disneyland and paris right after having ian's parents in town for a visit. i have been learning a lot from the experience of having significant knee issues as i've reached the climax of my marathon training. and attempting to "stand with my burdens placed under my feet," looking with hope and light toward the future: the week we spent in the dominican republic with my parents and siblings, to celebrate my parents' fiftieth anniversary, was pretty dreamy. i've been writing the last bit of this post over a long period of time because both boys are now awake and i'm interrupted about every twenty seconds ;)

because of some changes with how blogger works as a blogging platform, i won't be posting here for a while. i need to figure out a new way to do this because blogger won't allow me to format blog posts in the way that i want to (to preserve layout and photo quality). while i sort it all out, i'll continue to post a bit onif you want to keep following along with our family's adventures. if there's anyone out there with blogger/wordpress, html, or graphic design expertise that they want to share, shoot me an email!

obsessed-with-animals moses loves it for the taxidermy :) mo is pretty much constantly giving his little brother hugs. and has come to adore his weekly music class - especially the bubbles at the end! we have a pretty firm no screens policy for our kids (with a big fat exception for airplanes), which i feel good about for now, but i ama very good example in my own screen time. it has beenfun to watch these little boys and girls become such loving friends and discover how friends make life so great.six.i have recently switched from using picasa to lightroom for editing photos. there's also a lot of sharing of baby/kid clothes/gear going on, which i. after having lots of one-off meetups to pass things off (both for borrowing and keeping) with different moms, a few weeks ago

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