Currently growing in Southern California
It’s 5am. My alarm goes off, but I have already been awake for a little while just lying in bed enjoying the silence of the early morning. No other time of day is this quiet and peaceful. I reach over and hit the off button on my phone before the ringing wakes Gavin, who has likely snuck into bed next to me sometime during the night. After rising from the warmth of the blankets, the very first thing I do is head to my new espresso machine in the kitchen.
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The afternoons are the hardest. I drive to Brae’s school after leaving work and cannot stop yawning. I yawn so often that my jaw starts to ache and I turn up the music hoping I won’t fall asleep at the wheel. I couldn’t figure out what was causing me to be so tired in the middle…
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I made this salad in the work lunchroom once and everyone kept commenting on how good the cut veggies smelled and how beautiful it was. So it would be an easy, yet impressive side dish for a potluck. The best thing is it only takes about 15 minutes to make.
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Hello Readers! I hope all of you have been having a wonderful year so far! I wanted to do a little update on what we have been up to. The kids and I are living in southern California not far from Los Angeles. Brae is in 7th grade and Gavin is in Transitional Kindergarten. We…
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Sometimes things happen that completely throw all our plans out the window. They make you question what you are doing with your life or force you to remake something of the pieces that are left.
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Happy Autumn Equinox! Mother Earth decided to bless us by sending our first real Fall day. The temperature dropped from the upper 90s down to 72 and breezy in just a couple days. The wind smelled wet and cold. It blew strongest in the afternoon and the dust was so thick in places that visibility was…
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I woke up in the middle of the night freezing cold. Even though I had a fuzzy warm blanket and my son snuggled up next to me, it wasn’t enough to keep me warm. I managed to sleep the rest of the night, but first thing this morning, before I even made coffee, I lit…
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Are you feeling those first stirrings of Fall yet? I know I have been for a couple of weeks now. The nights are much cooler. My bedroom windows are still open at night, but only a crack. The evenings are still very warm but I have pulled out the warmer blankets for the middle of…
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*This is going to be long, but its necessary to tell the whole thing. I relied heavily on stories people told online to pinpoint my symptoms and eventually come up with a cure, so here is my story. I hope it helps someone out there. I wake up at 6 am, still exhausted from the…
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Here I sit. In my newish apartment overlooking the Southern California desert where we now call home. I have been wanting to write this post for months, but the right words have eluded me. How do I explain all that has happened to our little family over the last two years. All the struggle, the…
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Shoots and Roots 