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a birthday for nash

olive june July 9, 2024

written on the evening of june 12, 2024 | today you are six, my lovemy boy of wonder and lightlover of the color yellow and baking and picking flowers and making others laugha day full…

an afternoon tea for two

olive june June 19, 2024

as a family, my husband and i try to spend individual time with our children and lately, i have gone on a date with both of my sons. the younger son and i went to…

borrowed words

olive june June 6, 2024

“If the month of June was your friend

what i always want to remember | a mother’s day edition

olive june May 17, 2024

i always want to remember | 01. my parents were here to spend the weekend with us; extra special on mother’s day 02. my mom and i went to lunch and enjoyed an espresso martini,…

my reading challenge | 2023

olive june May 6, 2024

i am a little late at posting this but i wanted to share the books i read last year, along with my ratings. last year, i set a goal to read 40 books and i…

motherhood

season | spring

strawberry fields

olive june April 28, 2020
a morning with my boys at carrigan farms we spent this morning picking strawberries at a nearby farm and after everything these past few months… it felt pretty magical. we slowly wandered around the rows of luscious greens; the ripe strawberries were overflowing. parks was very…

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a grateful heart

olive june April 27, 2020
“I worked so hard to be liked and wanted so badly to be loved, only to have each attempt pruned back by the insensitivity of a world that wouldn’t slow down. Once I could drop down below the pain of my loneliness I came to…

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nearer

olive june April 17, 2020
borrowed words nearer “If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing…

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motherhood

season | spring

easter memories

olive june April 14, 2020
“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” -s.d gordon yesterday was a simple easter and was one we will probably never forget. we missed our loved ones dearly and thought of them often. there were phone calls and texts and a zoom…

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in our home

season | spring

light a candle . be still

olive june April 10, 2020
be still and know that i am with you. psalms 46:10 last time in his high chair we have been baking all the things this week: biscuits, cookies, and banana bread walking through our neighborhood . camp north end we were the only ones there…

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in our home

season | spring

staying home | a grateful heart

olive june March 30, 2020
“you’re not stuck at home … you’re safe at home” “in the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to.” -dave hollis a reminder “if you’re feeling anxious or stressed right now, it makes…

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motherhood

season | spring

an easter basket for parks + nash

olive june March 24, 2020
this post contains affiliate links . thank you so much for supporting this blog “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. And sweetest in the gale is heard; And…

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in our city

ten ways to support small businesses

olive june March 19, 2020
hope “If you only carry one thing throughout your entire life, let it be hope. Let it be hope that better things are always ahead. Let it be hope that you can get through even the toughest of times. Let it be hope that you…

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activity for kids | seashell letter matching

olive june March 18, 2020
“in the wild of changing things, hold on to the beautiful things.” -morgan harper nichols i saw this idea posted by a friend (@michellelynneverett) about creating alphabet shells for her daughter around christmastime. and thought it was the most darling idea… this alphabet seashells sensory…

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in our home

motherhood

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