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two christmasses, twentytwenty.

Posted on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020by sarah

we made it to christmas in 2020! it’s been a year, right? when our thanksgiving plans were ruined by some covid spiking, and then things just kept getting worse, i assumed that there was no way we would be celebrating our traditional “swedish” christmas with grandlidboms and madge. but, the grandlidboms pulled it off. we […]

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hazel is seven!!!!

Posted on December 29, 2020December 29, 2020by sarah

i don’t know how it all went by so quickly, but the baby hazelnut turned seven this month. seven! even though we were thick in the stupid post thanksgiving covid spike, we were determined to make her day epic. we kicked things off with gramma and grampa dropping off a special delivery of duck donuts, […]

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monthly non-adventure post, july edition.

Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020by sarah

another month of pandemic life has come and gone. things are still sort of opened, but now cases are back on the increase, so no one knows what to make of anything anymore. it’s madness. but somehow, the month still managed to fly by, maybe because we are used to it at this point. all […]

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the annababy is ten.

Posted on May 15, 2020May 15, 2020by sarah

one week ago, our beloved middle child, the annababy, turned ten. i cannot believe it was a decade ago that this kid hit the scene, taking us from a family of three to four. anna loves to read, draw, write, and paint. she is a curious learner but definitely hates math. she loves nature and […]

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april in quarantine.

Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020by sarah

at the start of april, time was seemingly standing still. the days were incredibly long. and it was hard to remember what day it actually was. we were still doing school. and arts and crafts. and dance. but the daily monotony was getting old. i busted out some clearance crafts that i picked up when […]

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march.
(quarantine begins).

Posted on May 13, 2020May 14, 2020by sarah

towards the end of our time in florida, the concern over the coronavirus was just picking up. we definitely gave a little extra thought to the fact that we were in a city with an international airport. but mostly, we had no idea that things were about to get real crazy real fast. when we […]

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grandlidbom 50th!
and related craziness.

Posted on February 11, 2020February 12, 2020by sarah

as soon as christmas was in our rearview mirror, and we had recovered mostly from various illnesses, we began planning to host derek’s parents fiftieth wedding anniversary party at our house. i acquired generous amounts of sprinkles and golden decor at post christmas clearance sales. and everything was set. and then mayhem struck. the night […]

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all the christmasses, 2019.

Posted on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020by sarah

in all the years that we have been local, we celebrate christmas early, with derek’s parents and his sister’s family, with a semi-swedish themed meal and gift exchange, at his parents house. i suppose they have celebrated it without us in the years that we weren’t local, but i guess i’ll allow it. anyhoooo. here’s […]

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polar express
(great smoky mountain railroad).

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020by sarah

we love watching and reading the polar express every year at christmas, and always say that someday we should ride the one of the many polar express themed train rides offered in our neck of the woods. well, our “maybe someday” turned into this year, when our family gift from the grandlidboms was a polar […]

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so much september.

Posted on November 19, 2019January 19, 2020by sarah

aside from a quick little trip to ny with anna and hazel, we laid low for most of september. we kicked off our homeschool year. and continued with co-op. football started. we baked a lot. anna started ballet officially. and there were lots of bugs and ruby snuggles. firstly. we started homeschool. the room came […]

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