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Excited about: Co-hosting the Love in Motherhood Link-Up tomorrow with the lovely ladies at A Mama Collective and Jen at Defining My Happy! I can't wait to read all the beautiful stories of motherhood. If you have a story to share, please join us!

Thankful for: Time spent with dear friends. Friday night, after Emmett went to bed, I met up with a friend I've been dying to see to paint plates at As You Wish. I'm a big fan of simple activities you can do while chatting with girlfriends. It makes conversation flow, and makes it easier to talk about the hard things. 

Reading: I'm embarrassed to say I'm re-reading the Inspector Rebus novels from the beginning. I just can't let go of a good series! If you know of another series - something to hold my attention for a long time - let me know!

Watching: The Olympics! I can't turn it off. I love the figure skating, ski jumping, and any and all snow board sports. I can't wait for the curling to start, and I've been laughing for days at the announcer for the cross-country skiing events. He's so excited, you can't help but freak out a little when the first skiers enter the final stretch!

Our Weekend: Was a good one. We napped, took walks, went to the park, saw friends, and made some big decisions. Little Emmett started singing, breaking hearts from here to Georgia and back again. That sweet boy makes our days so fun! 

^^Swinging like a big boy, and stopping to smell every. single. flower we pass.

^^^Some fun at the park on Friday. It was cold, but so fun to have the park all to ourselves!

 ^Ray and I rode our bikes to a friend's birthday party Saturday night. It was so romantic. :)

^^^An afternoon in the sun with family at a barbecue. 

I hope you had a lovely weekend! Linking up with Jenny & of course, the lovely ladies at A Mama Collective!

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Love In Motherhood Link Up!

Today we are teaming up with a few of our favorite bloggers! We wanted to announce this idea with y'all so you can join forces with us to spread Love in Motherhood.

We are about to begin a monthlong series called "Love in Motherhood." We will write a post about our story of enduring a struggle of motherhood (guilt, temper, busy-ness, comparing to others, etc.), and how someone weaved LOVE into our story. It can be a friend, your spouse, a stranger, your children, God, anything/one. Each of the hostesses will be sharing and we want you to play along!

THE HOSTESSES:

1. Anna Kate of Home Away from Home
2. Jen of Defining My Happy
3. Jenna & Mary of A Mama Collective

HOW IT WORKS: First, head to each of the hostess’ sites beginning Tuesday, February 11th to check out their posts! Then, write your own post about Love in Motherhood. We want you to tell how love rewrote your story! You will then link up on any ONE of the hostess’ sites. Our links will be interlinked so that your post will be displayed on all of our sites!
 
We will have a new post go live every single Tuesday for four weeks to continue to spread the love in motherhood story. You are welcome to link up with us every. single. time. Or just once. You choose! Please share on instagram with the hashtag #loveinmotherhood so we can support each other. We can't wait to see what you all have to say about the journey of love in motherhood for you.

Can't wait to hear your stories!

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A portrait of my Emmett, once a week, every week in 2014.

Emmett loves oatmeal. He wakes up every morning asking for "meal meal meal!" He sits in his highchair talking frantically about "meal" until you finally give him the bowl. Then it's focused silence until he's eaten every last oat. This week, I want to remember him covered in oatmeal, happy as can be. Also, those ears.