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Week 42: Snow No!

November 10, 2014 By Lauren

First Snow

There seems to be two camps when it comes to the first snow of the season. There are the people who are horrified by it and there are the people who are thrilled by it. Usually the people who are horrified by it are over five feet tall and the ones who are thrilled by […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: first snow, fun, keeping it real, kids, magic, snow, winter, wonder

Week 41: I Might Be Crazy

November 1, 2014 By Lauren

NaNoWriMo

New to the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. I’ve signed up for something and I think I might be crazy for attempting it. What is it, you ask. I’m doing NaNoWriMo. Waiting for the collective gasp of disbelief…. Nothing? Oh wait, I bet 99% of you have no […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: crazy, fiction, goals, keeping it real, nanowrimo, novel, november, writing

Week 40: The Day I Ran Out of Coffee

October 27, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Challenge

First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to find out what it’s all about. You may notice that this week doesn’t have a movie title. It was just too much for my uncaffeinated brain. I might not go back. 5 am Alarm sounds. I have four stories burning a hole […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Keeping It Real Challenge, Parenting Humor Tagged With: caffeine, coffee, decaf, keeping it real, nap, tired, whine

One New Food and Keeping It Real Challenge Week 39: Fish Recipes

October 18, 2014 By Lauren

One New Food Fish Recipes

Today I’m bringing you an Oh, Honestly first: I’m combining my #ONENEWFOOD and Keeping It Real Challenge posts because… well, because trying our one new food this week was most definitely a Keeping It Real moment. Kristen and I promised you that we’d share healthy recipes each week to go along with our #ONENEWFOOD and […]

Filed Under: #ONENEWFOOD, Keeping It Real Challenge, Recipes Tagged With: #ONENEWFOOD, edamame, fish, flounder, food, haddock, healthy, keeping it real, kids, one new food, salmon, tilapia, vlog

Week 38: Unnecessary Meanness

October 13, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Challenge

If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, click here to find out what it’s all about. I’ll just apologize for this one right from the start. I’ve realized that writing is the best way for me to work through events and sort out my feelings. Sometimes I get […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: comments, haters, keeping it real, kindness, misunderstood, negative

Week 37: Gone Baby Gone

October 6, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Week 37

If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, click here to find out what it’s all about. Week 37: Gone Baby Gone I realized something this week. It’s a realization that’s been coming all summer, but it finally crystallized this week. I’ll back up a bit. Every spring since […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: baby, baby stage, content, growing up, keeping it real, motherhood, parenthood, parenting

Week 36: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

September 29, 2014 By Lauren

friendship

First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to find out what it’s all about. Have you ever been hit so hard by a realization that it almost physically hurts? I have. Just the other day, in fact. I’m not exactly sure how to explain this without going into all the […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: friends, friendship, introvert, keeping it real, miss out, realization, shy

Week 35: To Eli and Samuel on Their 6 1/3 and 4 1/3 Birthdays

September 23, 2014 By Lauren

To Eli and Samuel on Their 5 1/3 and 4 1/3 Birthdays

If you’re just joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to find out what it’s all about. We took the kids to Build-a-Bear this week. We were four months late. See, the kids’ birthdays all fall very close together in April and May. When I plan birthday parties I’m somewhere in […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: birthday, birthday party, build-a-bear, fall, keeping it real, pumpkins

Week 34: All Creatures Great and Small

September 14, 2014 By Lauren

Creation

If you’re just joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to find out what it’s all about. On Saturday the kids and I sat in the living room for probably 20 minutes, watching two squirrels run back and forth, gathering and storing acorns. As we watched, we asked question after question: […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: answers, caterpillars, creation, curiosity, fall, keeping it real, kids, nature, questions, slow down, squirrels

Week 33: Back to the Future

September 8, 2014 By Lauren

First day of school

If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, click here to find out what it’s all about. I have seen a glimpse into my future. Oddly, it looks a lot like my past. When we signed Samuel up for PreK, we had a hard time deciding how often to […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: alone, future, keeping it real, kids, mommy time, past, quiet, school, time alone

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