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1-1/2 Years Old

September 30, 2009 – 11:24 pm

Six months 18 months Happy half birthday my love. “But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” —Benjamin Disraeli

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Road Trip to Louisville

September 26, 2009 – 4:28 pm

Last week Tari and I loaded our three toddlers into a minivan for a two-day trip to Louisville, Ky to visit our dear friend and former co-worker Maria, her son, Vincent, and her baby-to-be (who is now here!) Nolan. Whitney and Lauren running in the backyard Sophie sharing Sophie not sharing (Sophie was so good […]

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At Ault Park with Sam

September 26, 2009 – 4:21 pm

“The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.” —Natalie Kocsis

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Trouble

September 21, 2009 – 11:38 pm

“It takes two to get one in trouble.” —Mae West

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Cookies & Wine

September 21, 2009 – 11:25 pm

On a recent Friday night, while the boys did their boy things, the girls got together for a Cookies & Wine party, hosted by Angel. She had raw cookie dough and tons of mix-ins for us to create yummy, personal cookies. Sophie immediately ran over to Zoey upon our arrival. But as more people arrived, […]

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Tucker, Give the Ball

September 20, 2009 – 2:07 pm

“Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.” —James Herriot

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On Giving In

September 15, 2009 – 4:10 pm

I made the mistake of putting Sophie in her plastic shopping cart and pushing her around one time. It was a fun, exhausting afternoon, with several-near topples, Sophie laughing hysterically and Tucker chasing us. But now Sophie’s obsessed with it. No longer does she just want to push it or play with all its fantastic […]

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Home-grown Tomatoes

September 15, 2009 – 4:03 pm

“Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoesWhat would life be like without homegrown tomatoesOnly two things that money can’t buyThat’s true love and home grown tomatoes.”—John Denver, ‘Home Grown Tomatoes’(from a song written by Guy Clark)

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A Labor Day Weekend Party

September 15, 2009 – 3:52 pm

Labor Day weekend we went to a party at Mandy and Bill’s house, to meet Amy’s fiance, Eric, and check out all the amazing things Mandy and Bill have done to their home, including refinishing their basement. This was after the first OSU football game, hence Andy’s smile. Evan and Chris Dara and Mike Eric […]

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Burgess Falls, TN—a Pictorial Essay

September 12, 2009 – 11:20 pm

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” —John Muir

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    I’m grateful for the work I do @lostartpress for many reasons, No. 1 being the people I get to work with. Thank you, @burnheartmade, for helping these kiddos make great progress on their pinewood derby cars. You are a kind and patient teacher. We spent the weekend in Atlanta, celebrating Christmas with the Holdens and Lizz’s birthday, playing musical instruments and having tea parties with Carmen, eating sushi at a restaurant that served plates via conveyor belt (which thrilled the boys) and, of course, holding our new niece/cousin, Freya. spotted these two trays on a table, Christmas day, on my parents’ porch Sophie with my dad, on the farm he grew up on. quick trip to my sister’s house 🥰 Happy New Year! Owen’s wish for 2019 is to be able to play Fortnite. James’s wish is to have shorter eyelashes. May all your New Year wishes come true. ❤️🥂 I’m jumping on the bandwagon with this collage but these 2018 pics chosen by an app represent all happy moments and a once-in-a-lifetime trip. I know it’s easy to look back with rose-colored glasses. 2018 was an exceptionally hard year, for reasons I’ve made public and kept private. But there was great joy, too. So my wish for 2019 is simple: More joy than sorrow. Both always exist. Some years, the balance is off — by a lot. Here’s to tipping the scale a bit, and a heart that is grateful for growth, and each memory shown here, as well as many other good ones, despite the hard days. We were all in grumpy moods when we left our mess of a house this evening but this place, one of my favorite Christmas traditions, worked its magic so much we made the woman you pay to park laugh as we left the lot belting out Rudolph (with the boys adding made-up lyrics involving anything that would make an 8-year-old boy laugh — yes, that and that and that). Note Andy’s glee in the last picture at being able to park right by the entrance and charge the car while we walked through all the lights. ❤️ Gebhart family Christmas, 2018 compared to 2011 ( O+J wreak havoc other ways now ❤️). It was so good to see everyone. Today was a good day. We own an espresso maker now (a generous gift from Jill after I became obsessed with the one we had in our villa in Italy) and so Andy made me a cappuccino Christmas morning and jokingly I asked him where the design on top was and this morning, while making my second cappuccino, he managed a heart, of which he was quite proud. (He also said at some point I need to learn how to use the machine on my own but for now I’m enjoying the gift and the live-in barista.) Merry Christmas! Dear Santa: hi it’s Owen a.k.a “the hyper one.” 🤣 I can offer very little in terms of life hacks but this is something I’ve done for years now and it seems to work well. Every few years we buy a HUGE roll of brown kraft paper. We use it to wrap gifts, decorating with nice fabric ribbon and baubles. I save all the ribbon and baubles we use on the gifts for immediate family to reuse next year. So typically all I buy each Christmas is a few new spoils of ribbon and a handful of baubles to replace those used on gifts outside our immediate family. And then the brown paper is used all year long - to cover the dining room table when doing art projects or carving pumpkins, to wrap mailed packages, to protect surfaces when painting etc. Now, back to wrapping because there are very other few things in life I do well (time management being one of them). Andy’s sister, Lizz, just made me an aunt all over again! I’ve been thinking all day about how there’s a bit of Marty in her, now here, on earth, how it’s all cyclical. And worth it. Welcome to this beautiful world, Freya Iris Holden. Gosh I can’t wait to hold you. buckeyes! “Imagine, kids. We’re on a farm. It’s snowing. Trees as far as you can see. There’s a little barn that sells homemade ornaments and wreaths, and they give you hot chocolate and cookies while nice people dressed as elves help you tie up your tree.” Next year! Bright side: Tree cost $18. Andy said we should wait this long every year. (We all politely disagreed.) These two are exhausting, in all the best and, sometimes, not-so-best ways ❤️
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    The Love in Trying

    The View from Up High

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    Changing Love

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