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12/18: Starting the day with homemade granola.

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12/17: Grateful to drive over to my aunt and uncle’s house for Christmas, knowing 50+ people on my Dad’s side of the family are inside… and that my 94 year old grandpa dressed up as Santa for his great grandkids. I am simultaneously lucky and undeserving of so much goodness. 🤍

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12/16: Grateful to be able to see my husband’s family every other weekend in Wisconsin while his sister goes through chemo. Also, who doesn’t love a baby sink bath?!

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This morning’s reflection. 🔥 😮‍💨

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

inventor of coffee: what if bean soup made me nervous

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@smowens15 This is fantastic, but was your champagne hand empty? 🤔

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12/15: Getting to see the tenderness my beautiful Mom feels for my daughter.

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12/14: Grateful for a morning spent at a Polish (another part of mine and my daughter’s heritage) market and deli in my old Minneapolis neighborhood with my sister-in-law, mom, one of my nephews, two of my nieces, and my daughter.

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Grateful to celebrate part of my daughter’s full heritage by taking part in some of the St Lucia traditions.

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12/12: Making St Lucia buns (lussekatter) with my sister-in-law, two nieces, and my daughter at our house in the afternoon, and then having an impromptu almost-whole-family-hang at her house in the evening.

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12/11: That my parents are such active and involved grandparents.

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12/10: Grateful to be able to incorporate some Scandinavian parenting into our girl’s life, like napping outside in the fresh, winter air.

(Disclaimer:I took this picture and then immediately went back to her in the stroller, and she was appropriately dressed for the weather.)

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12/9: My 94 year old grandpa is healthy and gets to know my daughter/his great granddaughter.

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12/8: Finding a pocket of time to wrap Christmas presents with my husband - just the two of us. 🤍

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12/7: Desert sunrises. 😮‍💨

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12/6: Hiking with my little sidekick in the warm sunshine of the desert.

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12/5: Morning light making everything feel like a still life painting.

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12/4: The simple beauty of terra cotta.

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12/3: Grateful our daughter is such a great traveler. She spent an entire 2.5 hour flight taking a snooze and peacefully playing with a plastic water bottle instead of any of her toys.

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(Catching up)

12/2: Grateful for my husband who indulged me in driving way out to a Christmas tree farm to cut our own tree and wasn’t bothered by me taking approximately 1,000,000 photos.