olive

A Springtime Flower Party

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It feels a tad weird to be writing about Springtime and flowers while currently traveling through winter weather, but Spring has already sprouted in our...

a little tea party

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Olive turned six on Wednesday, and I still can hardly believe it. To celebrate in a small and simple way, we invited a few of...

18/52

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“a weekly portrait of my children in 2014” liam //Although you’re intuitive, articulate, and well-read, you love to play. I love this mixture in you...

F O U R!

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The other night at dinner, you sat by my side — not necessarily a coveted position these days because you tend to use your neighbor...

Olive, age 2

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I must ask this question a dozen times daily, and here’s the snapshots to show why. Why silence is not necessarily a good thing in...

a colorful commendation

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Dear Blythe and Olive: As your crayons, markers, and paints, we wanted to commend you for the passionate and endless ways you have used us....

{this moment}: Olive’s first haircut

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  {this moment}: A Friday ritual. A single photo capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to...

happy first birthday olive.

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Calling you delightful, Olive, seems like a drastic understatement or cliche (sadly, words limit us at times to describe the full measure of a person),...

almost four weeks later.

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Blythe woke me up the other night at some point between Olive’s 10pm and 2am feeding asking if I could put on her pink cowboy boots...

happy birthday olive kay douglass.

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olive kay douglass march 4, 2009 10:52 am 6 lbs  2 0z       18 1/2 in Last summer we found out that you, Olive, would be...