Claire’s birthday is today – it sort of landed on a crazy week. Lots of other events and commitments, and it’s the beginning of spring break, so a lot of her friends are out of town. She had a really fun birthday party last year, and this year she was cool with getting to do a little outing with her best friend and her best cousin in lieu of a party.

Claire’s girlie to the bone and begs (BEGS!) to go to the nail salon all the time.

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Years ago, I used to really go all-out with our holiday cards. I’d spend hours and hours on the things, hand-crafting every part. But that was before my life became virtually one giant creative outlet, and in recent years, when I have actually managed to get cards out, they’ve been pretty generic. I had made it a goal to do something manageable AND special this year.

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Greetings from a cave of moving boxes! We are slowly but surely packing up the brownstone. The truck arrives bright and early tomorrow morning and our flight leaves in the evening. The count down has begun. I’m feeling good.

A couple weeks ago though I was having major, major second thoughts about our move. I thought about all the growing I have done over the past almost decade while we’ve lived away from all our family.

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I’ve been really into classical architecture books lately (this one is completely fascinating). We’re going to be knocking out and rebuilding a few interior walls of the new house that will need some special moulding. I’ve been doing as much research as I can before we have to make final decisions there. So when I was invited to come down to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia with my sister Heather and sister-in-law Kenzi, I jumped at the chance to have a girls weekends and to tour the beautiful, historically restored town and soak up all the classical and colonial architecture (and I’ll be honest – the spa and the amazing food were a draw, too) :)

The past couple of weeks have been SO intense with work and the upcoming move, it was really amazing to hop in the car, get out of the city and have some kid-free time with these ladies I love so much.

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