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Letters to Our Daughters | Summer is here!!!

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Dear Chloe- We survived the two weeks between the end of school and the first day of summer camp.  We survived on playdates, Curious George, wearing princess dresses, and grilling.  You are really enjoying your time at camp and I am enjoying my quiet mornings. Last year you and I were on our adventure to Sesame […]

Letters to Our Daughters | School is Over

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  Dearest Chloe- The other morning we sat in the bed and read Are You My Mother? for the umpteenth time.  It’s a special book for mommy as it is the first book I read on my own.  I beg and plead with you to be careful with this copy because it is MY book […]

Letters to Our Daughters | My one and only

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Dearest Chloe- You are a miracle and miracles rarely happen twice.  4 years ago this week was the scariest day of mommy’s life.  After a day of just feeling “off” I asked our family doctor what the difference was between RLP and Braxton Hicks contractions because I had felt dull pain in my lower belly […]

Letters to Our Daughters – Surviving Winter

Letter to Chloe March 2014 colie james photography 1

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Dear Chloe- I just feel like this year is moving so quickly.  Where did the last two and a half months go?  We are finally over the “plague” that took over our household in February.  The days I kept you home from preschool REALLY made me appreciate my quiet Tuesday/Thursday mornings.  I love preschool.  I […]

Letters to Our Daughters | L-O-V-E

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Baby girl- You are now three and a half years old.  I make jokes on Facebook about having a Threenager, but you are truly getting better.  You are still demanding pancakes multiple times a day and now you want George to come with you everywhere.  You are now cooking eggs right beside me in the […]

Letters to Our Daughters | One Year Later

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Dearest Chloe- This is the 12th letter for this project.  A little less than a year ago the first letter was about your first time bowling and there have been so many more firsts since then.  Your first time at preschool, our first time apart, the first time you got completely dressed by yourself… so […]

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