17 Years & Counting

Happy Anniversary to us!  We’ve been reminiscing our wedding day 17 years ago today – how is that possible?  I still feel like I am at least in my twenties and here I find myself approaching 40.
We’ve come a long way, baby.

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Postpartum: Choosing Joy

I know that my blog is called “The Art of Choosing Joy.”  I have taught a Big Picture Scrapbooking workshop with the same title.  But my month-long bout with postpartum has given me a reason to pause and really think about that phrase “choosing joy.”
In dealing with all of our challenges with regard to Jason’s [...]

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Download Day – It’s Back

First of all, Happy Father’s Day to Jason – the first-time dad at our house!  He’s a natural in every sense of the word and Coleman is a lucky little munchkin to have him as his father (including his ability to think up crazy stunts and tricks involving children – like only a dad can [...]

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Book Review

I am a book junkie.  I have an account on Goodreads.com.  I am organized by nature.  But although I love the idea of it,  I have had a hard time keeping track of my books on Goodreads.  I entered a whole slew of them in the beginning but haven’t been interested in keeping track after [...]

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Connections

Times have changed.  We live in a world where information is at our fingertips – literally.  We can Google our neighbors, our office coworkers or even the last person we met at a party and often find at least something about them on the internet.  Sometimes I feel like that is a bad thing – [...]

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There’s Hope

Things are looking up at the Hall house.  This week was MUCH better than the last few weeks – I feel almost “normal.”  Still not pushing it or expecting too much from myself – just taking it easy and doing what I want to do each day.   I think that has helped a lot.
Thanks so [...]

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Here’s the Deal

I’m sure you have been wondering why I have been strangely silent over the last few weeks.  Well, here’s the deal.  I am having postpartum issues.  True story.  A few weeks ago I had the flu and never seemed to really recover from it.  Instead, I felt like I was spiraling downward rapidly.
In all of [...]

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