tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361106689926911012024-02-21T00:46:29.203-05:00Remembering ChaosBalancing life as a working mommy, wife and pinterest addictStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.comBlogger513125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-33121862539145191682018-01-29T11:09:00.002-05:002018-01-29T11:09:44.988-05:00TKOAs in Technical Knock Out.<br />
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I wish I could say that I was referring to my to-do list. Or goals. Or something positive.<br />
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But unfortunately, I am referring to me and Littlest Miss. We were both knocked out this past week by the lovely Flu B. Whoever said this strain isn't as bad as Flu A (Little Miss had this over Christmas) was clearly wrong as Littlest Miss and I are just now even starting to function, much less be healthy.<br />
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The only good thing about Flu B. This:<br />
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Cuddles. Lots and lots of cuddles. Even with her bestie Wrigley:</div>
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So many that a certain someone did not want to go to school today (don't worry baby girl. Mama didn't want to go to work today).<br />
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But hopefully this week is much healthier, happier and productive than last week.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-77835720708264012772018-01-16T10:39:00.002-05:002018-01-16T10:39:45.872-05:00Missions being AccomplishedSometime in December, I started reading this book.<br />
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But there is one catch -- Chapter 1 essentially requires you to purge your house behind the notion that stuff impedes simplicity. Well, given the craziness of December, the book has been collecting dust while the "to-do" of purge has been recycled on each and every "to-do" list.<br />
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Thankfully, since the New Year, I've somehow found the drive and motivation to tackle this monstrous task. I still have some cabinets and closets (namely my own) to tackle, but I can definitely say that I've made progress.<br />
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And even with work still to go, I am starting to feel the benefit that it brings to you life and mindset. Less physical things has definitely equated to less stress. More simplicity. More time. More happiness. More memories<br />
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Such is evident by this past weekend. Normally, Sundays are a stressful day of racing to church, running to get errands done and just preparing for the week. But this weekend, we did church Sunday. With less things in the house, there was less to put away. Which meant more time for things like this:<br />
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A fort made out of curtains.<br />
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Complete with books, movies and cushions.<br />
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So comfy that the Husband fell asleep in the tent.<br />
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Isn't this what life should be about? (Even if it was a one-time thing as the tent caused one of the curtain rods to detach from the wall thereby being banned by mom).<br />
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Here's hoping I can finish the purging in the next few weeks so I can finally move on to Chapter 2.</div>
Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-73982506806870029802018-01-15T15:38:00.000-05:002018-01-15T15:38:45.904-05:00Wish me luck<span style="color: #000032;">Unless you live under a rock, I'm guessing you've at least heard about the infamous Instant Pot. Goodness knows my social media feeds are blowing up with various posts all discussing the magic of this kitchen appliance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: navy;">And let's be honest. There are only so many posts this girl can see until her interest is peeked.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000018;">So I did what any other girl would do (or maybe frugal girl) and I dug through my cabinets, listed a bunch of items that we hadn't used in years on facebook buy/sell/trade sites, sold said items, and then purchased an Instant Pot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000036;">As I am writing it, I've yet to use it. But fingers crossed it works because two of this weeks meals are cooked in it. Fingers crossed that I am not going hungry those nights.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000084;">I'll definitely document my experience - as if it works like everyone says it will - it should simplify life! Faster dinners, less cooking pots/pans/utensils, less prep (I mean supposedly you can cook frozen meat and goodness knows there have been many a days where I've had to pull an audible because I left the meat in the freezer before leaving for work), but in the meantime, here is our Week # 2 menu. </span><br />
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Brats/Hot Dogs with Sweet Potato Tots and Broccoli<br />
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<span style="color: #000019;">My goal this year is to get a solid, 4 week rotation. Complete with shopping lists. And to just rotate that week by week. But we'll see if that actually comes to fruition.</span><br />
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As discussed in my previous post, my word of the year is simplicity. In all facets of life. And one of the reasons for that is to make more time for what's important -- one of the key things being able to spend more quality time with those who are important to me. <br />
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So as part of my "simplicity" goals for the year, is to carve out one-on-one time with both littles. Just a little mommy and me time. Its good for me. It's good for them. And it's even more heartwarming when little sister insists on buying a donut for sissie. (hence why there is a full, uneaten donut currently sitting in my house).<br />
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So far we are two for two for donut brekkies. <br />
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Happy Friday. Hope you have a great (and simple) weekend doing what matters!<br />
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I am not big on resolutions. Don't ask me why, but something about them doesn't necessarily work.<br />
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However, given that we just rang in the new year (hello 2018) it seems like I should be setting some kind of goal or mission for the year. And I've tried to come up with something, but the only thing that comes to mind is this one word:<br />
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thus, my word for the year is just that: simplicity.<br />
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Simplicity in all aspects.<br />
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What exactly does that mean? I'm not sure. But I'm hoping that by embracing it it will lead me to more happiness, less stress, more time with friends and family, less worrying, etc.<br />
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So journey with me through out 2018 as I try to get away a bit from the chaos and focus on simplicity.<br />
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Finally feeling somewhat caught up. Somewhat back into a routine. It only took a handful of days to recover from vacation and a subsequent work training.</div>
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Don't worry. I am not complaining. Rather, I am wishing that we could go back. We had so much fun on vacation and more importantly, made a ton of memories.</div>
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As evidenced by my cameras (yes, cameras as I bought a point and shoot just before we left and took over 400 photos on that, PLUS all of the photos on my iPhone). So needless to say, its going to take a bit of time to capture this vacation.</div>
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One day at a time. And what a better day then Day 1 at Disneyland. Which was a TOTAL surprise. As in, the girls had no clue until we pulled up into the hotel parking lot. We may had let it go a bit longer, but for the life sized posters of all-things-Disney.</div>
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The best part about the surprise was that she's been asking to go for nearly a year. And has watched friend after friend go (including some of Littlest Miss's friends go) and really couldn't understand why our family had an arbitrary you-must-be-five rule (no clue where it even came from).</div>
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iPad entertainment on the flight. Thankfully, the headphones weren't too big of a struggle!</div>
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One of our first rides. The every popular merry-go round!</div>
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Then it was off to get our first signature. Although, we unknowingly, may have waited the longest for Tinkerbell's signature!</div>
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Or so I tell myself. Especially given that Texas weather cannot decide whether to be spring or fall and my allergies are running rampant and yet another weekend has come and gone. Sad, as I really do love weekends. And although we didn't have any "huge" plans this weekend, we surely crammed a lot in.<br />
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Starting on Friday. When the Husband "guilted" me into picking the girls up early as I was trying to get in my second run in eighteen months (no, seriously, check my Nike app and I've run less than 5 times since my last half marathon in October 2015). However, given that it was hot AND humid, I was happy to cut it short.<br />
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And then it was Sunday. And our last play of the year (we got the girls season tickets to the Children's Theater for Christmas). The last show was The Little Mermaid and it was so, so, so good. As in, it blew the other shows out of the water. We are guessing that Disney has strict quality control provisions but who knows.</div>
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To me these things are still a bug and thus, gross. Similar to looking for oysters with my Aunt, I am all about the hunt, but I will not pick them up and may scream like a little girl if my Littles try to get me to hold one. However, the girls are a completely different story.</div>
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Little Miss has always loved them -- so much so that she's been known to call them "magical" amongst other things. Thus, its only fitting that Littlest Miss is following in her footsteps. Heck, Littlest Miss found a rollie pollie at school the other day, carried it in her hand with her long enough to bring it home and then was reduced to tears when she dropped it and it disappeared (either it was hidden in the dark wood, or more likely, Wrigs ate it thinking it was food from her plate that she dropped)</div>
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See how happy she is. Amazingly the Rangers hit 4 home runs while we were there, so we got to witness this reaction 4 times. Heart-melting happiness.</div>
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View from our seats. Can't complain especially since they were compliments of the Husbands work. And have to love seeing the AT&T logo everywhere we go!</div>
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About a month ago, Auntie Barb flew into town for one of her two annual visits (so super cool by the way that she comes to see us twice a year!) and like always we had a blast. We crammed a lot of activities into the three days that she was here.</div>
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So here's a quick recap -- based solely on the pictures from my phone, which sadly aren't a lot as Auntie Barb loves to take pictures, so I readily hand over that responsibility to her. The best part about it...when she gets home she prints out the pictures and sends us the best ones! Such a great treat especially in this electronic driven world!</div>
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Pre-shrunk Art</div>
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After finally changing out of our PJ's, we actually headed north to the Texas Tulip Farm. Y'all this place was amazing...even though it was the last weekend that they were open. Basically, its a huge former-ranch that just has rows and rows of you-pick-them-tulips. The girls had a blast and I was in heaven being surrounded by tulips. My only tip would be to go earlier in the season as the pickable worthy tulips were slightly slim picking.</div>
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This may have been their favorite part...muddy puddles. In true Peppa fashion, the girls definitely jumped in them. several times.</div>
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After tulip picking it was off to see Beauty and the Beast (so good!). Even the girls loved it. So much so that Belle has overthrown Aerial as the favorite princess in our house. Thankfully, because I knew the story, we snuck out to get popcorn during the "war" at the end and avoided some of the scarier parts. </div>
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Typical Saturday morning of gymnastics and donuts followed by the annual Blue Bonnet pictures. If you are in Texas in the spring, its a must-do-Texas tradition. The only glitch this year was that someone had told Little Miss that snakes like to hide in the flowers so she wasn't too terribly keen on sitting in the flowers for her pictures. </div>
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Speaking of grilling, we made <a href="http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/red-wine-bbq-chicken">this chicken</a> -- which I found while flipping through a magazine earlier that day. So, so, so good. I may just have to make it again this weekend! </div>
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We wrapped up the trip with a yummy dinner at Del Frisco's Grille followed by popsicles at Steel City Pops.<br>
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Such a great weekend! Auntie Barbara visits are always some of our favorites!<br>
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We kicked off the weekend celebration Saturday night by decorating some eggs -- and trying two new "techniques" that I found on Pinterest -- koolaid eggs and shaving cream eggs. </div>
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The girls had a blast -- although I am not sure I'd recommend the shaving cream eggs. They were a lot (and I mean A LOT) messier than I anticipated (I was convinced that despite wearing the gloves the girls hands were going to be stained for days!) and didn't turn out nearly as pretty as those on Pinterest.</div>
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Thank goodness for the Target Dollar Section -- the girls got a lot of gardening stuff (gloves, hat, shovels, and plants), a new bug net and bug box, a water bottle, a book, a new swimsuit, bubbles, some peeps and a Lindt chocolate bunny. And clearly they were pretty excited about their loot...</div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-50769333938240047012017-04-16T07:00:00.000-04:002017-04-16T07:00:29.089-04:00Happy EasterHappy Easter!<br />
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Hopefully, you get to spend the day with friends and family, but no matter where you are or who you with, hopefully you are celebrating!<br />
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-13167133692758466622017-04-14T12:32:00.001-04:002017-04-14T12:32:20.676-04:00Five on Fridays: Recent FindsSocial media seems to be everywhere now a days. I mean, seriously, you are reading my blog that's really just about our family :)<br />
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But for real, whether its the latest instagram account, blog, podcast, twitter account, you name it, it's everywhere. And sometimes finding the gems can be difficult, especially when time (and sometimes patience) is limited.<br />
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So not that I am an expert or anything, but I thought for this week's Five on Friday, I'd summarize some of my recent social media gems:<br />
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1. <a href="http://modishmel.com/"><strong><em>Modish Mel</em></strong></a><br />
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So this blog is brand new. As in just kicked off this week. And to say I've been looking forward to it is an understatement. <br />
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See Melissa is my neighbor and not only is she a super sweet, down-to-earth momma of two, but has been teasing us with amazing instagram photos for probably two months now. <br />
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Looking for fashion tips, workout tips, mommy tips from a real person, please check her out!<br />
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And Mel, can you please give me a crash course in photography?!?!?<br />
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2. <a href="http://motherlucker.com/"><strong><em>Motherlucker</em></strong></a><br />
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I stumbled on this blog completely randomly as I (or I should say Little Miss and Littlest Miss) am member of Rockets of Awesome and every once and awhile, I actually open the emails that they send me. <br />
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This weeks email was titled "A genius idea that makes your nightly routine FUN." Bed time SUCKS in our house. Seriously, but this is another post. And even though I don't recall what the genius idea was, I did open the email and actually clicked on the link. And whatever I clicked on (or after multiple clicks, as I seriously cannot remember), I found this blog.<br />
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3. <a href="http://www.happyhourpodcast.org/"><strong><em>The Happy Hour with Shannon and Dee</em></strong></a><br />
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This was one of the first podcasts I've ever listened to (well this or # 4). See until recently, I had no clue about podcasts. Never had listened to one. Never had any intention of listening to one. So I really don't know what happened.<br />
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But one day, I was looking at a post in one of my many facebook page groups and someone mentioned the Happy Hour podcast. Something stirred inside of me. So I googled. And found two. I wasn't sure which it was so I listened to both...and loved them both...<br />
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This podcast is all about living an intentional life. Amen.<br />
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Each podcast has some nugget of truth in it that just resonates with me. I don't know exactly what it is about this podcast, but I seriously cannot wait for a new one to be released each week. On days that I get to listen to Shannon and Dee on my way home, I am just happy. <br />
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<strong><em>4. </em></strong><a href="http://jamieivey.com/category/podcast-2"><strong><em>The Happy Hour</em></strong></a> <br />
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This one is just fun. I've followed Sherry and John for years, mainly on their blog and may have been a bit sad when they decided to slow down the blog posting in favor of other priorities (aka family, books, life). I even have both of their books on display in my bookcase in the living room. <br />
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So it's really cool to listen to their weekly podcasts. Really makes you feel like you know them, right?<br />
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But no, for real, it's great to get their advice/thoughts on the latest housing and design trends (this last week they discussed open floor plans and whether they were done -- which really made me want to close off the second story of our living room) as well as to learn about their favorite products that they are currently digging.<br />
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They post a new podcast maybe once a week and each lasts about a half hour. So again, great filler for those sometimes long drives home.<br />
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And that's it. I am sure there is more social media I am digging now, but in light of Five on Friday's I'll stop with that...<br />
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...but what about you, anything I should check out?<br />
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Back to trying to catch up on what we've been up to lately.<br />
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It seems as though we always have visitors at our house, which we love, but truly its really nice to get away sometimes. Especially to a place that they make your bed for you every morning and your kids can't crawl into bed with you.<br />
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Thankfully, Papa came down back in February for almost two weeks so the Husband and I could get a much needed parents only vacay.<br />
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Like most of these trips, we headed out to California. And of course used the Husband's miles to book first class tickets and enjoyed comfy chairs, a decent breakfast, and the coordinating drinks.<br />
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Until we got to our destination for the first two nights -- Carmel by the Sea. Once we checked in, we grabbed a glass (or two) of wine at the hotel happy hour, played a bit of backgammon (after re-learning how to play) and then headed out for dinner. As it was already dark before we left and we both were a bit clueless about our whereabouts, we got about a block away before deciding to circle back and just eat at the restaurant attached to our hotel.<br />
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We woke up fairly early the next morning, grabbed a quick breakfast in the lobby and then headed out for a hike. We had originally hopped to head to some of the many trails in Carmel by the Sea, but sadly because of all the recent rain, we learned that many of them were closed. Thus, we took the opportunity to wander around the town and along the coast, and even though it wasn't what we'd initially planned, we weren't disappointed.<br />
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We made it to the end (let's be honest, other than the muddy puddles it was fairly easy) and would have stayed a bit longer, but for as the Husband was about to climb down the rocks and get a picture closer to the water, he realized that he lost his phone somewhere along the trail. So we quickly headed back and luckily found it pretty close to where we began and only inches from a muddy puddle.</div>
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Although given that Littlest Miss is starting to understand a calendar and the ordering of events it seems as though it should have come an gone already as she's been saying "Easter's coming" for at least four weeks. Yes, its the truth, but still.<br />
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But regardless of Littlest Miss's declarations, we hadn't done much to prep or celebrate Easter (except for attending Ash Wednesday services), until now.<br />
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I think we did enough Easter activities in one weekend to make up for the last thirty something days.<br />
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First, we kicked off the weekend with one of our favorite dinners: make your own pizza. I love it because (a) the girls eat it and (b) it keeps them occupied and the rest of my house clean for the duration of dinner prep.<br />
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After dinner, we headed to a neighbors house for a bit before hitting the sheets early for our busier than normal Saturday: gymnastics, Eggstravaganza at our Church, and soccer. All before one.<br />
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The Eggstravaganza is one of my favorite events -- toddler friendly egg hunts, games, story time, inflatables and a petting zoo. Seriously, heaven for my littles.<br />
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Then it was off to soccer where we once again tried to get Little Miss to run. and score a goal. <br />
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Once again, we weren't successful -- but at least Littlest Miss and I had fun on the sidelines and Little Miss at least smiled for her "team" picture [it's in quotes because they legit take individual pictures of all the girls and then photo shop them into the team picture]<br />
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After some Bar Method and grocery shopping, it was off to a neighbors for dinner. Sadly, I didn't get very many pictures of the girls -- they were too busy playing, while the parents were too busy talking -- but nevertheless we had a blast. So much so that the decorate your own ice cream for desert was not the highlight of the night<br />
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Then the Easter festivities continued Sunday with Palm Sunday Church Services, a stop at the "Petting Zoo" afterwards, and then a neighborhood Egg Hunt followed by dinner with friends.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">They really wanted to pet the donkey. But apparently the donkey was being a bit of an A!S after being ridden on through the church as part of the Palm Sunday service, so this is as close as they man in-charge of the donkey would let them get.</span></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-50440954203135240472017-04-05T22:39:00.001-04:002017-04-05T22:39:40.129-04:00Cup of TeaTo say that I am NOT a morning person is a lie. If anything, I am the complete opposite. A true night owl.<br />
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I can stay up until the wee hours of the night easily. But getting up in the morning is a completely different story.<br />
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Most days, I'd be lucky if I got up before the girls (despite numerous alarms). Not only did this lead to frantic mornings, but it lead to stressful days as I'd be lucky to get into the office before 9. And although my current job doesn't require a ton of overtime, getting in that late definitely doesn't mean that you are getting out early. Which meant:<br />
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Leaving the office around 5:15</div>
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Sitting in traffic and praying that I made it to daycare by 6:30</div>
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Racing home in an attempt to feed and bath the girls and get them to bed at a reasonable time (and the lack of routine and mommy time throughout the day meant they weren't asleep until at least 9 every night)</div>
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And then I'd still have to workout, prep for the next day, clean, squeeze in my 20 minutes of me time (this, its legit y'all) and then go to bed for the night.</div>
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It was truly exhausting. And made our already busy life seem that much busier.</div>
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But did you catch that...I said <b><i><u>was</u></i></b>. See after having to get my Aunt to the airport at 6:30 AM for a 7:40 AM flight two Mondays ago, something clicked. And knock on wood, I've been at the office by 7:00 AM every since. Which means that I don't get to see the girls unless they happen to wake up before I go, but it does make the rest of the day run so much smoother.</div>
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Especially on days like today. </div>
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Where I left at 4:00 PM, and despite heavier than normal traffic, was home by 5:00 PM. I changed into yoga pants and headed to the girls school where we proceeded to head to their favorite park for nearly an hour. Think they had fun?</div>
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And now, its 9:30 PM and they've been asleep for over an hour. Not only did I get to spend quality time with my littles, but I have actual me time. To do whatever I need to do for me. And that is something that makes my heart happy.</div>
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So is getting up at 5:30 my cup of tea? Not really. But it's so, so, so worth it.</div>
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Once again, I am behind. Like seriously behind. But because we've actually had several house guests (aka lots of fun and activities) I don't want to just skip those weekends and pretend that they didn't happen.<br />
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Thus, I figure I'll do a handful of posts to capture everything that I missed: Life in Rewind.<br />
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First up, our recent weekend with Loli and Pop!<br />
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Sadly, I didn't get any pictures from their first night in town -- but we had fun watching March Madness, eating dinner (and playing) at Central Market and then just hanging out. After a much needed night of sleep (shorted one at that), we were off for a typically busy Saturday <br />
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Donuts. Gymnastics. and Soccer. Duh.<br />
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Although I think Little Miss had more fun blowing dandelions after the game than playing (I mean standing) soccer. <br />
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Side note, we've tried everything to get her to run (even bribing her with Toys R Us trips) and nothing seems to work. Thus, this season may be the last of our soccer weekends for the foreseeable future. Any suggestions on how to get her to enjoy it would be greatly appreciated!</div>
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Then it was time to head home to grab a quick bite of lunch, shower and head out for the afternoon. On the agenda: a trip to the Fort Worth Water Gardens and then to Casa Manana to see The Little Red Ridinghood. </div>
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The girls LOVED the water garden. Especially the "Mountain" and the "Bowl" When they saw the "Mountain" they literally took off running. I laughed, followed close behind and tried to snap some iPhone pics. As soon as the husband realized what they were doing, he freaked and bounded up after them. They all survived (clearly) and made it to the top!</div>
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Then it was off to the "Bowl" (unlike the Mountain I don't think this is really its name). And the girls were obsessed with it. The Husband and Littlest Miss made it down about 3/4 of the way and then turned back, whereas Little Miss insisted that we make it to the bottom and go all the way around. So we did. And not gonna lie, this momma was a bit scary. Not only because you are surrounded by water but also by crowds and crowds of people. </div>
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However, Little Miss and I did it. And in honesty, I was so proud of how brave she was! Sadly, Littlest Miss at this time started to cry because now she really wanted to do it -- but given that we had to get to the play and more people kept coming, she didn't get her wish. Next time for sure!</div>
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For anyone in the DFW area, we highly recommend Casa Manana. For the girls Christmas gift this year, we got the family season tickets and have enjoyed each show so much that we plan on buying them again next year. They truly do an amazing job on each show -- and they are the perfect length for littles, entertaining for all ages, and even serve adult beverages on the chance your child is misbehaving and you need a liquid relaxer :)</div>
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The girls actually fell asleep on the car ride home (at 6:45 without dinner nonetheless) and slept until Sunday morning. Thus, the adults grabbed some take out and relaxed at the house. </div>
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We had initially tried to go Saturday evening after the play, but after being told it was a 3 hour (yes, 3 hours y'all) wait, we sadly got back in the car and head home. However, it looked like a fun place that would entertain my children and serve the adults yummy food. Thus, we tried again. And let's just say we were all (even the girls) happy with that decision.</div>
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Great food, sand and toys for the girls, live music, and a beautiful Sunday day. What more could you ask for. My one "compliant" is that for being as kid-friendly as a venue as they were, there wasn't a kids meal and wasn't really anything that my kids would remotely eat. Thankfully though they had their Sunday brunch and our waiter let me snag a biscuit for each girl and some berries. Little did they know that my girl could probably eat $25 worth of berries </div>
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Girls hanging with Loli</div>
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Just some of our yummy food</div>
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Yes. It might sound a little bit strange, but seriously, as of late its made me so happy.<br />
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See, for the last six months or so, I've been trying to cut out grains in an attempt to lose the gut. Well, that clearly didn't happen as I'd still sneak them in (and my sneak them in I mean over indulge). However, about two weeks ago, I finally caved and signed up for Isagenix and their 30 day program in an attempt to lose the gut before San Diego...<br />
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...and so far, I a really loving the convenience of Isagenix. But when two of your three meals of the day are shakes (and please don't think I am complaining, as I actually love the taste and how great I feel after), the third meal really needs to be good.<br />
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And that's were cauliflower comes in.<br />
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In the form of Cauliflower Paella.<br />
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Sunday night dinner for the win.<br />
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I made a few minor tweaks (most notably omitting the chicken, subbing mussels for oysters, and cooking in about 25 minutes not the supposed hour) and it was SO good. So good in fact, I am thinking about eating the leftovers, which I normally won't touch with a ten foot pole, for dinner tonight.<br />
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And while we are talking about the amazing-ness of cauliflower, here are a couple other "go-to" recipes using this star ingredient. My only tip is to cook the cauliflower a bit more than most of the recipes call for as in my opinion it makes the cauliflower a bit softer, more rice like and more flavorful.<br />
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-85864011607258573462017-03-08T16:45:00.000-05:002017-03-08T16:45:01.446-05:00Weekend RecappingY'all. I totally meant to post about our weekend on Monday. I went so far as to upload my awful iPhone pictures into the Blogger app. I just never got around to writing. <br />
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Not Monday.<br />
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Not Tuesday.<br />
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And not this morning. Even now, I should be working. But something in my brain is nagging me. Nagging me to write. Nagging me to share. Nagging me to blog what we've been up-to, which of course is lots. Nothing earth shattering (I promise) but lots of stuff going on in life. Hopefully, I'll be able to do a better job of sneaking away a few minutes here or there to post (something). Even if it's not a lot of words.<br />
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So that's what I am going to do today. Post the pictures I previously uploaded.<br />
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All of them are from a birthday party that we went to this past weekend at the Sea Life Aquarium. In the past, I would have said thanks but no thanks as Little Miss hadn't mentioned this particular friend a ton of times. However, when we got home from our parents-weekend-away, she begged me to go. I guess she's officially at the age whereby they "get" birthday parties and want to go.<br />
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So I RSVP'ed yes. Even though I quickly realized that our morning of back-to-back-to-back gymnastics, birthday party, and soccer game was going to be next to impossible.<br />
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And it was. Thankfully, the Husband agreed that we could skip soccer (under the strict agreement that it was just this once), which was so worth it as not only did the girls learn all about fishies, but they had a great time bonding with their friends.<br />
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Other than the party, we actually had a low key weekend -- a goodbye dinner with Papa, dinner with the family we went to Florida with the past summer, church, errands and hanging out together.<br />
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-60676101819877922902017-02-20T18:03:00.004-05:002017-02-20T18:19:49.398-05:00Weekend Recap<br>
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Before I recap this weekend, let me just apologize. Y'all these pictures are awful. For the longest time either I (a) took really good iPhone photos or (b) just thought they were really good. But as I post these pictures and try to summarize our weekend, I realize just how bad these are. Maybe this will finally be my wake up call to pull out the DLSR camera...hmmm...we'll see about that...<br>
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...it's just so big. <br>
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...and let's be honest, I am lazy and its not at all convenient. But at the same time I would like better quality photos. Any quick fixes out there?<br>
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Regardless, I digress. <br>
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Back to the topic at hand. Our weekend. <br>
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It was busy, busy, busy. As in I took over 18,000 steps yesterday either cleaning or chasing around the girls. As in nonstop and I need a day to recover. But never the less fun. So here are just some of the things that kept us on the move<br>
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We were up and at them early. Saturday morning gymnastics followed by the first soccer game of the year. At least Little Miss (and apparently Littlest Miss) were excited to go. Or maybe it was the excitement that they stole a Valentine's Day treat. The husband was kind enough to give Mommy a much needed break so I can't let you how well she played, but either way, they were all smiles both before and after the game.<br>
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After soccer, we quickly piled into the car for a playdate with Little Miss's sweet friend from school Not sure how she had the energy, but needless to say they bounced and played for the better part of the afternoon only stopping to take photo booth pictures and chow down on some dip-and-dots.<br>
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We finished off the evening with a quick run to Target -- why, I am not entirely sure -- but in pure Target fashion we left with much more than we planned including Playdoh and several baskets for the laundry room. (More on that later, but out of no where I had sudden motivation to finally finish that room!) -- dinner and some Disney shows.<br>
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After the typical Sunday morning activities (i.e. church and grocery shopping), the Husband headed back to work while the girls and I went to a birthday party. After a few frustrating minutes of them refusing to join in the fun, they finally did. Needless to say, they had a blast doing various "sports" activities and burned off even more energy.<br>
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And then it was time to wrap up the day and get ready for the week -- which this week entailed more than normal as Papa is coming to town for the week! So this coupled with the house cleaner coming today and my sudden urge to finally put away the Christmas sheets, meant a few extra chores for this Momma, but that's A-Okay...especially since its a couple of things checked off the to-do list and hopefully a fun few weeks with our visitor!<br>
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Seriously, my house is full of flowers right now due to a combination of Trader Joe's flowers that seriously do not die, my successful attempt of growing tulip and Valentine's Day.</div>
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But regardless, it was a great week celebrating love:<br />
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Aside from the dance, we officially kicked off celebrating with Parent's Night Out at Trulucks. Talk about yummy...good wine, oysters, crab...who wouldn't be happy. Thankfully, we won a $75 gift which helped take the sting out of the bill this time as we'll definitely be back...<br />
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Other than that, we really laid low until the actual day. Sadly, I had a super busy day at work so I couldn't sneak away for the girls Valentine's Day parties at their schools, but based on the pictures that school sends out, it looks like they had a blast making treat bags, decorating cookies, and exchanging Valentines with their friends.<br />
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We concluded Valentine's Day with a heart shape pizza from Papa Johns and a rare Tuesday night dinner of all four of us sitting at the table at the same time! </div>
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Admittedly, we had been overscheduled. Running around from one activity to another. Plans too many nights. Too many commitments and not enough downtime.<br />
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So having said that, my iPhone camera isn't nearly as full as it may have been in the past, but that's okay. It's been a great few weeks and I can only hope that the rest of the year is as good if not better. But for all those curious, here are just a few of the things we've done to fill the minutes of 2017.<br />
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Being silly, goofy and enjoying doing a whole lot of nothing. This picture pretty much sums up our year so far. (Including the Dallas weather -- it was 86 degree's last Sunday!)</div>
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-52235594396532474342017-02-14T13:34:00.000-05:002017-02-14T13:34:08.928-05:00Valentines Day CardsWhere oh where did January go? And how the heck is it February already...<br />
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As mentioned last week, we already checked off one of our traditions with the Daddy Daughter dance. However, another tradition is the actual Valentines Day cards that the girls bring to school for their sweet friends.<br />
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Not once, in the all the years (I think its four years as I was still on maternity leave for her first Valentine's Day) that Little Miss has brought Valentines Day cards to school has she brought the simple, store bought cards that we gave out as kids.<br />
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Nope, rather, I succumbed to the pressures of raising kids in Pinterest-Driven-World have made homemade Valentines Day cards, often scrambling to get them done the night before, or even the morning of. As stressful and unnecessary as this is/was, at least they turned out super cute, right?<br />
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Sadly, I can't find the ones I actually made, but use your imagination and just pretend that they looked as good as the originals:<br />
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And in all honesty, I thought this year would be much of the same. I even started "pinning" ideas a few months ago and had largely narrowed down my choices to these:<br />
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And then left it up to the girls to decide which to give their friends. After much thought and deliberation, Little Miss choose Princesses and Superheros (shocking) and Littlest Miss choose (i.e. was left with) Ponies and Dinosaurs. Now all Mommy has to do is assemble them...which given my love of procrastination may be easier said and done. At least it didn't involve late night runs to the FedEx Kinkos store.<br />
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It did however require me to stay up WAY past my bedtime trying to tie on 64 different toys to 64 little cards. Good thing Target pre-cut the baker's twine and pre-punched the cards. Oh and thank goodness for washi tape. Any loosely tied toys were easily secured.<br />
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845572864473759564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836110668992691101.post-8863950921114535142017-02-03T12:15:00.002-05:002017-02-03T12:15:34.288-05:00Daddy's Little Princesses<br />
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