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Let’s go Celtics! Clap, Clap. Clap-clap-clap!

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Just a handful of minutes before one of us pitched a huge “I wanted to win” fit.

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The days of snuggling this little one to sleep will soon enough be over. Until then, I’m enjoying it.

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Guest photographer today: Papa

Peter took this incredible photo of Catherine. I took a few mediocre photos today and, quite honestly, none of them were worth putting here. I would like to think that this is the picture I would have taken, had I come across this scene myself. She finally has no trouble falling asleep thanks to her brand new memory foam mattress that I got her from leesa.com. I honestly wish I would have bought myself one too because it is so comfy. Whenever I  lay her down to sleep, I want to just stay there with her and sleep.

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We had the wonderful pleasure of attending the grand opening of the Serendipity Cafe in Maynard, Ma today.

{Above, please see Esme totally enjoying my “Appley Laura” smoothie.}

My dear, dear childhood friend Laura, and her husband Johnny, are taking their dreams by the horn and have taken their bakery business out of their home kitchen and into downtown Maynard. I couldn’t be more proud of them or more happy for them!

{If you want to read more about their venture, here’s a great article.}

We loved our food and drink, the cafe was beautiful and I imagine we might be needing to find more and more reasons to find ourselves ‘in the neighborhood’ in the future!

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We ventured downtown tonight, on this first day post-Halloween. Dinner at Howling Wolf, dessert at Orange Leaf. Surprisingly warm and pleasant night for a walk!

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Reasons I loved Esme’s Halloween:

*She totally got into putting her costumes together.

*She was awesomely brave, even at the scariest houses.

*She had such enthusiasm handing out candy and helping with our Trunk or Treat game.

*She skipped from house to house with joy.

Reasons I loved Catherine’s Halloween:

*She committed to the cowboy boots, despite them being a)too big, b)high heeled and c)uncomfortable.

*She popped into our room when she heard the fireworks and really appreciated them (and appreciated that she got to watch them while Esme was sleeping).

*She absolutely owned her emotions while trick or treating- House too scary? No big deal, she just stayed on the sidewalk and didn’t mind foregoing the candy.

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On their way to, what turned out to be, a super awesome, homeschool Halloween party.

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One awesome perk of having your parents living downstairs? Reliving halloween creating fun from your childhood with your Dad and his mad cardboard cutting skills.

Raise your hand if you remember my “Front Door” costume!

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The kids got a welcome surprise during our HS group’s park day today. The local fire department showed up to run a new engine through its paces. To quote our Esme, “This is just so awesome!”