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Seven Christmases ago, I spent December 22 both making a scrapbook for a boy I had only dated for six months and worrying that a scrapbook was an inappropriate gift for that early in a relationship. We exchanged gifts on December 23rd, not knowing then that we were unofficially picking a day that would always […]

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Seven Christmases.

I’ve always wanted to do a Christmas card, and this year was going to be my year. We were going to get cute family pictures taken, I was going to order the prettiest foiled cards and send them out to everyone with little updates about our year…because really, if there was every a year that […]

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A Virtual Christmas Card: Merry Christmas From The Jacobs Family.

GUYS. We made it to the week of Christmas! Yesterday we went Christmas shopping for Jack for the first time ever. It was my first time in a toy store at Christmastime since the years when the gifts I wanted actually came from a toy store. No matter how old you are, there’s just something […]

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It’s the Merriest Week of All, Live it Well.

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