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I’m not quite sure why seven feels so huge. We spent the day going out to eat, to get our nails done, to the movies – and are finishing it with a night out at her favorite restaurant. Piper is seven. If you’ve never met her, she’s hilarious. She has a huge sense of humor […]

April 25, 2019

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I’ve never been so great at taking care of myself. Don’t get me wrong – I tend to do kind of what I want to do, but sometimes that means that I end up in a place I don’t want to be. I might gain weight, I might be tired, I might overextend myself. The […]

January 28, 2019

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Whenever a new year begins, I try to think of a practical New Years Resolution.  Nothing too crazy.  Do I want to lose 40 pounds?  Totally. I’m doing things to work on that, like going to CycleBar almost every day (it’s become a bit of an obsession- seriously, you should come with me!). Am I […]

January 3, 2019

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Wrenny Penny is in school full-time.  Now that Chris has a new job (yay for Christopher and his new job!), it’s even tougher to work from home with a kid, so Wren is in school.  Wren isn’t the kid that she used to be: she needs a lot more time and attention now that she’s […]

September 1, 2018

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It’s not easy to do things for yourself.  In life in general, but certainly in business.  It’s easy to say that you get to have control over things, but the downside is that you have SUCH control that you can’t let go of it.  Let me give you an example: I am AWFUL at my […]

July 29, 2018

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I was having a great talk with a potential client today about why I started the company, what I stand for, and I realized that I’d forgotten my roots.  It’s tough, because, as business owners, we get caught up in the “business” side.  We get caught up in gaining more clients, making more money, being […]

July 18, 2018

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