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Winter’s Lessons

A recent Facebook status of mine reads: If there is any single lesson I hope to bring into the New Year that I learned during our Christmas break is that I need to slow down and savor my children, my...

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New Blog for Jessica Monte Photography

I am so excited!  Yesterday I designed and published a new blog for my photography business!  What this means is that I will continue to share my personal stories and photographs here at Days of You...

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Power to Prosper

Change is the theme this spring.  As I mentioned in our last post, we are moving to a new house later this summer.  And because I’m a planner, this means I’m eagerly trying to get all of our ducks in a...

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Thanksgiving Portraits

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!  We just returned home from a week long visit to Connecticut to see both of our families.  As part of our vacation, I volunteered to take photos of the...

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Christmas 2012

                    It was a full and happy holiday season this year for the Montes.  We spent our first Christmas in our new house doing all the things we’d done in years past: we decorated the front...

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New Years Day 2013

New years’ day was wonderful.  All of us were recovering from a cold and flu of some sort but we managed to make it outside to Legacy Park.  I followed all of you around with my camera and my new lens,...

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What’s up? It’s summer!

  As always I am very much behind in blogging.  To be honest, the only reason I’m able to sit down today to write is because I’m having a sick day and am spending the day in bed with my laptop, Parks...

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7 Back-to-School Strategies to Help You Stress Less and Simplify Your Life

In my recent blog posts, I think I’ve alluded to the fact that my work schedule has been cutting over too much into my family life.  This article penned by Renee Trudeau, author of Nurturing the Soul...

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Rainy Fall Mornings and a Happy New Puppy

  It’s Thursday morning and raining outside.  The kids are safely at school.  Toby is curled up in the corner chair of the family room snoozing away.  And I am sitting at my old farmhouse table...

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Weekend in Shenandoah Valley

The first weekend of November we booked a cabin-ish room at the Big Meadows Lodge at Shenandoah National Park.  We loaded up the car Friday afternoon and made a two hour drive west.  The further we...

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Five Tips to Encourage Family Volunteering

In my last couple of posts, I’ve shared that I am thinking more about how to raise children that are good human beings who appreciate all that they have.  And in turn, I’ve admitted that I hope that my...

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Permission Granted: 5 Ways to Find Rest this Holiday

This article landed in my inbox from the team that works for Renee Trudeau and her blog about nurturing the family soul.  I love it!  I hope you do too!...

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Sydney’s Home!

This week we had a surprise visit from our nanny Sydney, who just came home for spring break from her college in South Carolina.   It was a complete surprise for the kids, as Sydney asked us to promise...

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