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On the cusp of changing seasons, lives change alongside. Children quietly get older, day by day, until we, usually shocked, find them to be new people. Personalities grow, just as the inches. But the most pronounced change is often when we welcome a new baby into the family. When the conversations of five-year olds are now accompanied by the sounds of a newborn. When the school schedules are accompanied by infant schedules. When the dynamics of two children becomes the dynamics of three children. The love grows and the walls inside our homes swell with the new memories created. Just as the seasons welcome each other, the family does the same. Quickly and quietly.

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September: 10-on-10

The first of August began with mixed emotions, mostly because it meant in less than a month we'd be back to school. & now here we are, two weeks into school. With each year these kids get older, time slips faster & faster. While our summer days are documented to prove we did actually do something over the past three months, it feels like I only blinked. I don't mean to imply the days were easy, quiet, or calm. Mostly they felt like organized chaos. But even in the longest, loudest, craziest of them all, I'd take one-hundred more, starting now.

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100 Days of Summer, week 13

August 17th: checking on the potatoes

August 18th: a sudden surge of birds in windows has hit the neighborhood

August 19th: lunch on the deck, with live music

 August 20th: the first time she wrote her ABC's

August 21st: goodbye broken washing machine

August 22nd: hanging on to the last of the deck days

August 23rd: dental cleanings, checking off the to-do before school ist

100 Days of Summer, week 11

August 3rd: the adventure begins, with a 14-hour ferry ride

August 4th: straight off the ferry, & the boys' spotted seagull chicks

August 5th: first airstream adventure

August 6th: Sheep Mountain hike

August 7th: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, day one

August 8th: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, day two

August 9th: fishing off the Denali Highway