enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: motherhood
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Some of you may remember when I was taking a roll of film of a month of Ellerie. You can see all of these posts here. And here is a fun comparison post from a year of film photos. I took a roll in October 2015. And then Piper was born in early November. I…
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I remember when Ellerie was six months old I wrote somewhere (blog post? IG?) that we were reading to her more often and someone commented that they had been reading to their kiddo since the day they were born. Like a crazy person, who was in desperate need of a social media break, I felt…
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September 2014 October 2014 November 2014 December 2014 March 2015 April 2015 May 2015 June 2015 July 2015 August 2015 Last week, as I was prepping my August film post, I thought about all the photos I have taken of Ellerie in her crib this past year (turns out I only missed it two of…
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I took the photo above of a door at my local print shop. Here's a link to the artist! This week I had one of those days. Those days that come out of nowhere and have me questioning everything I'm doing. NO SERIOUSLY. WHAT AM I DOING? How am I trying to part-time this very…
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FRI-YAY! As mentioned last week, it was Camp Mama at our house with daycare closed. I realize how lucky I am to have a work schedule that's flexible and thanks to some prep work and emails at nap time (which has mysteriously dropped to 2 hours max?!??!), I spent the days on Ellerie's timezone and…
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photo of Ellerie by Tara Whitney The plus side of the second kiddo is that you're over all the "extras." There is a better understanding of needs vs. frills. I bought super bizarre things for Ellerie (like so many sets of pjs and then she slept in onesies and sleep sacks) but I also stupidly…
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Yep. This month wins. My baby became a little girl this month…on film. She's a two-year-old! With more spunk and personality than Paul and I combined. And she's somehow also the sweetest… …and most daring kiddo I have ever met. I've made no secret that the newborn phase and first year baby phase were not…
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I have been meaning to get a post like this together for ages. It's taken forever because the act of "documenting my days" leaves less time to actually "do the work" of my days. There is a huge difference between our daycare days (currently T/Th) and my mama days (currently MWF). This is what a…
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Sometimes (almost always) the simplest projects are my favorite ones. When I bought this frame for Ellerie’s Santa photos, I bought a second one thinking I’d “need” it for something. It sat in my garage for over a year. In February, as part of my “I must clean out every inch of this house” madness,…
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I have said this before but my transition into motherhood was bumpy. I was the first of my close friends to have a baby and my knowledge of what was coming was seriously lacking. (Prepare yourself for some brilliant insight…) Having one yourself is NOT the same as liking a filtered photo on Instagram of…
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