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About Me

I am a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a cousin, a niece, a scientist, an "auntie", a home cook, and a friend. 


I have been shaped by where I have lived, the places I have traveled, and by the people I have known. 


I spent the first two decades of my life in North Dakota and the third in Minneapolis. When faced with where to spend the next 10, I decided to take a gamble and move across the country to Boston. 


To say I hit the jackpot is an understatement. I met my future husband a few months after arriving; Zoe Lee and Silas Maxwell were born on October 5th, 2009; our one year wedding anniversary was a week later. 


I started this blog at the beginning of my pregnancy to stay in touch with my family who are back in the midwest, and my friends who are scattered all over the world.


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