keeping kenley.: in with the old... in with the new

Friday, February 17, 2012

in with the old... in with the new

Just wanted to do a quick post and wish the Highlanders good luck this season. Baseball season makes for a crazy time in the Mills household but we do love it.

Gavins family is making their way down hwy 5 as we speak to make it here for the first game of the double header vs BYU. So excited to have them here for the weekend!

I also have been meaning to share this picture....

This was probably my favorite image that came out of our shoot with Caitlin. This dress that Kenley is wearing started as a plain white dress from Old Navy that my mom embelished with little pink knots on the top and sewed an old tea towel of my great-grandmothers on the front to look like an apron. We saw a similar dress in a boutique in St. Helena but had to try and re-create it ourselves for about one fifteenth of the cost! I love using old things to create new ones... and the fact that Kenley is wearing an heirloom from her GREAT great grandmother!

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"Keeping Kenley" .... not in the sense that we chose parenting(thats old news) but instead the idea of being able to her remember, 'keep' her little when she isn't anymore.

Mostly, gathered here are our thoughts and memories from our adventure in Riverside, originally written for our friends and family back home when we missed them most.

Now that we are back home I find myself here, writing about the little things and hope for a time to keep our friends down south updated instead...

Kenley has given me inspiration to write again.

The first post on this blog was right before our big move to southern California (September 2010) with our two month old Kenley. I planned on keeping our close friends and family updated on our happenings in our new city... hundreds of miles from home. I know that some of our happiest memories as a family were there as well our biggest struggles. I cant wait to look back on it all.

For now I am a full time student at Sonoma State studying Kinesiology. I love fitness. I love school. so, it works.

I do part time medical transcription from home. The flexibilty and hours cant be beat.... I work in my sweats.

I blog for/with/ and because I am a young mom... discovering all that requires and curious how other young families do it all. Most of the blogs I follow are young moms that I know (and dont know) .... and in case you were wondering it still seems like none of us have it all figured out yet.

In SoCal I worked at a "crunchy" baby and children's boutique in Redlands called Kissui -(Japanese for: pure & natural) where I fell in love with attached parenting and became a hippy when it comes to raising my babe. I dig cloth diapers, baby wearing, breast feeding, co-sleeping and hit the lotto when Kenley got into the (just-as-hippy) Children's School on SSU's campus.

Kenley is an adventurous little soul and thrives beyond our wildest dreams now that she is in preschool. She amazes us every day with her creativity, intellegence and passion.

thanks for stopping by :)

jess