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| Vrksasana - Tree Pose With bébés - lots of them! DIY - with your flair and forté! |
Permission to have the best time ever momming and house-making (in a world often convincing us to outsource our divine gifts). 🎁
Infinite body, mind, and spirit benefits (and abundant monetary savings) to be had by executing your family life, yourself, your way!
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| Parivrtta Upavistha Konasana - Revolved Seated Angle Pose |
(This) Summertime it is all about the Family time - and I am here for it.
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| Neck Stretch |
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| Ardha Dhanurasana - Half Bow Pose 🏹 and chiiiiill Iced coffee, chocolate milk bottles and popsicles at our convenience. 🧋🍼🍦 |
What shall we do today Kampers? Life is good when you are your own Kounselor; No forms, no packing lists, no weather updates, no transportation issues, no allergies, no early mornings, no problemo.
At 🍒 Kamp Kirschenbaum 🍒 there are no rules (except be polite!)
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| Kamper Ash is a careful builder. |
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| Kamper Lélé refinishes furniture. |
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| Crochet Kampers Opal, Pansy and Ocean. |
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| Homemaker-Asana |
Anytime I am away from the home on other business for the day, I am always relieved to return to the fold; for family-life is where my passions, priorities and talents lay.
But, of course, I wouldn’t know about home-making's high ranking if I didn’t flee in the first place 😉 …
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| Sirsasana ~ Headstand variation To safeguard my neck, I typically headstand with tripod arms. |
When I was growing up, the day school ended my family and I flew (fled?) to the French Riviera and returned to the USA only after the school supplies had - much to my dismay - run out at the American stores. Summer was not filled with planned activities or camps or playdates but with open-ended European road trips and unhurried, unstructured, seemingly endless days chez nous en Provence. 🪻🪻🪻
With my four petites being ages 3-13, it is likely not prudent to emulate this relaxed, improvisational, détendue, and highly unAmerican protocol, but I am going to give it a shot. I will let you know how it goes...
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| Sirsasana - Headstand variation Loving red-white-blue (plus pink). |
In preparation - or was it the opposite? - for this Summer I said sayonara to my week-daily sunrise yoga, I eschewed all camps for the kiddos, we bought only one-way airplane tickets, and I haven’t sought out a single sitter. Naturally, I am becoming petrified and beginning to panic as school winds its way down (4 kids - 10 year spread - 75 straight days!), but this weekend is going so well I think it’s going to be the best Summer yet!!! 💙🤍❤️ ✌️🤞😎😎😎😎😎🤞✌️❤️🤍💙
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| Zesty, starry, shiny, peppery, salty, coppery, green, energetic, soft, pink, calm, blue... Mom Vibes - to infinity and beyond!!! |
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| Not pictured: Stormy Day Dinner was chicken tortilla soup (from a dear school-mom-friend's Boulder CO soup company) with plenty of Astrid's home-baked vanilla pound cake (new fave) with fresh CO cow whipped cream. |
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| What is a girl to do? |
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| Happy-go-lucky, carefree and a bit daffy while hard-working in my home, active at our school, engaged in the neighborhood, out-and-about in my community… |
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| Virabhadrasana II - Warrior 2 |
__ Candles on my cake.
We have closed ‘Birthday Season’ (until next October) in the Kirschenbaum home. A huge EXHALE for a mother who decorates and celebrates (6 human stars and a sparkle pup) in fantastical excess. 💐
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| Hand to Heart and bébé belly. Butterfly Legs Seated on Bolster. |
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| Prasarita Padottanasana III - Wide Legged Forward Fold C |
What was the cherry (peak) and what was the pit (valley) of your day? We use this as our analogy since our last name is “Kirschenbaum”, German for Cherry Tree. 🍒
When our family has been apart for the day’s working hours conquering the world, we dine together at sunset while comparing notes, but when the weekend has been seemingly endless hours of “mom”, “MOM”, “dad”, “DAD”, why not serve the children separately?
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Constructive Rest Pose Knees together, feet apart. Deeply relaxing - like a self hug. 💞 |
Just as your food should be nourishing, your rest should be deliberate. 🫛
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| Green Goddess Dressing, Flower Blossom Cookies, Nut Stuffed Bacon Wrapped Dates, Mamachi’s Tomato sauce has carrots and cream, Homemade Food makes your fridge beautiful. |
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| Garnish with your garden flowers (lilac here). |
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| Berries, dairy, crystal. 🍓🐮💎 |
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| Germans liebe potato salad. |
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| Chocolate pots all around. |
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| Greek salad is pretty in pink and green. |
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| Just add granola: substantial Greek yogurt and berry dessert to prevent late night snacking. |
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Knee to Nose from Three Legged Dog Weight forward, shoulders over wrists, for the ‘badass’ version. Wear leopard-like patterns and large gems. |
After dropping the girls off at violin lessons this afternoon, I took the boys to the new North Boulder Library and parked right in front of an apartment that we lived in for two years. It has been exactly a decade since the one toddler days we spent there, but, as I did then, I still have a three year old. Patrick’s comportment at the coffee shop and playground nearby was so similar to Goldie’s ten years back that I came home exhausted from the surreal experience. I was badass then, and I’m badass now, but different…
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| Virabhadrasana I - Warrior One The color of the heart is green. |
I am stuck on the Stuff Merry-Go-Round. Packing for a family of six makes me lose my mind a little. I have beneficially and appropriately kept and corralled many, many seasons and sizes of duds and doo-dads, but this again? How many times can I unbox, unfold, sort, fold, wash, dry, sort, fold, pack, unpack, sort, shakeout, dust off, examine, sort, fold, keep, pass along, repeat …
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| Laghu Vajrasana - Little Thunderbolt Pose Yes, mom’s light shines on us all. 🥰 |
A few hours of uninterrupted work time daily for yourself and then they, whoever, can have the rest!
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| Skandasana - Skiiers Lunge |
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Virabhadrasana II - Warrior 2 Pose Surya Namaskar - Sun Salutation |
To each era its own rhythm and organization: I may rise at 5am regularly now, but I was not astir so early when I frequently awoke throughout the night with bébés - or in my twenties with other motives and goals!
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| Utthita Parsva Konasana - Extended Side Angle Pose You are right - it is not easy. |
