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My Life in Pictures

April 22, 2021 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

My Life in Pictures

Hey internet friends! I have been so MIA since February, so I thought it would be fun to do a mini photo-dump from the past few months to give you a quick update on life (not that a whole lot has changed πŸ™‚). But just to give you some insight into our life since February! Insight 1 πŸ‘†πŸ». Being outside. Since the weather has turned warm (THANK YOU LAWD), we have been outside as much as we possibly ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Parenting, Random Tagged With: boy mom, kids, life in pictures, life update, parenting, photo dump, random, stay at home mom, toddler mom, toddlers

April Chats!

May 5, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

April Chats - TheGarlicDiaries.com

Hello everyone! Happy May! Now that we've wrapped up April, I wanted to pop on and do my little monthly chat with you lovely people. I wish you could sit across from me and we could chat and catch up in person, preferably with a large glass of icy whipped coffee in front of us (have you seen the whipped coffee trend?? Have you tried it?? I like it, but it's SUPA rich). This has been such a ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Parenting, Random Tagged With: chats, life chats, quarantine, The Garlic Diaries, updates

February Chats

March 3, 2020 by Annie Chesson 3 Comments

Starting it off on the happiest, cutest note with this little babes πŸ‘†πŸΌπŸ˜ Happy end of February/beginning of March, everybody!! Woooohoooo this means spring and warm weather are almost here!!!!! **Violently shoves sweaters and pants into back of closet and pulls out shorts and t-shirts** I'm only mildly excited for some outside time. This has been a CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY month, people. Mostly it ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Random Tagged With: coffee date, extras, life chats, random, updates

November, December, January Chats (whoops)

February 10, 2020 by Annie Chesson 4 Comments

Woaaaahhhhh there, what happened November, December, January, and now about half of February?! The time flew by in a swirl of chaos that made my head spin just a leeeele bit. WHEW. Y'all - these holiday months be cray, right? I know January and February aren't holiday months, but they were also PACKED full of things for our us. Specifically the past four weeks - we have had crazy crazy craziness. ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Parenting, Random Tagged With: life, life updates, real life

October Chats

October 31, 2019 by Annie Chesson 3 Comments

October Chats! What's been going on this month - it's been full and busy and amazing. October is the best! TheGarlicDiaries.com

On a scale of 1-10, how pumped do the kids look in this picture? Trick question, the answer is 11. Y'all, it is giving me LIFE that I am getting my October Chats out on the actual last day of October. When am I ever that organized and on time like that anymore? LOL - never, but you're sweet if you gave me any positive mental credit there. October has been CRAZY! Honestly probably the ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Random Tagged With: chats, extras, halloween, life, life updates, real talk, The Garlic Diaries, updates

September Chats

September 30, 2019 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Excuse me, but how am I already doing this again? I feel like I JUST wrote August Chats like 4 minutes ago, and here we are at the end of September. Confused, please explain ASAP. This has actually been a BIG month for us - hence my lack of presence on the blog...whoops, my plan to plan ahead did not go as planned. Nahmean? Hopefully I can get back on track with that...starting with this post. ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Random Tagged With: babies, chiropractor, Fall, fall food, life, mom, momming, parenting, pediatric chiropractor

August Chats

September 3, 2019 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

August chats...but in the beginning of September? What day is it even? Life is cray and August went by faster than a shower with my 2 year old banging on the door. But a lot has happened this month! August has been big. Let's chat about it! What I've Loved Tailwind Pre-publishing: (precursor, this isn't even an affiliate link, I just love Tailwind enough to SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS.) ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Random Tagged With: babies, extras, life, life chats, life updates, random, sleep schedules, sleep training, toddlers

July Chats

July 30, 2019 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Chats? Let's chat about that. Hello, friends! I want to start doing something new on the blog. One thing I've had to realllllly work hard to find balance in is parenting while having a career in blogging. Because it's a work from home job and I'm also a stay at home mom, the two get muddled sometimes, and it can be really challenging to figure out how to do both well and not sacrifice one or ...

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Hello From Maternity Leave!

January 5, 2019 by Annie Chesson 4 Comments

Hello there, friends! I'm popping in for a quick check-in just to let you know what's been going on over here in our neck of the woods. We welcomed sweet baby Colton on November 21st after a crazy, craaaazy quick labor. I'll post a full birth story after I'm officially back from maternity leave, but let's just say I slid onto that epidural train by the skin of my teeth...I was minutes away from ...

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Rise Against Hunger

April 5, 2018 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

Approximately 842 million people suffer from hunger worldwide. 98% of those people suffering from hunger live in developing countries. About 9 million people die of hunger each year around the world. Malnutrition is the LEADING cause of death in children around the world. Approximately 3.1 million children die of hunger each year. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Random Tagged With: end hunger, end poverty, hungery, hungry, poverty, world hunger

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Annie Chesson
I am a passionate Christian, wife, cooking addict, and mom to the two sweetest boys in the world! Join me in my journey to create delicious, flavorful food. More About Me...

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