WANTED: FAMILY DOG

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It’s Hunting Season in the Claussen household. No, we aren’t trekking through the forest and fields tracking deer, pheasant, or turkey.  And no, you won’t find us sitting patiently in our hunting blinds waiting for ducks. You may, however,...
Someone once told me that one of the best things about having a child was how it makes you fall in love with your spouse all over again.  Just like everything else you are told before your first child...

What’s Your Number?

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What’s Your Number? Is it 1? 2? 4? 9? Or even 20? My number is two:   that’s how many kiddos we decided to bring into our home sweet home. It wasn’t an easy decision, this simple little number. My husband, the baby with two older siblings, only...

The Traveling Diaries

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We made it! We survived the first long road trip with a baby! There were some ups and downs, but in general it was definitely a success. As my last post mentioned, we drove from Iowa City to Lincoln, spent...

Bittersweet Emotions

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Julia has been crawling backwards since she was about six months. It was two months of her rocking on all fours and inching the wrong direction. She’d get stuck in all sorts of places – underneath the couch, under...

The Travel Bug

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How many of you are traveling this Memorial Day holiday weekend? To a neighbor’s house for a (soggy) barbeque?  Maybe to nearby cities to see those friends and family members that you don’t see as often?  Or perhaps you...

What ARE We thinking?

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The time comes in every parent’s life that he/she decides to do the unthinkable…take a road trip with a baby!  Whether it is long or short, there is always at least a little sense of dread that goes along...
My husband, Alex, and I got engaged in April of 2010. He had received his acceptance letter into the College of Law at Iowa just two days prior to popping the question. After the excitement of our engagement and...

Take a Puzzle Day

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When I was a kid, there was a guy at our church named Poggy.  Yes, Poggy.  He was quite the character.  I will never forget one day after church he was talking to my mom, and he started telling...
Our family recently decided to sponsor a child through Compassion International.  While my husband was at a concert, he picked up a packet for a little 4 year-old boy from Bolivia named Christhian. Isn’t he adorable? The next day I...

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Guide to Indoor Play Places

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Winters in Iowa are known to be long and cold and spring tends to be rainy and windy but that doesn’t mean your family...

Summer Camp Guide 2024

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