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Born in Kenya to missionary parents • An introvert that feels extroverted responsibilities • Small business owner turned marketing director • Amateur flower gardener and bee keeper • Animal lover with a bias for bulldogs • Old home renovator • Married to my best decision • Mother to my greatest accomplishment • hellotiffanyking@gmail.com

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  • 26 days into a new decade and I’m turning 37. Eek! I can’t believe it! - The last 10 years of my life were full of joy, heartache and growth. I created four businesses from scratch and three of those businesses truly succeeded. They even brought me press from around the world and that made me feel alive and so capable (intermittently through fear, and deep-seeded insecurities). Unfortunately, towards the end of the decade, I had lost sight of myself. I was working to provide for my family (as most of us do) but I was miserable. The last job I quit did hurt me, but it was the best thing I could have done for myself. - That job had become the same ideas, and the same delivery of them every day FOR YEARS, there was nothing interesting or even creative about it anymore, but you get in these ruts and you don’t know how to get out of them because you need them financially, but after I quit, I realized I could have less again. - Andrew and I started out with nothing but a shite load of college debt, and we built our lives all on our own. Once we hit our 30s, we were finally feeling comfortable enough to not worry as much. I loved the way that felt, and I didn’t want to go back to when we were living from paycheck to paycheck and counting every single grocery item, especially with TWO kids! That’s how I base how we’re doing in life, can I go to the grocery and buy pretty freely, or do I need to track every single item, ha! - But here we are - except now I am thinking as I did before. I feel in love with possibility again, and that might not turn into anything, I still need to raise two kids and do all the adult things…but to feel that way again going into a new decade is exactly where I want to be. This pic/video clip was taken 14 years ago…I miss that girl and how she dreamed, so I hope to reacquaint myself with her again as I move forward older and not at all wiser 😉🥳 #37thbirthday #happybirthdaytome #timeflies
  • 9 days into this new decade and he’s turning 38 😱🥳 And though we joke that he has the same body type as the grinch - he’s my grinch, and there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t feel immensely grateful for him and all that he brings to my life and to our girls life...I’d say the dogs life, but he’s kind of a turd there, and I think the dogs would agree 😜 - Andrew is not a weekend dad, or a weekend partner, he’s an every day, every challenge kind of dad/partner. He’s a calming force to my anxious mind, and the kind of person that says things like “their loss” when people suck. I have never said that in my life. Instead, I over analyze every single detail and then blame myself. - He has never been unkind to me, and because of that, I have learned to temper my temper. He forgets a lot of things (and loses his wallet weekly) but he is sincere with his apologies, and truly believes he’ll do better next time 😄bless him. But it’s that lack of self-awareness that has brought so much joy to my life, so I won’t fault him when it also has a negative side. - I seriously could not do any of this without him, especially raising our girls, bravo to all those moms that deserve gold stars for doing it all, but I’ll take my bronze and keep leaning on him. I love you dummy. 😘#happybirthday #dadanddaughter #fatherofdaughters #lovehim #matchingpajamas #38years #3months
  • Yesterday we finally got some more snow and Wallis was so excited, she loves the snow and while outside kept saying, “I’m waiting for the snow to kiss my tongue” 👅❄️😄🤷‍♀️ - I was thinking about how much time I have with this sweet boo until she goes to kindergarten and was relieved that it was still 1.5 yrs away. With a new baby time feels blurred between fast, slow and what day is it again? I worry so much that I’m missing quality time with Wallis. - Since Loris arrived, Wallis has struggled to play on her own, instead she opts to follow me around all day, her time interrupted with baby stuff and adult chores...and though I carve out chunks of the day to just be with her...some how I feel like I’m failing to balance this intense love and frailty that is motherhood. - I wish I could give myself a break because my body has never ached so much from the exhaustion of it all, of the doing plus worrying. I remember a friend of mine said when they welcomed their second child, she spent that year mostly in tears...and now I get it. Your love split, and yet life still requires all the same things but less time to do them in...it’s madness. I’m rambling now...but I guess I just wanted to say, that everything is wonderful, and I’m so damn grateful but I’m also a mangled tragic mess who’s postpartum hair loss has reached maximum capacity. C’est la vie ❤️ #wednesdayswithwallis #honestmotherhood #4yearsold #snowday
  • Oh lawd you guys, this has been such a miserable year...I feel like I need smelling salts just to get through this list 😂 let’s see we.... 1. Found out we were having a baby girl, yay! Had Hyperemesis Gavidarum entire 9 months, boo! 2. Forced to sell our deeply loved home 3. Moved in with my parents for 5 months (which was a bad experience, see also #6) 4. Due to a bad market we were unable to buy or move to the area we wanted 5. Moved twice in 5 months 6. My parents decided to get a divorce after 43 years of marriage 7. Olive had major surgery due to undetected bladder stones 8. Pierre not wanting to be outdone had 2 surgeries due to a freak middle-ear infection caused by inhaling his food 9. After a miserable pregnancy, I had a very traumatic long birth where Loris was born blue and revived twice, and all the doctor said (a man I had never met) as he was leaving, “well your butt is going to hurt for awhile” 10. Loris, though a magical love, had horrific colic, reflux, and lots of blood in her stool that lead us on a path of insanity and finally to a GI Specialist diagnosis of Severe Allergic Colitis. 11. Wallis had to get stitches for the first time 12. I quit my job after 10 years due to a very hurtful experience. Basically, it was one for the books and I am so happy it’s over. I know that life is never easy, for any of us, and my hardships might not look like yours but we all have them. Truthfully, in each of those experiences I listed, I could tell you how God provided, and maybe that’s the kind of list I should have made 😉 Happy New Year, wishing you all healing in 2020 and lots of fun, we need more fun! ❤️ #topnine2019 #best9of2019 #bye2019 #lookingforward #thisigrow
  • Oh Loris! On Sunday you’ll be 3 months! I can’t believe it! This has been the most insane, exhausting and heart wrenching 3 months...but we are getting there, finally! - You still spit up a ton, have bad reflux, barely sleep, and are on your specialized food for all those allergic colitis babies...but with each pound you gain, it gets better, and what kind of mom would I be if I didn’t meet you in the trenches so that I could celebrate your victories! And you are a victory my love ❤️ #ladyloris #3monthsold #byenewbornstage #lovesbathtime #cameramama #holdthemoments #ijustloveher
  • For Wallis’ 4th birthday I knew exactly what I wanted us to do, because 4 is special and I thought it deserved a special gift. - My grandpa made this dollhouse for my mom when she was small. And then my dad fixed it up for me when I was small. And now we’ve fixed it up for Wallis...and someday for Loris. - It makes me so happy as I never got to meet my grandfather, he died from a heart-attack a week before he was to meet me (I had recently been born) and my parents were still living in Africa, but had planned a visit to the States. My mom likes to tell me how he was talking about me on the day he passed as he couldn’t wait to meet me, and that has brought me great comfort over the years when I have felt sad about it all. I might have never gotten to know him, but I was on his heart and loved already. And now a reminder of his love for his family sits in my daughters room...❤️ (swipe to see before, it had some water damage) #wednesdayswithwallis #dollhouse #birthdaygift #happy4thbirthday #dollhouserenovation #dollhousereno #vintagedollhouse
  • Time keeps breaking my heart. Wallis turned 4 today and there are truly no words to describe how insanely creative and wonderful this child is. She catches my breath and keeps me on my toes. I have never known a love like this, and dearest Wallis as you tell me every single day, “you sow sparkles and words into my heart.” Thank you thank you thank you 💕🐷🎂(swipe to see all 4 bdays 😭) - P.s. Wallis woke up a few weeks ago and told me, “I want a vanilla cake with strawberry icing for my birthday” and thanks to @cookscountry I made her cake wish come true. 💪🍓🍓#wednesdayswithwallis #happybirthday #christmasbirthday #4yearsold #loveherso
  • Tomorrow she’ll be 4. The day moved so quickly that it didn’t even hit me until I was tucking her into bed that tonight was her last 3-year-old sleep 😭 I sobbed very very quietly, I am not about to wake that almost 4-year-old up, she’s nuts! 😉😭🥰🥰 #wednesdayswithwallis #slowdowntime #4inthemorning #christmasbaby #supergirl #almost4
  • Since Wallis’ birthday is Christmas - we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve...so Merry Christmas Eve (eve)! - It’s so fun having an almost 4 year old for Christmas, Wallis has been so excited this time around. She asked me several times today, “so not today, but the next day, there will be presents under the tree that I can open?” and I am pretty sure we’ve read “The night before Christmas” every evening for weeks! Can’t wait to see her face see this tree in the morning, and by morning I mean 4:30 am as Wallis has decided that’s a perfectly normal time to be awake 🤨❤️🌲🎅 #merrychristmas #merrychristmaseve #merrymerry #holidaydecor #homeloveholidays #christmastree
  • We still have quite a bit of work to finish in this house, and though the rooms are small and complicated...I like how it’s coming together. - However, I always get stumped by rugs...should I do one here? Round? Square? 🤷‍♀️ #homesweethome #homeloveholidays #housebeautiful #houseinterior #newoldhouse
  • What she lacks in a digestive system, reflux control, protein consumption, chill, and sleep...she makes up for in beauty. 😍😄🤪 Loris how’d you get so crazy? But we adore you all the same. Happy 10 weeks! 🤍 #ladyloris #10weeksold #holdthemoments #cameramama #loveher #katequinnorganics
  • Wallis asked for a pink Christmas tree in her room and we happily obliged 🌲💕 but this morning she requested a picture with Loris next to it and we happily cried, ha! 💔😭 These girls are the best dang thing and our lives are full and rich because of them. #wednesdayswithwallis #pinkchristmastree #ladyloris #sisters #9weeksold #almost4 #merry

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