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    December 9, 2017

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    December 7, 2017

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    November 22, 2016

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  • Garden Farewell, 2018

    January 5, 2019

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    May 24, 2017

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    January 25, 2017

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    April 23, 2019

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    January 2, 2019

  • November 18, Wallis (35 months)

    November 25, 2018

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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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April 18, (40 Months)

April 23, 2019

Garden Farewell, 2018

January 5, 2019

December 18, Wallis 3 Years Old!

January 2, 2019

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  • Thank you to everyone for all of your lovely comments on my pregnancy announcement/gender reveal. - It’s hard for me to imagine Wallis even being this small, she was only 4 weeks old! I have to admit I’m pretty anxious about having another baby. 😬🙃 #rainbowbaby #wednesdayswithwallis #pregnancy
  • 🗣SOUND ON🗣 Somewhere over the rainbow indeed, as this rainbow baby has already taught me to believe in good things again. 🌈 I was not only heartbroken over our miscarriage, but I was also absolutely terrified to try for a second child, due to the horrific experience of having a natural miscarriage at 13 weeks and needing a blood transfusion....that combination of pain and fear became so consuming, that it took me nearly 2 yrs to want to try again, and even then, I panicked after 1 unprotected try (which I know is TMI) but God had other plans, and that try brought life again. I still can’t believe it, and I would be mortified if that sounded like any type of bragging, for it was meant as letting fear go and courage in, can sometimes bring the most unexpected joy. 🌈 I thought my Hyperemesis Gravidarum was bad with Wallis, but this baby was like, “nah girl” and I started vomiting 24/7 at 5 weeks...so it’s been an absolute miserable pregnancy with loads of anxiety BUT we’ve come this far, and I don’t want to fear the loss anymore because I’m just too damn GRATEFUL, so here we go...expected at the very end of September, a sister for Wallis. 💞💞💞💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 #wednesdayswithwallis #genderreveal #itsagirl #hyperemesisgravidarum #rainbowbaby #3yearsold
  • Ok last Easter spam but these just make me smile! - I have to admit, I struggle with the way my dad “gardens” - we do not look at gardening in the same way. Where I read countless articles on soil, my father says, “these rocks will do” 🤪 And when nothing grows that well, he blames every single possible thing but himself...or that horrific rocky soil. It’s painful for me, but he is as his garden, impenetrable. 😉🙄 #wednesdayswithwallis #livingwithmyparents #candidchildhood #easterfun #childhoodunplugged #threeyearsold
  • You’ll have to forgive me for a little Easter spam, but I haven’t taken any pics since we moved that I’m happy to have some of my wee boo again! 🐣 - Wallis’ dad accidentally threw away one of her art projects and she was so upset about it. But she made another one and before nap said, “now dada please do not throw my art away again, but if you do, please make it again before I wake, so I won’t know it happened.” 😂 Getting glimpses into her world of processing is truly a delight - I have no idea where this stuff comes from but she was v.serious. 💙 #wednesdayswithwallis #threeyearsold
  • I can remember distinctively as a child how sad it made me to grow older. My friends were eager to be older, even from a very young age...but not me. I wanted to keep playing, keep imagining that my swing was a horse, a wood pile a mountain, and my world famous mud-pies needed 6 bright red berries not 4. - I had a large lop-eared bunny named Skippy that I felt wanted to see the world, so I put a leash on her and she walked with me around the neighborhood. People called me “rabbit girl” and I never once questioned the oddity of such a sight. - There was a vacant old house in one of the neighborhoods I lived and I use to play on the porch of it with my neighbor friends pretending it was our home...but one day I was told it was dumb and they had moved on...but I hadn’t. The same happened with my toys, with my dress-up clothes, with my tape recorder that I taped made up happenings in the neighborhood on...and then of course went Halloween. I sobbed the night I got my period - all my girlfriends had called each other boasting...but I was sick over it, feeling what had been was now fading so quickly I couldn’t catch my breath. - So you can imagine the joy I feel in seeing Wallis live and pretend and whisper goodnight to her piggy. Childhood is so very rushed now...even this obsession towards princesses, Disney movies, and huge ice cream cones ...as though there are not years ahead for all of that, but as a 3 year old, not yet. I want Wallis to know only the simple things of nature and life. Huge puddles and curly haired dogs. Bruised knees and dancing from made up songs. Everything else can wait - because while there is joy in sharing all the things at once, there is frailty in the moving on long before they’re ready. At least to me, as long as she’ll have this time, I’ll be here in it with her. ♥️ #wednesdayswithwallis #childhoodunplugged #letthemplay #threeyearsold #candidchildhood
  • “The workmen not here” Wallis was so disappointed there were no builders to watch, as she loves that so. - Okay here’s the gist....since we had to sell our house due to a huge gross factory moving practically next door, we reevaluated and decided/needed to move closer to my husband’s job. For the last 8 years he’s been commuting 2.5 hours daily so we could live in our lovely old home, but he didn’t want to do that anymore, and I totally understood. - Problem is, I was still planning for another old house and a decent amount of property for me to create another flower garden. Problem problem is, we can’t remotely afford it now that we have to move close to where my husband works, it’s an INSANELY expensive area. - So our next chapter is my least favorite and I’ve cried a lot about it, which is pathetic since it’s over a house...but sometimes I’m pathetic. Needless to say we are moving into a NEW home (one of those cookie cutter ones that they build hundreds of and squeeze together) with a postage size property 😱😱😱😩😩😩🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭 SO...I plan to wallpaper the crap out of it while sobbing into the handfuls of soil I’ll get to work with 👍🏼 - I just keep telling myself, someday there will be an old house again and a large flower garden but for now, you’ll have to make do out of doo doo. Wallis would love that joke. 🥴🥴🥴🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ #nextchapter #whatwillbewillbe #3yearsold #wednesdayswithwallis #atleastAndrewisexcited P.s. If I sound ungrateful for a place to LIVE please cut me some slack, I’m going through something. 👍🏼
  • Well we’ve made it to my parents. Closing day was the most brutal, I think I cried all day. My husband up until that point had been determined that this was all for the best but once he got to the closing and met the buyer, who was very kind about our old house and the work we had done to do it, even he started crying. - It’s been a rough few days. Wallis has started having night terrors, something she never had before. She tells us every day several times a day (even though she adores her grandparents) that she wants to go back to her house. When we took her to the area that we are thinking of buying in, hoping it might bring her some connection she kindly said, “I love it, but can we move my house here?” - It’s funny how many people told me how resilient kids are, but I think I’d argue they’ve not been given the option to express their emotions. I grew up moving my entire life and my parents never checked in to see how I felt about it - I was just told and expected to do, there wasn’t room for how sad it made me so I didn’t talk about it, but we have allowed that space for Wallis, and she has been showing us her heart. Yes, she will eventually regain her ground, but for now we’re giving her lots of cuddles and conversations about this big change in her life. - I feel lost really - I wish I could just close my eyes and be through this time altogether, it’s been too painful, and it’s moved so slow, almost as though time is happy to suspend us here while pushing fast forward on everything else. Better things better things, but for now it’s 3 am night terrors to tend to, and me unable to fall back to sleep. ❤️ #wednesdayswithwallis #3yearsold
  • It has been so difficult for me to wrap my head around that in a few short weeks we will no longer live here. I keep trying to make myself distance my heart, face reality but I can’t seem to do it. - Our first home...we lost one of dogs to cancer here, we brought our first baby home here, and we poured ourselves into the cracks and success of this space and grew from it all, and around it all that to be not this house and not this life is an ending, rather than some new adventurous beginning. We are truly mourning this loss. - I know the reasons behind us selling have been kind of mysterious on here, but they are due to local issues, not personal, which makes it even harder to accept. This was not our choice, and as others have learned, so little is these days when it comes to government and greed. - We have searched and searched for a place to move, but have found nothing. We will be moving in with my parents until we do. We are so blessed that is even an option, as I think we’ll do some healing there and maybe even discover the clarity that is so lacking now through our blurred eyes and burned hopes. - A home is a privilege, and we have lived here as such...only memories now. 💔 #goodbyeoldthing #wewillmissyoualways
  • This was an outtake from our annual Christmas card but I really love it. Andrew turns 37 today 😱 I remember when my older brother turned 37 and I felt relief it wasn’t Andrew, ha! Too late...time is a jerk — but after being married 12 years to this goon, I can also say, time has been good to us. - We have experienced so many highs and lows together and sometimes all that living causes cracks and discontent but nothing heals a bad day like watching Andrew as a father. It gets him out of a lot of pinches (figuratively and literally) and I’m so damn grateful. Happy Birthday my love, thank you for being you, even if it means I’ll die first. 🎂🎂🎂🎂🥰🥰🥰 #wednesdayswithwallis #oldhouselove #farmhouse #farmhousechristmas #oldtrucks #fatherdaughter #fatheranddaughter #cameramama #flashesofdelight #candidchildhood
  • I don’t want to lie to you, this is her pooping window. Yep, just turned 3 but still refuses to poop in anything but a pull-up. She likes to tell me, “mama I poop in the potty when I’m a little bit bigger” and I nod and say, “ok love” because her poop her choice, I don’t mess with that and as long as she’s pooping I’m happy. Also, since she’s home with me 24/7 - I figure we have time. But also also, hopefully “a little bit bigger” doesn’t mean 4, ha! Mama is getting tired of pull-up 💩😅 #wednesdayswithwallis #thiswasallaboutpoop #sorry #3yearsold #flashesofdelight #cameramama
  • Another Christmas birthday down, this year, number 3. Wallis’ birthday was a disaster. Andrew accidentally threw away 99% of the birthday decorations (which I didn’t realize until Christmas morning), I made the banana ice cream party’s banana ice cream too soft, and broke down sobbing in the middle of everyone singing Happy Birthday. - Wallis...she didn’t notice a thing and had the best.time.ever. She was so light, so fun and truly magic to watch. I know, that’s all that matters. To love her, is to love the best of life. Here we go 3, piggy too. of course. 🍌🐷🥳 #wednesdayswithwallis #thisisthree #christmasbirthday #loveherso
  • We are still very much in limbo over here, but this #bestnine made me too happy not to share. What a wonderful life it is, despite despite despite. Thank you for all your sweet messages while I’ve been away, I will do my best to catch up, but until, Happy New Year and wishing you all the most in 2019 😘😘🥳 #thisigrow #bestnine2018 #happynewyear

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