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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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    May 24, 2017

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    January 25, 2017

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    October 5, 2016

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  • July 18, Wallis (31 Months)

    August 1, 2018

  • June 18, Wallis (30 months old)

    June 25, 2018

  • April 18, Wallis

    May 3, 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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July 18, Wallis (31 Months)

August 1, 2018

June 18, Wallis (30 months old)

June 25, 2018

April 18, Wallis

May 3, 2018

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  • Thank you for all of your sweet comments (and private messages) from my last post! - I seem to be the kind of person that walks into adversity like it’s my job. I’ve always told my husband that without me around he’d be all, clear skies ahead! 😅 - And clearly I am saying all this with full awareness that there are much worse circumstances, and at least we have our health, and jobs. But also, I can still be devastated and angry. Which I am and will be, for a very long time. - My husband is hoping things will turnaround and Wallis continues to remind us that home is wherever she’s making a poop joke. But still, 😢 #thisigrow #hydrangeas #countrygarden #flowergarden #flowergardener #flowergardening #summerflowers #inmygarden
  • I don’t know where to begin...as if this summer couldn’t get worse with the never-ending hard rain, we received some news that has left us breathless. - We might be forced to sell our dream home, my dream garden and our hearts are broken. It might seem silly to love something so much and as a child that grew up moving every 4 years, I understand — but we’ve poured our souls into our home. We have worked so desperately hard on our old house and built a garden from nothing but chaos and severe neglect. - We don’t take vacations, we don’t buy new clothes etc...we fix our home and work in our garden and now, we’re faced with starting over, something we never even imagined possible because our eyes have been transfixed on what we know this place could be and a goal we were pushing ourselves towards, slow and steady...but always forward. - I can’t talk about what’s happening because it’s still unfolding, but I have woken up every night for a week at exactly 3 am with my chest pounding, fully panicked over it all, my mind spinning trying to grasp at one thing to steady my focus. I have cried and cried. Sorry to be vague, sorry to be dramatic to some - my eyes have never been rose-tinted to where we live, and even how much we still have to do...but we literally moved for this home, altered our lives and now 7 years later, it could all be over. 💔 #thisigrow #oldhomelove #farmhouse #flowergarden #flowergardening #inmygarden #oldhouse #oldhouselove #countrygarden
  • Another 90 degree day and another picture of hydrangeas. What can I say? I’m stuck in a summer loop 💙 - Also, anyone else feel like they have a gnat infestation outside...it’s driving me bonkers. I don’t remember it ever being this bad, I can barely open my eyes while gardening. 🧐😩 #thisigrow #countrygarden #flowergardening #inmygarden #inmygardentoday #flowergarden #hydrangeas #hydrangea #howdoesyourgardengrow
  • Wallis wakes up at 5:30 every day...often earlier. Even though I wish it were later, it does mean I’m in my garden during its best hour...😴🦄💜 #thisigrow #countrygarden #flowergardening #inmygarden #inmygardentoday #howdoesyourgardengrow #gardenflowers #hydrangeas #summerflowers
  • Every time I’ve returned from taking photos of my garden, Wallis exclaims, “did you run into big spider web, mama!?” because I did once, a few months ago. - Her eyes are so big with hope that I did, that I feel bad whenever I have to tell her no. I’ll be sad the day she stops asking, because it’s one of those little things that I pocket and smile about each time I hold my camera. 🕸🕷 #thisigrow #countrygarden #inmygarden #flowergardening #inmygardentoday #flowergardener #flowergarden #gardenflowers #hydrangea
  • When you get married and two families merge there will always be oddities and thoughtlessness, some of it will be more hurtful than all of it, but I think you always hope it might work itself out in time. - When Wallis was born I had high hopes, too high really that she would be the part that gave pause and soothed some of that weirdness....but nothing ever goes the way you expect or hope. Wallis has an entire side of her family that doesn’t act as though she even exists and shows favoritism towards another child (her same age). It is the most confusing, hurtful and nonsensical experience - that I keep working to make peace with. I basically get angry, followed by defeat, and then acceptance (on repeat). - Part of the issue is me. I grew up in a home with a family at war, a war that had my parents often turning on each other. I so desperately wanted something better for Wallis, that I think I’m fighting for us both, since I was too young to before. - But the thing is, Wallis is fine. My husband is fine. Neither of them care, or even think of this family anymore. Instead they do what I wish I could fully be resolved in doing. They focus on those that show them unconditional love. My husband joyfully reads the comments/emails/mail we receive from family members that adore Wallis and love us. Wallis talks about every single person that is a constant in her life and doesn’t even mention the names that are not, because that’s truthfully how it’s suppose to work. And constant can mean many things, not just being physically there - even a 2.5 year old understands distance. - Life is complicated and it gets even more so when you bring a child into it, because it forces you to face the loss that was already there and the issues that will not be resolved but also, do not need a home in your heart. Some things are just unexplainable, unfixable, and it is better to absorb what is given instead of taken...I’m working on it. ❤️ #thisigrow #oldfarmhouse #flowergardening #flowergarden #countrygarden #inmygarden #inmygardentoday #hydrangeas #lifeiscomplicated #howdoesyourgardengrow
  • After weeks of rain I didn’t think I’d miss it, until weeks of nearly 100 degree temps with humidity followed. If it wasn’t for my hydrangeas, I’d stay inside until Autumn. I will never be someone that appreciates a southern summer. 👩🏼‍🌾 #thisigrow #summergarden #summerflowers #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #inmygardentoday #inmygarden #countrygarden
  • This gardening season has been the most turbulent when it comes to weather that I’ve experienced, and I have found myself feeling as though everything is fading much too quickly. Luckily, I captured this beauty before the heatwave wilted its delicate petals.💜 #thisigrow #flowergarden #flowergardening #countrygarden #inmygardentoday #inmygarden #hydrangea
  • I have always struggled with gratitude because to my troubled mind, gratitude is the ability to stay present, a trait I do not naturally have. I live in a past of loss, and mistakes. I do not look at my garden without seeing the work it took, or hug my dogs without thinking of the one I lost....I do not arrive into a day as though it is new to me, instead I wake with the days that were and I always have. I am not nostalgic...my internal dialogue is just constant. I workout just to silence my mind for a bit, and there are times that I struggle to find a way out...but I always do. I am anxious for resolution so I leave myself behind. I am only now understanding who I was and who I am, though I keep trying to wrap it up, get there, THE END but I fall again. - It wasn’t until Wallis that I admitted out loud the anxiety I have carried for so long, alone, and it wasn’t until Wallis that I realized how to live in both places, but maintain that pounding gratitude for her, her life and in this world. Loving her has made a mess of all my hidden ways, and taken my straighten lines away. She doesn’t care about all the things that got me here, because to her, I am her always and as and am. Sometimes I wish I could just be that, start here and over, but I know she needs who I was to guide her through her now. Motherhood was not what I expected, because I thought I could keep hiding despite it, but loving like this pokes holes and lets the light in...just enough to heal. ❤️ #wednesdayswithwallis #motherhoodunplugged #motherhoodrising #motherhood #childhoodunplugged #flashesofdelight #mylight #30monthsold
  • Wallis is 2.5 today! Since Wallis’ birthday is on Christmas, we like to do something special for her half birthday. This year she got a new bike, one with only two wheels and she embraced it as she does with everything, hesitation and then fierce commitment. She was adamant that she wanted a blue bike with a blue helmet. - She is officially “day dry” as the potty peeps call it and that was all her. She had a really bad week (as I shared earlier this month) as she was adjusting to hating all things diaper/pull-up but not quite ready to commit to underwear. The following week she committed and it’s been pretty smooth since then, except having to convince her to wear a pull-up at night 🤦‍♀️ She tells us when she has to go and does not like being asked, I typically get a long sigh followed by “no mama, I do not have to go to pot-pot” but it’s proven reliable she’s only had 1 accident. 🤷‍♀️ - I am soooo not ready for all these changes that are happening so swiftly now, I feel like my heart is filling with emotional sand. I keep saying to her, “Wallis I do not want you to grow any more” to which she replies, “I want to grow!” followed by (while in a squatting position then slowly standing up) “grow grow grow!” which I find to be particularly cruel. 😒😉 - Here she is staring at and talking about our neighbors...as one does when they get their first bike. 💔🍰🎈#wednesdayswithwallis #30monthsold #flashesofdelight #cameramama #fromwhereistand #documentyourdays #motherhoodsimplified #oldhouselove
  • I don’t think there’s been a moment since her birth, that I haven’t thought, “you have no idea how lucky you are” when seeing them together. Wallis is truly unconditionally loved by her dad - his love for her is kind, open, soft and giving. He would rather be present than climb a ladder, to him being with her now is the most important job he has. - Everyday he shows his love for her, not just towards her, but also through the way he loves me. She will have such confidence in herself because of this and oh how grateful I am to experience it 💙#wednesdayswithwallis #happyfathersday #29monthsold #fatherdaughter
  • I was wondering do any of you have this super power, that if there’s a passive aggressive comment in the room you’re going to be the one that catches it? Like 100% minding your own business and bam, there it is. 😂 - Well that’s mine and I’m pretty sure I inherited it from my mom. There’s just something about us that really bothers some people (most?). We still laugh about how my mom would drive past this guy everyday on her drive to work and he’d be standing on his front lawn giving the finger to all the cars passing by, but when it was her turn to pass him, he’d give her double birds. That’s basically our walk with life. 😅 - Seriously it seems to annoy some people (and a decent amount of my husband’s family 😒) that I love our house, that I love our kid, our dogs...you name it, and I get a slingshot of rude comments about it. I don’t even talk about the things I listed above to anyone, I’m a private person and rarely share in person but it 👏🏼 doesn’t 👏🏼 matter 👏🏼 because that’s another thing that bothers them! - I’m telling you it’s my super power...so if you’ve ever watched gripping pain fall over a friend’s face as they struggle to pay you a compliment, then you too might have this super power...and hopefully you handle it with the same amount of ice cream as I do. 😉👩‍🎤👩‍🎤👩‍🎤👩‍🎤👩‍🎤👩‍🎤 #thisigrow #flowerstagram #countrygarden #flowergardening #gardenflowers #inmygarden #flowergarden #howdoesyourgardengrow #farmhouse #thisoldhouse

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