Things to do:
I couldn't sleep the other night so I sent a pitch to This American Life. I'm telling you this not because I think anything will come of it (though I do keep checking my spam folder) but because I need you to know that this is what I do when I can't sleep.
I started reading a new book - The City Gardener's Handbook. I'm going to have an amazing garden someday. Starting this year. Bob did some work in front of the house yesterday and it made my heart positively lift. We have red tulips. Who knew?! I'm working up the steel to ask the lady on the corner if she'll teach me things if I offer to weed with her. It's not that I'm shy; I just want to guarantee the commitment to myself before I offer it to someone else.
We went on a picnic yesterday and it was amazing. We shared cucumber, mushroom (sauted in sherry), olive, sundried tomato and cream cheese sandwiches and chips and hummus. Bob drank a Blue Cream Moxie and I had a Raspberry-Lemon Fizzy Lizzy. After we ate, Ollie and Bob played in the creek while I fed Sadie and we all laid down to snuggle and semi-snooze together. And then there was ice cream and orange cream soda and root beer. Pretty sure that qualified as the best day ever. I feel like a real family.
I've been cooking with Sadie in the kitchen. I prop her in the high-chair (which is huge for her, but I stuff blankets around her) and let her sniff and touch all the veggies and spices. She thinks cumin is funny apparently. We count all the chops and are amazed by sizzle noises. I am so grateful for this chance to experience life with her.
I started my composting again and we're slowly transitioning Sadie to all cloth diapers. I'm feeling pretty good about my attempts to conserve. Finally the trash bags don't feel so numerous.
I've been reading The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh to Sadie and remembering how great the stories are. Who could forget the brilliant sweetness of Stoutness Exercises? Also, I am on the brink of having more than two Shel Silverstein poems memorized.
Sadie has also become my new workout buddy. I do plank push-ups to kiss her, and she rests on my thighs while I'm doing my pilates hundreds. This is all working out so perfectly.
We're going on vacation to North Carolina with my parents and siblings in June and I can't wait. I need it. I dream about it almost every night.
I can't sleep again, can you tell? I wish my throat didn't hurt so badly. I still am refusing to accept that I may have allergies. I'm worried that Sadie has stuffy sinuses, too. I refuse to be allergic!.. but I think I might be.
Ok, I think I can sleep now. Goodnight all.
Moss art and Milestones,
D
I started reading a new book - The City Gardener's Handbook. I'm going to have an amazing garden someday. Starting this year. Bob did some work in front of the house yesterday and it made my heart positively lift. We have red tulips. Who knew?! I'm working up the steel to ask the lady on the corner if she'll teach me things if I offer to weed with her. It's not that I'm shy; I just want to guarantee the commitment to myself before I offer it to someone else.
We went on a picnic yesterday and it was amazing. We shared cucumber, mushroom (sauted in sherry), olive, sundried tomato and cream cheese sandwiches and chips and hummus. Bob drank a Blue Cream Moxie and I had a Raspberry-Lemon Fizzy Lizzy. After we ate, Ollie and Bob played in the creek while I fed Sadie and we all laid down to snuggle and semi-snooze together. And then there was ice cream and orange cream soda and root beer. Pretty sure that qualified as the best day ever. I feel like a real family.
I've been cooking with Sadie in the kitchen. I prop her in the high-chair (which is huge for her, but I stuff blankets around her) and let her sniff and touch all the veggies and spices. She thinks cumin is funny apparently. We count all the chops and are amazed by sizzle noises. I am so grateful for this chance to experience life with her.
I started my composting again and we're slowly transitioning Sadie to all cloth diapers. I'm feeling pretty good about my attempts to conserve. Finally the trash bags don't feel so numerous.
I've been reading The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh to Sadie and remembering how great the stories are. Who could forget the brilliant sweetness of Stoutness Exercises? Also, I am on the brink of having more than two Shel Silverstein poems memorized.
Sadie has also become my new workout buddy. I do plank push-ups to kiss her, and she rests on my thighs while I'm doing my pilates hundreds. This is all working out so perfectly.
We're going on vacation to North Carolina with my parents and siblings in June and I can't wait. I need it. I dream about it almost every night.
I can't sleep again, can you tell? I wish my throat didn't hurt so badly. I still am refusing to accept that I may have allergies. I'm worried that Sadie has stuffy sinuses, too. I refuse to be allergic!.. but I think I might be.
Ok, I think I can sleep now. Goodnight all.
Moss art and Milestones,
D