My absence was caused by two things, first a broken laptop, second a bit of sickness going around the our house. Everyone seems on the mend, today, Adam is back at work, Reed ate a normal breakfast. I didn’t realize until today that all the sickness wore me out, though, with lots of sleep, I [...]
I am moving out of the part of pregnancy that keeps me in bed and into the part that is nothing but joy, joy straight from the bottle. I even ate a normal breakfast today, a weekend breakfast with eggs and greens and cheese and oats and yogurt and milk and coffee. I ate it [...]
Yesterday, I felt very well. Reed and I played wildly, and I hung glow-in-the-dark stars above his crib, the stars Adam and I both had in our rooms as kids and took such delight in. I organized his bookshelf, and Reed unorganized it behind me, and I looked around and saw that I wasn’t sitting [...]
I love that people don’t stop to talk to one another on the street. It’s too cold, so things stay nice and quiet and lonesome, and you can shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk without being required to talk to them. I love red cheeks and wool skirts and mittens and darkness and the snow under the [...]
It is December, and and I woke to a chilly day with a small smack of snow. I wouldn’t call it The First Snow- the flurries hardly dusted the sidewalk- but it did not feel like autumn any longer. I wanted to tuck into the indoors, to buy candles and wear mittens.
This winter already feels [...]
When Reed woke from napping and the sun cooled, my bare-legged baby and I took to the streets, pacifier, keys, and tree manual in hand. I can’t think of a better way to spend an afternoon. While we were out learning to spot hawthorns, black ash, and red river birch, we checked in on some [...]
This morning as I walked around in my pajamas, my feet were cold and so were my shoulders. I couldn’t find a sweater, so I wrapped myself in a wool blanket and hoped that it would get nice and warm this afternoon.
When I put Reed down for his nap, I watched the fat maple leaves [...]
Number 100- Dandelion Wine Part 1
Step 1: Wake up before sunrise on a very warm morning and open all the windows. At 7:00, when the baby wakes up and you are so happy to see him, note that this is the time the air smells best on hot days. The sun is warming up the [...]
In September, I bought a plum tree. It was 50% off, and not in the best shape. An older man helped me bring it to my little car, and, me being eight months pregnant, neither of us had the mobility to get it situated well in the trunk. We broke a bunch of branches in [...]
Today is snowy. Not December snowy: the sort of snow that makes you want to strap on a snowsuit and jump and run and roll in it. It is February snowy: the sort of snow that you want to watch from the warm side of the window with some cinnamon rolls in the oven. It [...]