This morning we joined Wild Bear for an outdoor hike and workshop on Worms and Other Squirmies. We were gone less than three hours. I took a nap before we left, and another as soon as we got home. I ate before we left, and again when we got home, and had a snack while […]
Dadda took his girl to Sheplers for new boots. She outgrew her beloved red ones in the past week or so and decided she’d like some blue ones, her favorite color. After she found the perfect blue cowboy boots, a pair of black ones with red flames caught her eye. She decided on those, and […]
On Wednesday, with 3 weeks till my due date, my midwife and I made a belly memory cast. Zia handed the plaster of Paris strips to Kristine to wet and shape to my Crisco-covered belly. The baby wasn’t quite sure what was going on, and gave me a couple of good kicks as if to […]
Special moments from yesterday…my birthday! The card Zia and David gave me. The cover drawing is called “Mama with Balloon”. Inside: Pirate and Smiley Face. Back: “Not 5”. She may not know I’m 37, but she certainly knows I’m not five. A gift from David–a sienna Moby Wrap. He spoils me. An hour of animal […]
My red-headed Indian girl turned five today. Sadly, I am wondering if five might just be the official end of babyhood and the beginning of a whole new world, where the horizons go beyond that sweet encirclement of Mamma’s love and kisses. Here she is checking on the squirrel skin she and Dadda are curing. […]
