Wow.  It's been a long time since I posted in this journal.  

In an effort to turn over a new life, I'm closing this journal and starting a new one.

The new name is
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Home, home, home, home, and home.

Long trip from Seattle. Wow. Long trip. Avie was an angel though. Luckily. She's such a good baby.

Lots of pictures from her birthday. Sorry, no presents. Tho' I did get a bunch of yarn to make presents with. So, in theory....

Too tired. Need sleep. Zombie eyes.

Woooarrraagghhhhh!!!!!!!

I am proud of myself. I managed to get the quilt and the sock monkey done in time for Julian's birthday yesterday. With tons of help from Amanda, of course. It felt really good to actually finish a project with semi-decent results. He seemed to like it as well. Now to move on down my list of quilts to make for other people ( Read more... )

We went to the Farmer's Market today and got an organic whole dead chicken. Mmm... real chicken. Plus a thing of chicken livers, fresh good pastry, goat cheese, and another white balloon plant. I ran into Anne and Chuck who wanted to meet Avie. It was good to have a chance to sit and talk with them. Amanda went to the bank and brought mum and ( Read more... )

The funny, the good, and the bad ( Read more... )

Sleeping with my daughter, the smell of her hair next to me and how she rests her hand on my stomach and puts her feet on my thighs and just curls into me when she's nursing to sleep. Her first smile of the morning and the look in her eyes when she wakes up and sees me next to her ( Read more... )

Cyric is down at the bathrooms doing the nightly check. Avie is walking around the coffee table, going after my knitting needles (moved to safety) and discovering all the paper in the wastebasket. We were watching 300 with the subtitles on, of course, since the ear infections have reduced my hearing to half of what is was before when it wasn't ( Read more... )

Avie had her nine month check-up yesterday. She's a chunky monkey at 21 pounds, and tall for her age at 29 inches. The doctor we see is moving away which is unfortunate because of how wonderful she is. She's completely supportive of my breastfeeding still almost exclusively, co-sleeping, and pretty much all we're doing. She says we're doing ( Read more... )

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