December 2010
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merry merry merry
I just wanted to have online proof that Sean once wore suspenders with Santa Claus on them: I even left the hyperlink in this time so you can click and make it bigger. Happy New Year’s, guys. Actually, you can probably expect a totally sappy New Year’s post tomorrow. It will probably have photos, links to blog entries, and multiple songs. It will probably be awesome. There’s a...
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Today Sean and I decided to be crazy and do something we haven’t done since before we ever dreamed up a little boy who took up residence in my body: we went to yoga class together. This, obviously, means Jasper was somewhere other than with us. The gym where we go to yoga has a child care center, and we optimistically/foolishly thought that we could leave Jasper there for an hour and he...
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Month Twenty-One
Dear Jasper, Here is what I love about you at this age: I love when you go to sleep at 8:30pm and wake up the next morning at 7:30. This is stellar, since you used to wake up at 6am, no matter what. It doesn’t always happen, but it is happening more frequently now, and it’s awesome. I love that sometimes when you wake up you smile at me and say “Mama” and we hold hands,...
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this may not be the most appropriate thing to...
Remember when I talked about how I was totally feeling fine about only having one child? Turns out that was a little…I hesitate to say premature, given my labor & delivery history, but it is what it is, I suppose. That “nagging feeling” that I spoke of nearly a year ago, the one that I said I was ok with, that I could manage, has been creeping up a storm on me, and it’s...
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Mixtape Masters: Vol. 6
YES, there are Christmas songs on this playlist! I debated whether or not I would do a Christmas-themed list today, and opted for YES YES YES, because, if anything, it’s fun. I accidentally skipped last week because Sean and I couldn’t get our days straight (I’m not kidding, we spent all of last week asking each other what day it was and mixing one another up), but I’m back...
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we're talking about books again
GET YE TO A BOOK STORE! Yesterday we were cruising around on our bikes (and it was so coooold; our car is in the SHOP and we’re at the mercy of Ford to get it back, because they have to order a part, and it’s the holidays, and and and..it could be a while) and decided to stop into a little local used bookstore. I used to go to this bookstore ALL THE TIME a few years ago, and there was...
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It's a brightly colored plastic thing that makes...
Christmas 2010 has already begun for a certain almost-21-months-old kid, the one that I gave birth to. I guess I should really start saying something like “the one that my husband and I created together” so that I don’t give myself ALL the credit, but seriously? Seriously. I gave birth to him. You know what kid I’m talking about, the one I talk about most of the time. SO,...
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there's so many people to see
You know why this time of year is AWESOME? MOVIES. Not Santa, not holidays, MOVIES. It’s the last mad dash for the Oscar nominations, and the best films of the year almost always come out between October & December. For example, Blue Valentine (Dec. 31, 2010): and Barney’s Version (Dec. 31): I LOVE REAL MOVIES. Not pretend teen-age-drama movies, though I love those also, but...
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hanging with my dude
You know why kids are cool? Little things, like sitting in the car waiting for it to warm up, are turned into big-time epic moments, due to the sweet chatter going on in the backseat, the “Mama, Mama” and “What, baby? What do you see?” And then waving out the window at cars, the sky, the trees, before you begin your journey. I’ve slipped into a habit of taking photos...
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hello mister, pleased to meet ya (also, I need...
Have you heard of Angus and Julia Stone? I’ll go ahead and confess that I’m not the biggest fan of Julia’s voice (it’s nothing personal against her, I just usually don’t dig female singers) EDIT: I take it back! Because I am now hooked on them both, individually, together, etc. The songs Angus sings slaaaaaaaaaay me. SEE: “Big Jet Plane” (I may or may not...
tugging at those heartstrings
In other news, I think Jasper’s getting a digital camera for Christmas. :)
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here we are again
Really, though, it’s not so bad. It’s awesome to be at home, to have your bed and music and space, to cuddle in the very best fleece turquoise blanket on the planet. I think Jasper kind of forgot about our apartment for a little while, because as soon as we walked in and settled, he made a beeline for all of his Little People toys as if he hadn’t seen them in eons (I suppose a...
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Mixtape Masters: Vol. 6
As it turns out, a week visiting a city in which you once lived is just long enough to feel like you’re back in the groove of things. If we had been here only five days, it would feel like a vacation. A week feels like we live here again, like we’re just going to hop on the bus and head home, like this is where we can stay. Boo. The artists in this playlist are all from Portland...
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1940-1980
Why would you want to spend any amount of time killing someone else? Removing a husband from his wife, a father from his son? A holy light of inspiration, truth, and humanity from the world? I never lived on the planet while John Lennon did, but I think I feel his loss pretty keenly.
you said you knew me and I believed you did
Not to be all predictable or anything, but I have noticed that since we’ve been out of our usual routine and daily lives, my days are going…it’s not that they’re moving slowly, because we’re really cramming a lot into our time in Portland and life is speeding along, but I feel like I’m experiencing more hours of the day fully, instead of rushing from task to...
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pdxin'.
IN PORTLAND! Upon our arrival, we were greeted with this: And I do believe I agree. So far, we’ve thrifted (oh, Portland, you and your amazing thrift stores), I’ve visited (and photographed two families at) a huge mountain in 20 degree weather and so much snow I literally sank in it, watched Jasper run around like crazy in a variety of new and different places, and visited our...
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Mixtape Masters: Vol 5
One thing I really love about Sean, and something that I very sincerely hope Jasper picks up, is his ability to make any female feel comfortable, relaxed, happy, and confident. When we were first dating, this was often times misconstrued (by me, mostly) as Sean flirting with everyone. After a few weeks, I soon realized two huge things about Sean: 1) He takes monogamy and our relationship very...
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learning to fly
How do people get away with never taking their kids anywhere during the day? Is it that you just never, ever take them anywhere, or only to a few places, so they think the world is a much smaller place? Because Jasper will wake up at 6am and be at the front door at 6:08, reaching up for the door knob, looking at me and saying, “Go, go, go” very insistently. We’re out every single...
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she put down in writing what was in her mind
One of the best things about the recent holiday break is that I got to actually READ A BOOK, and that means I nearly finished Marc Chagall’s bio, My Life. There’s a passage that I really love, because it’s chock-full of magical realism and the sublime, and approaches that of Marquez, except it’s not fiction, it’s autobiographical. Be still young heart: Her silence is...