Nursing Buddha

Baby Buddha’s first food was apple. Followed now by banana, sweet potato, butternut squash, and carrot. She has the start of two teeth on the bottom, which she is handling with grace.  She’s developed a knee scoot sort of pre-crawl. It mostly sends her backwards in a circle, looks a little like “the worm”…but she [...]

My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing
of blood and air through my lungs,

The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and
dark-color’d sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,

The sound of the belch’d words of my voice loos’d to the eddies of
the wind,

The play of shine and shade [...]

First, holy crap. It’s 2010. Second, well okay, that’s really all I’ve got, it’s 2010. Ten years ago I was in San Francisco, surviving the devastatingly epic over-sell of Y2K. This year I’m raising a kidlet in the Dirty Dirty, still waiting on Armageddon. We started 2010 off with black eyed peas and ice on [...]

I’m time traveling a little bit in the date span here. It’s only the 28th but I can pretty much guarantee I won’t be updating again before 2010 so let’s just wrap 2009 up here and now.
I was pregnant for a little more than half of this year, and now I’ve been a mom for [...]

What’s great about babies these days, the poly-fiber blend makes them totally machine washable. Modern day convenience in the same old fashioned packaging. What will they think of next?!

We had a great, looming pecan tree in the backyard. It was only half-living, the other half dust-filled and as delicate as lace. Its far reaching branches posed a constant threat to our roof and occasional disruption to our electricity. So just recently, we said good-bye, scary zombie pecan tree.
Besides how adept they were at [...]

Welcome to Baby Buddha’s instructional demo, “How to go to Oatland Island.” We hope you will find it educational.
First, start off with the best of intentions, to see and do it all.

Second, start getting sleepy with the first stop: alligators.

Proceed to sleep through a fox,

two cougars, who apparently don’t roar like lions but instead meow [...]

I’m thankful for…
My family. My loving husband and our beautiful baby, for making my life complete. My folks, for loving us and loving her and always being amazing.
I’m thankful for our health and well-being, for our safety and security. We have jobs, we have a home, we have each other. I have no idea [...]

The Man had a birthday. We celebrated with monkey bread and snickerdoodles and whispered conversation while Baby Buddha slept in the next room.
We went to a derby match and saw a lovely friend compete in her last bout here. We cheered and tried not to think too much about how soon we’ll have to say [...]