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Archive for August, 2008

cause and effect

Go ahead guess.

It looks like turds on toast(er oven) does it not? 
My pet bunny did not escape and poo all over the toaster oven.
Actually, this is what happens when you:

absentmindedly get out a bag of black beans, fulling intending to make black bean and corn chowder for dinner one of these nights
leave said plastic bag [...]

for alex

Tomorrow it will be 6 weeks since your life, since our lives, changed forever.  In those weeks, you’ve changed and grown more than I ever thought possible and handled it much better than I would have given you credit for. 

The first week when I cried and cried over everything, and lost patience with you countless [...]

stretch

I’ve started doing yoga again.  For all my good intentions to keep going till the end of pregnancy and to start back right after, every time I’d try to meditate or center myself I’d just fall asleep.
When I start a practice, all I want to do is backbend to counterpose all the forward bending I do [...]

another milestone in a mile of stones

Ah, 1pm and everyone is asleep.  Everyone except for me, because I have to restore the house and kitchen to it’s pre-hurricane state and get ready for the afternoon onslaught of children and spit up and toys everywhere. 
“Maybe I can finish in time to get in a little nap,” I think to myself.  Or even do [...]