Well, finally got everything configured at the new domain and won’t be posting here anymore. So please join the post-partum fun over here.
I can’t believe how much I love this child.
May 6, 2008 at 2:33 pm (Uncategorized)
It feels like my heart is going to break from it all.
The Luxury of Time
May 1, 2008 at 8:52 pm (Uncategorized)
Days slip past like firebugs on a June evening from a Midwestern porch. I wake, I change a diaper, I eat, I nurse, I rest. I sit on the deck and read. I organize a box to move to the new house. I chat on the phone. People come over and we eat sandwiches or chocolate and drink cardamom tea.
I feel the rhythm of life with the new bean starting to gel. I’m not working, instead, as Jerry Michalski so aptly put it, I am “following my curiosities.” This includes devouring RSS feeds from my parent pals to politics to child development nerds to TED and Maker-type stuff. And pecking out emails one-handed, while breastfeeding.
I LOVE this life.
The concept of a job just seems so completely foreign to me. My schedule is now completely random. I wake at 12, 3 and 4:30 AM. Or at 11, 2 and 5 AM. Or whenever the bean bloody well wants me to. What better driver of my time than this? This and my curiosities, I note. And how fortunate that they overlap so completely.
The roses and Matilija poppies are exploding in the garden. I have time to clean and keep the house from veering into chaos.
I am head over heels in love with her. I love her with the proud passion of, well, her mama. I assume most people feel this way about their kids. I hope so. Everyone should have someone else feel this way about them when they come into this world. And every day after that, I might add.
