(*Exhale*) I am barely keeping up with my life. My living room floor is covered with dry pinto beans that Henry will not let me clean up because, “Mom! The animals need that bean field!” Okay. Fine. But bean fields have been known to disappear when little people […]
White Love Birds (from Yumiyumi Etsy shop)
I’m not wearing mascara today. It’s an unusual thing for me, even on days with no plans I like to stroke the thick, dark paste through my blond lashes; makes me feel less dead. But not today. The likelihood of black, runny streaks is too great. […]
I’ve cried three times since giving birth to Lily — when my mother in law left, when my mother left, and on Sunday night. In my world, family departures always merit tears (lots of tears.) Sunday night was just a post-partom upheaval of emotions having to do with everything from my “mushroom haircut” […]