From the monthly archives:

July 2011

On Staying Grounded

July 29, 2011

Sweet babe growing and stretching
showing off the most beautiful bum through belly.
I prepare to birth as the new me,
since she’s never given birth before.
New dreams and new lessons learned
the pieces fit back together but remain changed
even now, as healing isn’t over.
I wonder if it will ever be over?
To soul-heal and grow a baby at the [...]

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A Roving Summer

July 26, 2011

We’ve had an interesting summer of moving and growing a belly in the Southern heat. All those things happening at once are new to me, especially while wrangling these three beast boys. It’s been too hard to figure out what the plans are because there is no plan. These are kids who thrive on routine, [...]

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On Trimester Three

July 11, 2011

*Image by WeHeartIt

I have a quiet one in here.
Baby FiFi likes awake and sleep times,
but if memory serves,
all the brothers were wildness personified by now.
I reached the third trimester while traveling and
it doesn’t seem real.
Like HOW can it be real?
I’m so in love and so in disbelief,
still.

I wrote a bit about it today over [...]

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On Learning To Walk

July 10, 2011

*illustration by Oliver Jeffers

It must be some combination of
the hormones and the salads my husband keeps making for me.
The green smoothies that clear my mind and
leave only self awareness and love discovery.
As a soul-infant I wish to learn everything at once all of the sudden.
I fret about not being able to learn fast enough.
Not [...]

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On Holiday

July 7, 2011

I have this post in my drafts that says nothing but
“when I was a young warthog”
I can’t remember why I wrote that or where I was going with it…
and every time I look at it I am surprised again.
It’s kindof like when you go on a trip and think you will have all this relaxing [...]