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we are finally moving in! tonight will be the first night in our house.
this also means that i will be absent from here for a while, until everything gets hooked up over there.
oh, i am so relieved. feeling full of beginnings.
speaking of beginnings, i had my first family portrait shoot this weekend! exciting. they turned out gorgeous (how could a one week old baby be anything but?) and the mama loved them. hopefully the beginning of something really wonderful for me.
see you back here soon!
i had one of those nights last night during which all i could do was dream these terrible, disappointing dreams, one right after the other. it was such a relief to wake up.
but one of my not-so-disappointing dreams is coming true! we are really moving into our new house. after over six months of waiting and wishing, we are finally far enough along in the process to be able to move our things out of storage and into the house. still not far enough along to actually move ourselves over there. yet. but very soon.
a real-life ongoing bad dream is bunny’s illness.
basically, she has been sick since we started her on solid food. sometimes she seems a bit better, sometimes worse. i remember when i was trying to wean her (didn’t work anyhow, she still nurses. probably more often than her little sister) she got so thin i was up nights crying about it. i feel like we’ve tried everything and i still don’t know how to help her.
at this point we are gluten-free, dairy-free, all organic and primarily local food. no allergens or toxins in anything that i use in the house, like detergents or cleaners.
and yet she still has trouble gaining weight, has angry swathes of itchy skin, dark smudges of half moons under her eyes- the list goes on, and some of the symptoms are even more unsettling. but she has always been bright, and coordinated, and developmentally on target- usually advanced! if a little small, which made me think she must be okay on some level.
i think i may be in over my head trying to heal her alone. i found what seems to be a very reputable naturopath in the area, so that is my next step. my poor baby.
thank god i can still nurse her. this is breaking my heart.
currently reading:
michael pollan’s new book
a handmade life
how to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk
gluten-free girl
the daring book for girls (thank you to my husband for such a fun birthday present!)
on the docket, in no particular order:
playful parenting
easy to love, difficult to discipline
raising our children, raising ourselves
siblings without rivalry
connection parenting
buddhism for mothers
real food: what to eat and why
everyday blessings
mitten strings for god
the family at home
apples for jam
kitchen of light
consumer’s guide to homeopathy
homeopathic self-care
everybody’s guide to homeopathic medicines
must edit to add links when i think of it.
i can’t edit my photos in my preferred program anymore (lightroom, baby) and so i’ve just been uploading them as is. actually, i think the unfooled-around-with photos are better. what does that say about me? or better yet, what does that say about my photography/editing skills? hmm.
lovely new year’s eve. hubby and i spent it the same way we have every year since we’ve been married: peanut m&m’s, all-night twilight zone reruns, and bed at midnight.
i hope you had a satisfying celebration, too!
am i the only one who had more drafts of posts saved this year than actual posts written?
here is my new year’s resolution: go ahead and press publish. even when i haven’t looked it over a hundred times or reconsidered what i wanted to say. even without what i’m sure would be the perfect accompanying photograph. just to write something every day- (wait, did i just say every day?) and actually let it go out into the world.
whew. 2008 is looking better already.
