… when blogs go silent & the number of daily readers plummets. I am obviously no exception. I’m busy running around to farmers markets, collecting pick ups at my CSA*, walking, finishing the house & plotting our belated honeymoon. Which, by the way, we’ve finally come to an absolute conclusion. I’m a little bummed about […]
Well, it’s time to start planning that belated honeymoon of ours, because if we don’t… October will be here before you know it and we won’t be able to do a thing. As is typical of me, who always gets skittish when it’s time to commit to something & make plans, I’ve started questioning and […]
I hadn’t yet given a full listen to the new Bonobo album yet, but Mr Nikki put one of the tracks, Stay the Same, into a mix for me and it’s been a long time since I heard lyrics that got under my skin like these: “A night train. / Midnight. / Bags gathered ’round […]
Man, I love Pink Martini… Listen to this and tell me you don’t want to throw on a pair of high heels, a flouncy dress, and spin around while running to the airport to run off to Argentina or something. I double dog dare you.
I’ve stopped and started a “song of the day” thing on this blog a million times over the years. I’ve been sharing songs back and forth with my new Norwegian friend, so now’s as good a time as any to start again. Especially seeing as it’s that time of the year where people don’t do […]
For the millionth time in the past couple months, kid (kid? teen?) came a-knocking at our door, asking me to buy stuff for their fundraiser. I feel like a real sh*t saying no to them, and wonder if everyone on the block is going to think I’m a bitch for doing so. (Wow. Only 3 […]
I did a search for farmer’s markets on the east side* and found LOTS. Enough that I could go to at least one (sometimes two or three) each day of the week. Yesterday, I went to the one in Carnation, expecting great things, from what I’d read on the website. I was a little disappointed, […]
I have to say, I’m pretty damned proud of myself. I haven’t been all talk lately, but following all the practices that I claim to believe in so strongly. This week I signed us up for a farm share with Root Connection. For about $30/week (payable in monthly installments from June through October), you get […]
I started writing that last post a couple weeks ago – and as I was writing, I kept thinking (as I often do about such things), “DON’T SAY THIS! YOU’LL JINX IT!” But do I ever listen? Nooooooo… So I jinxed it, instead. I started to write this a couple weeks ago, and I came […]
Nugget is – OH MY GOD – 6 months old this week. Can I just say that, so far, this is the BEST AGE EVER. I know it’ll continue to go up and down, but right now, I love this age on him. Love it. He’s finally started sleeping on a consistent schedule – anywhere […]
Well. Everyone posted about their mother’s day, so I’ll post about mine! A couple of weeks ago, we were watching Top Chef Masters and during the introduction, I yelled, “There’s one in Seattle! We should go!” Mr Nikki agreed, and then we promptly forgot about it. Well, *I* forgot about it. Mr Nikki did not. […]
This wasn’t intentionally for mother’s day, I just happened to read this, this morning – about how (or if) birth influences you as a mother. I don’t know, for me if Nugget’s birth INFLUENCED how I mother, so much as it was an indicator of how I would be as a mother. The postpartum doula […]
