Glimpses of a good week
Cue the angel choir for the Halleluiah chorus… Dominic has slept from 8pm until 5:30am without needing us to get up to him several nights in the last week!! A bit more sleep makes the world an even happier place, and it’s been a pretty happy week already. We had good friends from California in town from Tuesday to Sunday and there were massages and fruit shakes and good talks over good wine. There was lemongrass stuffed with chicken and sticky rice, sunset boat rides on the Mekong and baby laughter, early-morning monk-spotting and late night chatting. Well, 9pm chatting, anyway. That’s...
Read MoreThe Game of I Like
Last Thanksgiving, a friend of ours, Ryan, introduced us to game called “I like”. The rules of this game are simple. You go around the table one by one and say something that starts with “I like”. Oh, and you can’t qualify it. None of this, “I like snowflakes but I really hate like how it gets so cold in winter that my teeth hurt.” No. No buts, just simple statements about things you like, one after the other in a chain of positive declaration. It’s a really cool game. (Also, once or twice Mike and I have gone to one of the few wine bars in Luang Prabang and ordered ourselves...
Read MoreSometimes you try
Saturday was a long day. There was a 5AM start, a flight to Thailand, four doctors appointments, three immunizations, two X-rays and a cast removal. We’d known it would be a hard day, so Mike and I had planned a special treat for after it was all over – we booked into a nice hotel with a pool and took Dominic for his first swim. The result? Well, let’s just say the photos belong in Mike’s “Sometimes You Try” facebook album. Me: “Dominic, guess what, we’re going swimming. Swimming is fun!” Dominic: “You also said the needles would...
Read MoreBest of 2011
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.” (Annais Nin) Happy New Years Eve! In the spirit of celebrating roads already travelled on this last day of the year here were your favourite posts of the year, my favourite posts of the year, and Mike’s favourite photos from 2011. Your favourite posts The most popular posts from this past year (judged by traffic) were all pregnancy related. I guess there’s a reason why so many “mommy blogs” become big deals. Ten Great Gifts for Pregnant Women and Thirty Great Gifts for Pregnant Women and New Parents Introducing...
Read MoreThings to love about coming home
We’ve been back 48 hours, and I’m way too tired to write anything deep on the current theme of love, so I thought I’d just offer a look at things I’ve loved about being back so far… The power went out before 9am the first morning we were back, so instead of unpacking and organizing necessities like change tables and diapers we spent three hours mostly trying to stay cool. Well, Mike and I tried to stay cool. Crazy baby didn’t want to lie on the tiles for some reason so he lay on Mike and sweated his way into a bad mood. A really bad mood. Oh, wait. I was supposed to be talking...
Read MoreHolidays in Noosa
Hello from the sunshine coast! I figured that after all the stress of being born Dominic deserved a holiday, so I packed him up and we’ve spent the last four nights at Noosa (also, the fact that some of my closest friends had planned to get-together for five nights up here may have been additional motivation). I was a little nervous about taking him away by myself at four weeks old, but it’s turned out to be a great decision to come crash this party. Three of my friends up here also have babies younger than nine months old so there have been many willing hands to cuddle little D, and lots...
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