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sick and smilin’

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My babe is sick. So we’re dealing with rough nights (ROUGHER nights I should say… I didn’t know that was possible!), weepy snotty coughy stuffy long days and clinging to mama like a chi-chi monkey. And all this while every single one of my clients finally pipes up and says: go! paint! make art miracles happen! So needless to say, this mama is a bit stressified. Hope Veda feels better soon… it’s heartbreaking to see her want to smile while feeling so icky.

In the meantime, we have good things going on like:

- swapping eggplants from our garden for pears from a friend’s tree.

- garden grown tomatoes eaten over the sink

- garden cukes and sunflowers

- helping my little sister get settled in her dorm room and started in her new school

- seeing students wandering around in the park, reading books and writing

- being big enough to swing in the baby swings

- reading my yoga textbooks in random and rare spare minutes

- kitchen renovation being 3/4 done

- studio/playroom conversion being 1/4 done

- goddess card readings

- walking to the post office to drop off mail

- frogmore stew parties (we veggies just don’t eat the sausage. do eat the shrimp though!)

- porch sitting in the rain

… baby crying. gotta go. tell me your happy things.

 

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  1. hey babaghanoush…. awwwww sweetie… sending you so much love and comfort… and healing to your sweet darling baby!

    my good things… i’m not morning sick today… OMG!!! it’s been HOLY REVOLUTIONARY to just not feel awful for a day… wooopeeeeee! i could make rainbows!

    big time adoring you! xoxox

  2. Anna Lloyd says:

    Wow it sounds like you are VERY busy, no wonder you are feeling stressed! I hope Veda feels well soon. To me you are a supermum!

    Good things… Making headway in the garden… getting out those weeds. Ethan’s talking is amazing, he is learning to count backwards before forwards! (due to a book about a spaceship). Finding time to do some sewing.

  3. Take care you and Veda~

    Happy thing is I’m getting ready for my first illustration show, it starts tomorrow night… it means a lot to me. : )

  4. P,

    I wrote to you just as you became pregnant about something v. insignificant. Now I’m writing to say, put breast milk in that baby’s nose…3 drops each side every 4 hours while baby is awake. You’re probably doing this, but if not, IT’S A MIRACLE WORKER. Also, I was preggo at same time almost the whole way. My baby William born on March 18th! So sayin’ “hey”, all best,

    Katherine

  5. oops! shouldn’t assume – saline if you’re not b-feeding….

  6. Katrina says:

    happy things: cool breezes even during the day. full moon glowing yellow in the sky. hearing hummingbirds chirp outside. one more weekend day to go. mocha almond fudge coconut milk ice cream.

    hope veda gets well soon!!

  7. jenny says:

    i hope mama and veda are feeling better now!!

    ummm…baby giggles that keep coming on like the hiccups, tulsi be head, bindis, whole days spent outside, our new pet — Lucy the coi fish…gotta get her a fam quick!, and garden harvest galore!

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