Goodness the weeks just keep flying by don't they?! I finally feel better today (thank the Lord!) and I'm looking forward to spending the weekend with my family. It's been very overcast today and threatening rain. I've been doing laundry, crossing the last few things off my to do list and cleaning up. There's white bean chili in the crock pot and I...
Quiet mornings in this house are one of my favorite things. Watching the sun trickle in through the thick of the forest. Hearing the rustling of the squirrels in the leaves and the plop, plop of acorns on the deck. Sometimes I can't even believe we live here - in the woods, on a mountain. A year later and it's still surreal to...
At 29 weeks I am feeling more than kicks, papa bear and I can actually detect tiny hands and feet! It's such a strange feeling to have baby bear moving around inside me (to the point where you don't have to feel you can just look at my belly), nothing on earth compares and nothing can prepare you for what it feels like....
Even though my sickness/sinus infection continued into the weekend we managed to have a bit of fun. Saturday we drove to Charlottesville where we strolled through downtown and stopped in the most darling little baby boutique and picked up a few things for baby. We had lunch on the patio of a Thai restaurant that restored our faith in Thai food (our fave...
I had all these big plans for this week... and then I got sick. So things kind of turned into a mess, literally and figuratively. The house looks abominable since we basically never bothered to unpack since we got home, there's tissues everywhere and the dishes have found a permanent home in the sink. In midst of all this I've been trying to...
I'm 28 weeks today and a week into my third trimester. According to what everyone tells me this is when it stops being fun. So far it seems about right. For the past couple of months everyone has been telling me how small I look considering how far along I am. Now mind you the baby is measuring just fine at every appointment....
This weekend was all kinds of awesome. I think it all started when I baked brownies Friday afternoon. I totally forgot how long it takes to make brownies so by the time they were ready it was twilight, I had lit some candles and the smell of baked chocolate had permeated the whole house, it was kind of magical. I might need to...
It's 7:30 am and it's Saturday. I've actually been up since 6, wide awake. I stopped sleeping well about a month ago, which is unfortunate but it occasionally has it's upsides. Like today... when I just sat in bed looking at my family - my sweet husband (who when he sleeps breaks my heart with how adorable he is), my kitty and dog with their...
This was the week when in the mornings you could really sense autumn fast approaching. But the afternoons were still strictly reserved for summer's last hours. I took the opportunity on Monday afternoon to capture some last moments of summer at the farm/school. It's a rather odd time now, this tug of war between summer and fall... Pumpkins are appearing everywhere and yet...
