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How to have a baby

  1. No expectations
    Expect everyone to fall apart around you in the days and weeks before. Toddlers unfurl despite desperate attempts to get ahead of the unfurling. Grandparents hem and haw. People you haven’t heard from reach out, time gets woozy, days become decades. People bluster about while you steady your aim, feeling the eruptions as energy, sourced from the remarkableness of this. Avoid any expecting.

  2. Rest:work ratio
    As an athlete you always known the kinship between work an…

Real food real God

Growing up in the church of “thoughts worth thinking about” as my mother deemed any Sunday service, spirituality was floating wisps of considerations, strangled by a bad preacher, or pinned to your chest by a good one. Choosing, dissecting, snacking.

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kind of reminds me of being in an auto store, getting a part for a vehicle we should have let die years ago, kids losing it, scraping together money to pay. When we were first dating, not only did future husband have the black ice hanging in his Prius but rubbed it all over his shirt before a date.

Reading this Birth Vibes

Birthing in 4 weeks or less, 3rd time through the ringer and Jen Hamilton has the right touch this time: funny, irreverent, not so woo woo I lose my footing. Just enough tears and laughs to move this mamma into the next episode 🫀

5 reminders to myself in the last months before baby three:

  1. The boundaries that accumulate, slow at the start, and more rigid towards arrival, are valuable. Heed their messages, resist reaching out, cocoon in, reserve where you can. Make soft place for new messages to land. Laying on the couch watching reels of Jen Hamilton, heavy from the day, a smile, then creeping, warm assurance, “my love is growing, I feel It,” I whisper shout at husband. I have doubted. The important things come in time.

Moms need more support postpartum

Moms need more support postpartum. It can’t be said enough.

Oh the chicken

Ratatouille…

got my period 4 days early

cuz they doing all that crazy shit on the moon.