5 & 1

This Sunday we celebrate 5 years together, 1 year married. I have known Tom since I was 19 and just starting college. Amazing.

Manomama, did I think he was a cutiepie.

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this picture is so awesome i’ve been splashing it all over the internet. taken at the goat farm during a dance truck performance (PLOT). , by the talented karley sullivan of atlanta, ga.

in other news, a few more to add to the list.
1. tattoo
2. continue violin lessons
3. begin smoking intermittently
4. go on great fun trip to new orleans with tom baby-free
5. quit smoking again
6. take nico to georgia aquarium
7. get a job that can actually pay some bills around here
8. buy a 1982 mercedes-benz 123 wagon
9. go to mexico
10. start meditating/ go on yoga retreat (should i wait til i’m 39 for this one?)
11. just go to dance class
12. begin herbalism course (aviva jill romm?)
13. organize art show
14. gain more birth training
15. go to italy
16. fly to new york
17. apply for midwifery school
18. buy some really awesome shoes
19. go on a camping trip with friends
20. new camera
21. perfect my hand-stand
22. get business cards
23. become a traveling street punk kid
24. start a band
25. publish a new zine
26. start nico’s college fund
27.

some jokes, simple to-dos, true expressions. a little heart breaking to consider all that we really want with our one life.

more later.

29 before 30

next year i will be 30. pause.
inspired from elsiecake at a beautiful mess, i am attempting to reach 29 goals before 30. unfortunately (or not) the only one i am certain about at this time is that i want to get a tattoo. wink.
this post is my commitment to come up with 28 more goals so that i can start crossing them off the list. be back with more soon.

above is nico, who has to accomplish 2 goals before 3.

nico in his room

when almost-two year old’s clean up their own room.
he actually was just left along in his room for,like, 1.5 minutes. fast little chimp.

looking towards summer

another month until summer solstice, it is so warm here in the sip. i am looking towards summer and preparing for the heat. buggy nights and the summer cicada buzz that fills the air and makes sleep feel like a very temporary proposition. except on those days that you spend at the river and are too exhausted to do anything other than sleep or smooch.
theo at the creek in wiggins last july.

photo shoot

i recently made a few onsies for easter- i wanted to document them and also be able to put them up on etsy. and i wanted some cute photos of my not-so-willing model. minutes before our “photo shoot”, i gave nic his first hair cut so he was a little freaked out.
here are a few of the cute ones…
 he was really only happy once i brought his radio flyer roadster out.

the following photo is right before a total melt down. you can see it coming right? whose hand is holding him back? and from what?

probably from running straight into dog poo or something.

check it here: my etsy shoop
more coming soon!

no words

at the park

nico and his friend pepper at the new fondren park. snacking. of course.
they be cute.

and they love chinese chocolate cookies.

mississippi goddam

medgar evers blvd. west jackson.
photos taken from the car because my son was in the back seat.

now open.

cobra at the delta mart.

wee land. now accepting utility bills.

the word full gospel baptist church. (no church today.)

medgar evers blvd. this is the road that you have to drive down if you want to apply for food stamps in hinds county. above are some of the places that you may pass on the way there. you must first cross over woodrow wilson bridge and on into west jackson. veer right onto medgar evers blvd.
all places have history but you don’t always know the stories. mississippi, and jackson in particular, has a well-documented history. because of the civil war. because of the civil rights movement. it is interesting to live in a place where so much is known about what the past so specifically held.

you can read about medgar evers here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers

this little light of mine

nico discovers candles. he got very excited during dinner one night this week about the candle on the table.



cute.