getting murried under a large homemade tipi

...has its logistical challenges

party time

THREE DAYS! it is pretty fun getting ready for a wedding to your bff with your bff.

we have a new first place for parental nightmare porn

"Dang Moua...saw dozens of ragged orphaned children in the forest, eating leaves and dirt. He gave them food but walked on past. His wife found a baby, less than a year old, trying to nurse from the breast of its dead mother. They walked past it, too."
--Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (163).

her voice sounded like she had cut out her lungs with a knife and eaten them

i dreamt last night that i wrote that sentence (among other things i don't remember). i don't know what it means exactly but it's sure been stuck in my head all day.

our first hit

the following is a collaborative effort from sarah n david. we have recently discovered that if singsonged in a very sincere and magical tone (don't be afraid to get a little british with it), our girl can often be knocked straight into dreamland.

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plum puddings
and tucker butters
and cellar doors
and forest floors
and pretty maids all in a row

fin

just like a prayer you know i'll take you there

sometimes our girl has a real hard time falling asleep. she turns into a wicked wild thing (which i secretly love) and fights sleep kicking and screaming till the gruesome end. this will be v charming when she's a toddler! as her mama it is my top job to help escort her into sleep. it usually involves a finely tuned assortment of pacing, pacifier, jiggling, calm "vibes," rocking, soothing words, and swinging (all at once, obv). but the one thing that really never fails is madonna's "like a prayer." it must truly sound "like angels sighing" to our girl because it knocks her right out.

recently david was presented with a poster of madonna in the nude by a friend of his whose girlfriend had moved in, you know how that goes. before seeing the poster i proposed that we hang it above our bed. we were both excited about this prospect. but then david brought it home and it was just too classy! i thought it was going to be a TITSTITSTITS poster with MADONNA in big letters across the top, but it was actually a very tastefully done little portrait and somehow that made it unacceptable for placement above our bed. it's complicated. instead we put it in sho's room because we decided that she is probably the biggest tits man of all in this house.

places where the pace is just a little slower

-the south
-fabric stores
-don's card hut