I remember being a person out in the world, accomplishing tasks, getting things done. I loved the satisfaction of checking things off my list– tick, tick, tick. Whether it was work, writing, errands, projects, I enjoyed the life of a fairly efficient person. Now an entire day can go by and I feel I have [...]
Entries from April 27th, 2009
Two Poems
April 27th, 2009 No Comments
Last spring while I was deep in the Baby Cave, I somehow managed to write 2 poems. They aren’t anything extraordinary, as poems go– the extraordinary act was that I wrote them at all. Recently, they were published on Mothering.com. If you’re in a poetry mood, you can read them below: Rivers Let’s Name [...]
Tags: Mothering.com · poetry
Reading List
April 20th, 2009 No Comments
Here are the books stacked on my desk, piled on my bedside table, weighing down my bag. Here are the books I’m reading all at once, a chapter at a time, at night or at naptime, listed in no particular order: She Got Up Off The Couch- Haven Kimmel Pushed: The Painful Truth About [...]
Water the Garden
April 20th, 2009 No Comments
Mid-April and the pink Daphne is in full-bloom. My daffodils are still buds about to pop. A. turns on the hose by herself and waters the dry perennial garden. She likes the Tree Peony poking up its reddish fronds. I’m always amazed how bright and dry April can be, no leaf cover to [...]
Who Does She Think She Is
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past year? For me, it wasn’t Slumdog Millionaire, which was riveting but shocked me with its gruesome child torture scenes. My husband and I went to Slumdog on a rare date night and for some reason were expecting a light comedy– we nearly walked out. Instead, I [...]
Tags: Creativity · motherhood · movie · Sylvia Plath · Who Does She Think She Is · Writing
Eggs in the Sun
April 13th, 2009 No Comments
We seized a window of weather opportunity and had our Easter egg hunt early– on Friday afternoon in the spring sunshine. Given that it was 32 degrees, brutally windy and blowing snow on Easter Sunday, I’d say we made the right choice. T. remarked that Easter is the perfect girl holiday: bunnies, baskets, baby chicks [...]
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Garden Girl
April 10th, 2009 No Comments
I’m ready to garden, hungry to get my hands in the dirt. A. wants to play Owl and the Pussycat Have a Tea-party. We settle on making mudpies in the still-empty annual herb bed, where I’ll plant basil, cilantro, dill, parsley, calendula, and if I have room, nasturtiums. “This is MY garden,” she tells me. [...]
Tags: Garden
Yoga Baby
April 10th, 2009 No Comments
Back then she was nearly 8 months old and I taught Mama-Baby Yoga in our home studio. The class was total chaos, babies crawling and toddling everywhere while their mothers tried to practice dynamic vinyasa yoga and stay with their breath in the present moment. Melt-downs, nursing breaks, brawls over toys… interspersed with rare moments of [...]
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Girls, Girls, Girls…
April 10th, 2009 No Comments
Finally, something harmless advertising “Girls Girls Girls” On the porch with A. and C. March in VT, snow in the background. Grass is brown but air is warm, promise of spring on the wind.
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Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself
April 10th, 2009 No Comments
You can call me Diana Whitney, the poet formerly known as Diana Sabot. My 3-and -a-half year old daughter, whom I’ll refer to as A., now calls me “Diana” too. As in, “Hey Diana? You know my friend Hello Kitty?” Sometimes she still calls me “Mommy”, but we’ve entered a new phase of self-expression and [...]
Tags: preschooler