Flying

Photo of J on his first plane ride.

The babies and I will be en route to Mississippi today (Tuesday), so please excuse the light posting! As soon as I recover from flying by myself with two kiddos ages 3 and under I'll be back with updates, ;D

We're super excited about visiting Mamaw and Papaw, but totally sad about parting with Taro. He's headed to a work conference in Chicago while we're down south. This will be the first time since W's birth that any of us have spent a night apart. Hopefully the fun we have on our respective journeys will sustain us through the pangs of missing each other. Wah! Looking forward to Sunday, when we'll meet again...

Seven Years Ago Today

And now you are mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.

Love and pain and work should all sleep now.

The night turns on its invisible wheels

And you are pure beside me as a sleeping amber

No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams.

You will go, we will go together, over the waters of time.

No one else will travel through the shadows with me,

Only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.

--Excerpt from And Now You Are Mine (Love Sonnet LXXXI) by Pablo Neruda

Photos by Robert Mayer and Shannon O'hara.

Yesterday: Prada, Legos, and The Top of The Rock

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, EVERYONE!!!

Happy Long Weekend + Link Love

Photo via Flickr

I hope that whatever your weekend has in store that it is filled with love and magic. We are looking forward to a laid-back NYC 4th of July, most likely including picnics in the park and a view of the big fireworks show from the roof deck of our apartment building. Taro and I have a special day planned for Monday, which is our seventh wedding anniversary! I look forward to sharing some of the details when I return to the blog on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, here are a bunch of links to things that caught my attention on the interwebs this week...

Things random and wonderful:

What Andrea has to say to her 17-year-old-self

The ultimate Little Black Dress

Bookshelf Porn and Librarians going Gaga

A totally injeanius invention

The Hipster Fashion Cycle

A new (and amazing-looking) bike shop opens in Brooklyn

Things Birthy:

Independent Women Will Be Cut

The High Cost of Caesareans

Questioning ACOG

Things Parenty:

Did babywearing play a crucial role in human evolution?

Great reasons to wear your baby

Thoughts on surrender

Then & Now

February, 2009

July 2010

10 Months

Victory!

Photos from the Free Our Midwives Photo Project.

I am beyond excited to share the news that the Midwifery Modernization Act passed in the State Assembly and Senate this week, making home birth legal in New York again! Read more about this exciting news, as well as more information about the amazing grass-roots campaign that resulted in this exciting triumph for birth rights, at FreeOurMidwives.org.