Friday ::
Posted on | August 8, 2008 | 6 Comments
* An iced decaf latte tasted good today. This is miraculous.
* Bought orchids for my new studio space (we’re shuffeling rooms, repainting, etc.)
* My pants no longer fit, but I’m not really showing. In other words, I look chubby around my middle. So attractive. It’s all about the bella band now.
* Am excited to watch the Olympics tonight. They always get me motivated to do sports and to take better care of myself. Ironically–last time I was watching the summer Olympics, Bean was in my tummy.
* Bean used the words “actually” and “absolutely” in the same sentence today. It made me giggle. Now he’s digging gravel on the driveway with the geese looking on.
* I’ve decided all the little things matter. In a year from now I’ll forget what being pregnant was like. For the next little while, I’ll be focusing on minutia 
and perhaps starting to draw every day objects again. It’s somehow very grounding to bring my attention back to the little things. To take notice of food, small moments, errands, conversations.
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I am Christina Rosalie
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I am a multimedia storyteller, digital strategist, idea starter, stalker of wonder, finder of four leaf clovers, MFA graduate student, and mama of boys. My first book,
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August 8th, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Bella bands are the way to go! They held up (and smoothed out) my pregnancy pants all the way to the end.
August 9th, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
i love this micro blogging! so nice to hear from you so often!
August 9th, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
I absolutely LOVE when, in the act of acquiring language, children discover adverbs. My younger daughter has built her life around the use of the word “actually” — and has done so since age 3. For so long, their language is all nouns (ball) or pronouns (mine!) or prepositions (Up!) or interjections (NO!). I love watching the act of language development — little minds trying on phrases like hats, spilling out ideas like blocks across the floor. Discovering verbs and adverbs that run across the room with their words. “Taste that juice.” “Hold kitty, please.” and then, all of a sudden, you have a child who says “Actually, I wanted the other juice” and then a pre-teen who tells you long rambling stories that end with an insight or a pun or a quip like “well, you don’t see THAT every day!”
I’m glad that you’re feeling better. With my first pregnancy, the queasiness crept away slowly, a bit earlier in the day each day until the 8-5 nausea was 8-4, 8-3, and slowly, it dissipated into ravenous hunger. With the second, it literally went away overnight. I was so afraid to eat, that first day I felt good, figuring that I would be throwing up all night and that it was a fluke. By that evening, though, I figured that I would go for it and pay the piper later. Funny, that particular piper never came.
Hang in there.
August 11th, 2008 @ 3:09 am
Finally home, and catching up! Love this :
August 11th, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
Glad to see you refocusing on the minutia again … one’s soul, I’ve come to believe, is in the content of those minutia — and growing a baby clearly requires nothing so much as soul.
August 12th, 2008 @ 8:41 am
I’m catching up, too – I love it when you focus on the details – and I am eager for a return to your art – hooray!