Everything is feeling more like fall, which might be my favorite season. The days start to shorten and promise holidays soon. All that harvest from the garden after a season of cultivation and doting. I love other seasons too…perhaps it is that I am a four-season gal. I need those three month windows into unique environments and moods to shake up my perspective on the world.
:: A crazy wind storm sprinted through Missoula last weekend. I opened all of our windows and let it clean our house. I swear it just blew in and ousted the hot, stale air and stirred everything up like a wild bibbity bobbity boo and new dust and air settled that smelled and looked clean. Do I sound like a crazy hippie? If you answered yes you are in agreement with my husband.
:: Tiny eggs in the hen house mean Lindsay and Paige are laying!
:: My little pie helper. Mama, cooking she says with great joy. A few other adorable new words/exchanges: ccccuuuuutttte when she spies something cute like pajamas or a frog; a shockingly articulate vagina; she is obsessed with birthdays because we have gone to one of her friend’s birthday parties like every other week this summer so she daily asks, birthday? pony? (one party had pony rides. you should click on that link. um, yeah, they set the bar pretty high) and then I say, when is your birthday? and she says, full of pride, December!
I almost didn’t post this photo cause I am all chubs pregnant, I mean those arms…but, I love it and the moment nonetheless. I have a lot of time to be non-chubs pregnant so I will enjoy it and my body. I have to remember I am growing another human...so awesome.
Alice is always within a lunge of Margot *just in case* something falls.
:: The goddamn best pregnant lady cocktail there is. My mom introduced it to me and it has rocked my world this summer: bootleg minus the leg. puree: 1/3 limeade concentrate and heaps of fresh mint, serve over ice with 2/3 soda water. I uncontrollably gulp down the first glass and always have another to sip in a more civilized manner.
:: Bug likes to pick out her own shoes these days.
:: River City Roots Festival last weekend meant everyone up way past their bedtime. Margot danced and danced and danced in the street with her friends. I love just hauling her along to things we enjoyed before she existed, like a concert. It’s a whole new and exciting experience to watch her love this life.
:: Margot suddenly totally gets that I am pregnant and, a few times a day, asks to see my belly and then stares at it and hugs it and whispers baby and then kisses my skin and then I say you’re going to be a sister and she says yep. sister.
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YAHOO HUMP DAY NUGGETS are here!
Margot you will be one super big sister! I can’t wait to see you with her….a life time pal that will always be there for you. And WOW can you shake a leg!
Good for you Paige & Linds…..no doubt your eggs are show quality!
Nici I so love that you are having a baby. I also love watching you grow into such a beautiful mother.
It won’t be long now…..I love you!
xoxo Mom/Gram
It’s great, last night I thought “oh, yeah, tomorrow new nuggets from Nici!” So you have me hooked. I have my first cuppa joe right here and gulped the blog down first.
Along with the saga I am loving your photos.
Have the best time ever in Portland. Man, I am so envious.
you have no idea how much i look forward to these now. i even peeked last night thinking your super productive awesomeness maybe had a headstart on the humpday.
you are beautiful pregnant. handsdown, you hippie.
and good lord have mercy…the tippy toes picture. touche.
xoxo…makin’ pies with you this week! send some montana wind, baby.
Oh this last pic! Just about made me burst out in tears…. so sweet. Can’t wait until I can say the same words to miss annica.
I love your perspective on your body and you look just like a healthy prego lady should. Beautiful.
September, oh I love september. The energy in the air, the light changing, the fullness of a lazy days combined with an urgentness to get ready for winter.
Saw a job in Helena that I just about applied for. But, my little life in SLC is pretty sweet right now. Maybe our future will hold more open wide spaces in montana or oregon, but for now we are relishing the our urban oasis.
Oh, and I too look forward to your hump day nuggets…wonderful and lovely.
Nici~ I love this post!! I love the way you cleaned your house, your kitchen colors, your kitchen helper, Margot’s language (one of Poppy’s favorite words for a while was ‘ta-china’…sound a bit familiar?!)and just a window into your world in general! Thanks for sharing….take care! xxooxo
Margot is just adorable! I don’t have any kiddos yet but desperatly want them and reading about your happy home and family makes me want them even more! I think you’re truely living the dream! Contratulations!
nici…i love your blog and how your write and your images…the wind blowing through the house is just amazing!
Fall is my favorite too. Portland gets this fabulous golden light that makes everything look warm and colorful during these days. Can’t wait to get outside with Oscar – just as soon as this body feels closer to normal!
The last photo gave me chills.
You are one glowingly gorgeous woman!
We are living parallel lives with the anatomically correct vocab thing.
And fall is mos def my favorite season. Here’s to it!
Loving these nugs and my new ritual of checking them out in the morning (at work, yes, but still, a well-deserved break!). xo
Love that Bug!!!
I’m with you on the wind. Right now I’m waiting for it to cool down below the 93 degrees (I know, September) so I can blow out the house from the salsa fumes-Hubs mad a huge batch out of last year’s home-canned tomatoes.
I adore Margot’s growing vocabulary. Also, you’re your own worst critic. That picture is damn sweet. Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful post. Thanks for making my hump day better! I love that bug really wears the sweater all the time.
Crazy hippie!
I totally agree – let the wind clean the house, because I sure as hell am not doing it.
Bug’s the cutest. That photo is so sweet. And I love Ms. Alice, just right there under the stool. I imagine she’s protecting Margot rather than waiting for a snack.
A girl can dream…
The lemon drink looks lovely! I have been experimenting with ginger drinks lately, it seems that when I lay down at night I’ve got acid reflux.
So I tried this old recipe for Ginger Water that I got from the Little House on the Prairie cookbook. The girls and I are nuts about Little house on the prairie (the books anyway) and I would recommend them to any little girls or little girls at heart.
Anywho. Ginger Water was a precursor to Ginger Ale and was often made with a tad of apple cider vinegar. I like it that way, but with lemonade is good too! I’m going to try it with the mixture you posted.
Lovely, lovely post. Soak it all in and keep writing about it darlin’.
Lovely, lovely post. Soak it all in and keep writing about it darlin’.
Love that you bring margot with you for to all the things you used to do pre-babies 😀 I wanna be a mama like that someday too 🙂
Love that you bring margot with you for to all the things you used to do pre-babies 😀 I wanna be a mama like that someday too 🙂
NOT KIDDING HERE…swear to the good lord…i totally believe in the whole, open the windows and the let the good, clean, fresh air kick the crap out of the nasty, unhealthy air. so do it. glad someone else feels the same way i do. i thought i was nuts.
dog protecting baby…are you kidding me? amazing.
your drink sounds great and your belly (and arms) are beautiful!
True Story: someone flipped my little day calendar early and I looked at it this morning and thought “Nuggets!” Alas, it is only Tuesday.
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