Oh how I love laying with Ruby, listening to her squeaks and nasaly inhales and exhales. She instinctively curls toward me, comforted just by the presence of my soul. She’s changing so quickly…it seems just when I wrap my mind around a development, she’s on to something else.

When we lay together, her excitedly gulping down milk until she passes out with a full belly, I am connected to the universe. She and I alone are sturdy but we’re more than that. We are wrapped together with my mom and grandmas, woven tight with all mamas into a big, thick, beautiful braid that is so strong it supports the world.
My second born. My last baby.

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Beautiful. 🙂
Happy weekend to you and your family.
Not to sound like a 90-year old great-grandma, but: cherish, cherish, cherish these days. (sounds like you already are).
The most precious thing e.v.e.r. !!!
i’m due in a few weeks and your posts make me so incredibly excited to enjoy these amazing moments.
your children are beautiful!
i can’t believe how quickly it all goes by . . . sniff . . . my second is not even born and i’m already bemoaning the quick passage of time! such a beauty.
it’s been so great to read/hear/see about your experience . . . makes me so excited. xoxo
You capture beautiful moments and make them even more beautiful. thank you!
it’s funny how we record the BIG things … like first steps and words … but its these gulps and swallows and coos and goos that i’m going to miss the most someday.
Just lovely…I so completely understand! My baby just started crawling this week- each new development is wonderful, but also a little sad in a way it wasn’t with my first daughter-we just have to SOAK IN that sweet baby time.
Ellie
i cried. i did. this is beautiful and oh, how i relate to your words. thank you for being the woman you are. you make us better.
love that baby. she is amazing. love. womanhood. strength.
lol, i’m all in this serious mind set, all earthy, loving my own last baby probably and then…
“we invented post-its!” romy lies to her classmates.
romy and michelle’s high school reunion is on….lol, made me laugh!
xo heidi
Thank you so much for this. After a crazy week with a sick two-year-old, I am reminded to pause and savor the moments of feeling the growing babe in my belly kicking away. Each stage of their development is so precious and it goes by so fast.
P.S. I love your daughters’ names!!!
I feel the same every time I’m with my six month old little girl. We are so in sync and I am so in love.
I was wondering if you used a macro to shoot that hand pic, or which lens you used.
BTW, love your blog.
Jaime
http://georgia365.blogspot.com/
I am in tears, beautiful photos, beautiful words from my beautiful daughter who is a beautiful mother…. “We are wrapped together with my mom and grandmas, woven tight with all mamas into a big, thick, beautiful braid that is so strong it supports the world.
My second born. My last baby.”
it’s been awhile since i’ve visited, but i sure did enjoy catching up!! so much, in fact, that my little dude got his own snack, shredded cheese, out of the fridge and spilled it on the floor (eating it off the floor, of course) and i just kept on reading away!
and did i mention i burned two quesadillas in the process, too? not one, but two! so that says it all, your writing just gets me!
love your writing and earthy outlook …
so poignant, the thought of Ruby being your last baby. i remember that… looking at my little guy, knowing he would be my last…
he’ll be 18 next sunday. time flies sooooooo fast. i remember thinking that i would mourn the time that he could fit into a chair with me, and we could read together. And I do. i love and adore my 6 foot tall young man, but oh! that lanky little boy… what a love. his head smelly deliciously of fresh air and sunshine in the summer… i still smell the heads of both he and his sister when i can get them close (and low) enough. neither of them live here anymore. but I have my daughter’s small boy with me, and i smell his sunshiny head. nostalgia and melancholy… so powerful. And he still fits in the chair with me. for now.
i love your blog so much. truly beautiful.
Gramomster, I so enjoy your comments! Oh yes the sunshiney head. Amazing how the feathery, whispy hair holds smells so differently from adult hair.
Jaime, I only have the ‘kit’ lens with my camera: 18-55 mm. Oh how I WISH I had a macro!
Such sweet and beautiful words!
As i type one-handed trying to swing my two week daughter to sleep and she gets quiet as i read she looks up at me and says with the wise eyes of childhood -slow down and look at me. your blog reminds us all to do the same.
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