A Mindful Life

I usually recap the previous year by posting the first sentence written here for each month. Here is the one for 2007. I thought I’d done it previous years to that, but I can’t find it in the archives.
January: My day isn’t over yet.
February: Claire napped four times yesterday, only 30 minutes each.
March: From [...]

My mother-in-law arrived today and we had Christmas again. I caught this shot and decided it was one to share.

I’m leaving soon to go see my friend in Oakland. I uploaded a bunch of photos and videos to Flickr for friends & family to see. Claire enjoyed Christmas immensely. Here’s one photo to tide you over.

After reading three different versions of The Night Before Christmas about 20 times each today (which I did willingly and happily), sweet Claire is now asleep. She is too young to understand who Santa is or what Christmas is really about, but our little parrot spent the day repeating Santa and (with prompting) Merry Christmas. [...]

Please go take a look. Puts things in perspective.

I just learned today that my good friend who has a two-month-old baby (Baby G) was in a bad car accident on Saturday. Her baby is fine and so is her husband, but she was moved to a hospital in Oakland for surgery. She has a smashed kneecap, a smashed tibia, a broken rib, and [...]

It’s been entirely too long since I’ve sat down to write. Claire’s four molars are still cutting, and when she’s awake she is clingy with me. But she has changed remarkably — every day there is greater comprehension, and we are astonished. I want to make a note of this, so here’s a quick list.

One [...]

My love.

If you can’t see the video here, you can see it here.

We were so busy today. Claire loves to “cook soup” and pretend to eat off the spoon. I take sips from the spoon too. She then feeds her stuffed animals. Every time she has a taste she says, “mmMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm!” She looks so proud of herself when she stirs. This afternoon she plunked herself in the [...]

Claire finally went down for a nap. I now can:
a) take a snooze on the sofa myself.
b) try to accomplish the 12,345 things on my list.
c) eat some sugared walnuts to manage stress.
d) b & c
There are no other choices. Pick one. The answer is worth 100 points.