a few shots from my last visit to oakland. M and i visited new coffeehouse called bica, where they feature ed’s yummy coffee. at the top, that’s a pour-over cup of temple ethiopia yirgacheffe and a butternut squash chocolate chip muffin ala indie cakes. we also sat in a 7o-and-sunny-degree window and shared a meyer lemon curd muffin. mmm.
see me in the mirror in the shot of M? hee hee. hello.
sometimes i think they’re posing just for me. i really do.
also surely just for me:
i’ve been staying up way too late. but what else can i do? i know sleep is supposed to restorative, but isn’t finding time to write and daydream restorative too?
i think our heater finally crapped out after being on the fritz for awhile. ’tis gonna be a cold night (although 40 degrees isn’t so bad …). nonetheless, so glad ed and the space heater are so warm.
clyde turned eight on thursday, and we’ve been partying down with chocolate desserts, including the cake above, every day since. last party was today with a few of his friends, pizza, TJ’s dutch cocoa and chocolate chip brownies, and vanilla ice cream.
eight years ago i was a new mom with a newborn baby, sobbing every other minute with hormonal shifts. i was flailing, adoring, fragile, and completely completely love struck but totally new to the feelings around all of it. it’s so hard to remember the me i was back then, the me without all that i have experienced and become since then.
sure, it’s crazy to think of your once-newborn baby turning eight, but possibly even more mind boggling to go back in your mind to the person you once were and consider that she didn’t know, not an inkling, all the places she was going to get to go. she didn’t know all the things that baby and later his brother and all the life in between was going to teach her. i didn’t know…
when clyde was new, i remember constantly telling myself it was all going to pass by so quickly and to really try to be present and take it all in. to hold each moment like breath. hold it deep. remember. really really remember. but nonetheless, it just kept on slipping away.
off to go sniff my babies’ heads and hold in the breaths as long as i can.
great blue heron. it’s a wonder they can lift those giant wings into flight, isn’t it? i love how this came out like a painting.
and:
what about you? you been flying?
stealing this year in review idea from shari. this recapping business is fun (although mine’s not half as artful as hers!).
lots of milestones this year, a little travel, a lot of birdwatching, tons of coffee + tea, and so much good food. you may have seen some of these here or on flickr before. others i’m sharing here for the first time.
here’s to a pretty dang pretty 2010!
january
7 + rollerskating
baby R
february
mom retires (photo by guest)
sf trip with E
annual family beach trip
mom 2.0 in houston
(here with T, M, M + M; photo by meredith winn)
my “chocolate cake” in mom 2.0 art exhibit
(left photo by meredith winn)
march
smoothie obsession
spring blooms
baseball
overnighter with S + martha’s show at rare device
birds
sf with M
april
vernal pools
may
peony
oakland + cafe 504 with M
family trip to tahoe
june
sf with K + M
keep going for july through december.
today is pretty 