Raspberries (Journal from March)

Consolidating my journal to my blog - this entry from March:

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Happy Friday. Happy Friday indeed. I ventured into the realm of limb waxing today. Sounds exotic, but just means I waxed my arms. And for free she threw in a finger wax. I didn't even realize I had hair on my fingers. It wasn't even really visible, but hey why not give it a whirl. I'm like a hairless cat. Not really but I did flash on The Forty Year Old Virgin.

Murray and I discussing moving to New Zealand. Or Seattle. Or Los Angeles. Or Columbus. Or Folsom. Somewhere safe. Somewhere clean. Somewhere walkable. Somewhere with good museums and zoos for Grey. Somewhere we can feel connected. And therein lies our conundrum.

I sent my mom some groceries today. It felt good to help her. I have a thing with food and caring being one in the same.

Greyson update: new word "bye" two mornings ago as Murray was leaving for work. Sounds more like "bubbah". Grey has been trying for a while, but first time successfully gave me tummy raspberries tonight. We were both cracking up. He was trying to extend time of not going to bed, but still adorable. When I was done at the European Wax Center and walking over to the little cafe place to meet up with Murray and Grey, I was very excited to see my son had missed me and was extending his little arm out to greet me, egging me forward to come and hold him. That melted my heart. As much as Grey wanted me (and vice versa), in that moment, Grey gets equally as insistent about Murray sometimes, especially when he first gets home from work.

Grey trying to babble more and practice talking. More easily bored and is a tornado siren when he first wakes (cancel that because he FIRST wakes and climbs into bed with us at least a couple hours before getting up for the morning), until he gets his cereal snacks and milk. He loves his morning bananas, and has been saying "mmm, yum!" to my breakfast smoothies lately. This week's Smoothie: frozen peaches, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, banana, avocado, fat free plain greek yogurt, uncooked old fasioned oats, chia seeds, and sugar free non dairy vanilla creamer. Yum.