12.01.2012

laundry day

Folding Zu's cat-print teal pants today, I was brought back to those early days before she came, when I spent hours folding and refolding, organizing and reorganizing her closet and dresser of never-worn (at least by her) baby clothes, in anticipation of holding that squirmy little baby for the first time. I had a lot of dream-baby notions but didn't know anything about the real thing--though oh so loved that cottony-pink happy-dream-baby. So much better to know and love the real thing--because Zu is the type of baby who of course wears cat-print teal pants--its just her style--and that is the type of thing it took a few months to get, and a year to get even better. As much as I savor the dream-baby stage of pregnancy--what gender, what color eyes, will this one take after Me this time...--I so look forward to getting to know this little person.

5 comments:

  1. Did you hear Jessica Simpson is pregnant again? She just gave birth to her first baby in May! I feel like young women our age have babies closer and closer together now.

    P.S. Teal cat pants are totally Zuzu's style! So cute. :)

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  2. i saw that on suri's burn book; i'd be interested in seeing a study/ statistics on that. its hard to know if we have a good outside/total perspective on it, since we have babies and are growing our familes, so its stuff we hear/pay attention to more than those that aren't. and i think being in the southern christian community, there's more of that going on than in the north.

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  3. That's very possible! Even though I'm not pregnant, I always notice pregnancy, too, for some reason.

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  4. Hey, Renee, I'm here to say I just read your poem at Stirring ("It is Well") and I love it, just love it. Great work!

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  5. thanks so much Molly!

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