Perpetual State of Flux

katiebakes:

brownmfa:

I’m getting my fill of abandoned gas stations. I just finished lunch at this one in Toyah. Not much else in town. Everything is closed and abandoned. I had to go to a house to get my water bottles filled. The first house I went to a woman was outside with a red wagon. I asked and she went inside. A few minutes later she came out with a bag of frozen water bottles. She took my empties and went back inside. When she came out she said, “Mountain Water.” She never asked what I was doing. I think she might have been psychic. As I was leaving she said, “God Bless.” The water was the best I’ve tasted all trip.

This guy is walking across the country. He’s almost through Texas. What are you up to these days?

(via biteofpythias)

I don’t know. How many Canadians know how to spell Czechoslovakia?

Not feeling so hot. Decided it was time to pack the bag for the hospital. Despite reading numerous packing lists…this is the hardest packing job ever. Nothing seems right. Seems absolutely impossible to be prepared!

ETA: Nothing is happening. Just getting prepared.  (They told us in birthing class to pack at 36 weeks).

I’ve been looking at books for the young man’s library and came across Michael Bond’s Paddington series - a favorite of mine as a child.  I then found this little bear and have convinced myself that I have to have it.  Although, if I’m being honest, this one is way more for me than him.  Can you tell that I’m having a really ROUGH week?

officiallymymother:

ORANGE STRIPED TOMS WEDGES … yes please.

clickety-click

Me too, please!

imremembering:

Hello

(Remembered by ruthannsimages) 

AMAZING!!

Has anyone found a baby book they absolutely love?

As part of our journey into adulthood, we recently purchased a new kitchen/dining room table with the hopes of starting a tradition of dining around a table instead of how we’ve spent the last eight years with plates in our laps on the sofa.  

This morning two large Eastern European men arrived to deliver the table.  As I wrote a check for the balance remaining on the table (who knew places still had C.O.D) the larger of the two men started asking me the usual questions…when are you due, is this your first, etc…

He then launched into description of his own children and how much they’ve changed his life and how wonderful it is to have children.

It’s funny, I love this tumblr community of new and expectant mothers — I love reading about all the triumphs and the struggles — but I have to say that nothing quite gets me as watching a man talk about his children and seeing him absolutely reduced to his most vulnerable place.  From furniture delivery guys to cab drivers passing their cell phones through the plexiglass to show me albums of their families, there are few things like witnessing that fatherly love and pride.  

I have about two dozen posts I’ve been meaning to write and I thank you all for not removing me from your followers in my absence.  I am definitely going to get on the ball here in the next couple of the days.  In the meantime, I heard this song on Music Choice today.  I had completely forgotten about this one and figured it was time to bring it back to the collective consciousness!

(Had to google the lyrics when I thought they were talking about a “big fatty”.  Nope, big fanny but not like Annie…)

Dolly, Oprah and Kenny just sang “The Gambler”.