Want me to be your doula?

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Blossoming: April Showers Bring May Babies, Placenta Plum Trees, and Flowers

The past few weeks:
New life blooming...lots of busy prenatal days with blossoming mamas. On-call now for a couple of anticipated births.

Sun showers, fresh flowers, new glorious color, SUNSHINE!..
Farmer's Market in full bloom. We rode down on our bikes on the first 70 degree day of the year. Lovely.
Spring in the NW.
We appreciate it more here since it is gray and rainy 80% of the year. But when the sun starts coming out, it brings the city to life again.

Planting, growing, budding, blooming...
Emmaus's plum tree we planted with his placenta on his 9 month birthday! The neighbors came over to join in the blessed occasion.
Placenta in the hole!


Emmaus helped throw in the dirt.And he really liked to eat the dirt.Shawn is reading him the blessing that he wrote for him on the day of his birth.But Emmaus just really wanted to swing from the branches of his plum tree.Our back yard.
Re-birth, digging in the dirt for the first time in my life!
My farm-girl roommate thinks it's hilarious that this is the first time I've planted anything. Ever. We planted 2 different kinds of peas, kale, spinach, more kale, all kinds of stuff...
Betsy and Shawn built that chicken coop. Pretty sweet. It's amazing to me that out of these tiny seeds we get a CROP of amazing food.
I'm such a city girl, I didn't even know how potatoes were grown until 2 years ago.

0 comments: