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  • Milkshakes for GiGi, Martinis for Mommy

     

    This weekend was busy. Crazy and chaotic with a side of “ew” at times.  My Friday morning hint at this arrived in the form of a ditzy drive-thru barista who forgot to hand me a straw with my light coffee blended frothy goodness, that I didn’t realize until I merged onto the freeway.  Aghhh!   Keeping with my attempt to make things more positive in karma land, I kindly unstrapped my 1 yr old who at that point thought it was time to get out for good, and walked inside to let them know that next time they should consider passing out straws with their cold beverages. 

     

    Once we got to the bay area, we stopped in Orinda to grab a house key from one of the best friends, Lea.  I threw her baby shower this weekend (thank you Dina!) and needed to unload 206 tons of rubber duck paraphernalia while she was workin’ it up at her company.  I’d like to thank her bosses for encouraging my portly state of being, by offering GiGi and I the best milkshakes ever.  We went with a little F’real mint chip action and before I could get my camera out, my little ice cream monster had already dove in, fist first, to the cup before her.  I thought I would go with the flow and let her feed herself, but in retrospect, I gave her a lot more hand-to-mouth credit than I should have.  We got ice cream everywhere.   Sticky hands, sticky table, sticky mommy, sticky eyelids, sticky 5-foot radius…

     

     

     

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Love is Blind

Megg Lasswell in Oakland.

This single mom moved home at age twenty-seven to raise her blind toddler, leaving city buildings behind and trying her best to embrace farm life outside Oakland. She is working on her first book in between indie-rocking out with her daughter GiGi and teaching her the simple things in life.

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