Pure Gravy: April 2009

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Me (singing): High on a hill was a lonely goatherd, lay-di-oh, lay-di-oh, lay-di-oh!

Immy: Who sings that song?

Me: Maria…from The Sound of Music…the governess…who takes care of the children.

Immy: Julie Andrews sings it.

Women who breastfeed their babies may be lowering their own risk of a heart attack, heart disease or stroke, research suggests.

A US study found women who breastfed for more than a year were 10% less likely to develop the conditions than those who never breastfed.

Even breastfeeding for at least a month may cut the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

On average, it had been 35 years since the women [in the study of 140,000] had last breastfed - suggesting the beneficial impact lasts for decades.

BBC News | Health

"I have flowers in my hair."

Friday

Then

Now

Celebrating two years of Pure Gravy!

Imogen, just shy of 3, on the Olympic Discovery Adventure Trail, April 7

We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store

and the gas station and the green market and

Hurry up, honey, I say, hurry, hurry,

as she runs along two or three steps behind me

her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down

as she likes them.

Where do I want to hurry her to? To her grave?

To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?

Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her

Honey, I’m sorry I keep saying Hurry—you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.

And hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking

back at me, laughing. Hurry up now, darling, she says

hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.