Day 78----

My fingers are sore from all this stitching but I feel nice and smugly resourceful and ridiculously proud of how beautiful it will be. If I ever finish... there are a lot of holes that need to be patched on both sides each.

She's been sleeping in the real bed for three days now and, aside from falling off the first night (didn't even wake up when I lifted her back up)-- that was actually funny. I had just checked on her and was telling jesse to go see how sweet and grown up she looked. He came back to our room and said, "uh our sweet little baby is on the floor..." But aside from that she hasn't even got out of bed at all. She still calls us to come get her! ....harking back to the other day's subject of rebel moms, compliant children thing...

All morning we snuggled on the couch and looked at photos and videos of her as a baby and also baby birds.

I finished reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe aloud to her. Her first chapter read aloud--I feel a little sheepish that it was by a man. And it has made me realize that chapter books from my childhood are going to be a lot more time consuming to vet for sexism and racism than picture books were. I'm going to need a lot of help with this. Just flipping through books from my past to find the next one to read to her is turning my stomach a bit. And it's not enough to just not have issues. They need to be womanist and anti-racist too.