Jasiri

Yesterday Nia and I took a trip to the library.  My intention was to arrive in time for the toddler storytime hour.  Didn’t happen.  I did however have a wonderful conversation with another mother, and Nia enjoyed doing her speed crawl across the kids section of the library.

What’s so amazing about my life right now is the subject of my conversations.  I find myself talking about Nia constantly.  I’m pretty certain its annoying to some people.  But yesterday me and the other mom, Phaedra, talked constantly about our children…and I don’t think either one of us was annoyed by the other.  It was great.  We talked about our births (we both used midwives), childcare, breastfeeding, foods we feed our kids, and our careers.  She’s a chef, yum!  We got around to the subject of Nia’s birthday party, and turns out she makes cakes and decorates them too!

I recently had a bad experience with a bakery.  I won’t mention the name of the establishment because I don’t want to give them negative attention.  They are actually good, I just didn’t like the vegan cake they made for me.  I’m not a vegan, but I know some of the attendees are, so I was attempting to have a cake that all could eat.  But it was just not good.  Not tasty at all .

Anyway, so this mommy I met makes cakes with fresh ingredients.  None of that store-bought crap that seems to have way more (artificial tasting) frosting than cake.  So I may have found my cake maker!

Turns out she’s off on Mondays and Tuesdays like me and brings her children to the library every Monday.  So this may be our routine now.  And maybe Nia will begin to like books, because now she flings them across the room whenever I try to read her one.  Goodness knows I hope she grows out of that and eventually enjoys reading!