Waking Up Full of Awesome
Love it!
~ma to Maria and husband.
Shoe post! Yes, my love of shoes extends to the baby boy variety. Which navy sneak do you like best? (I do realize these are stupid $ to spend on baby shoes, but I love.)
- Vans [link] Baby just outgrew these (hence the need for another pair of blue shoes) so it might be fun to change it up. I do LOVE these shoes, though...
- Converse slip-on [link] A classic.
- Saucony Jazz [link] Mamas both have these and they are super comfortable, not to mention cute.
Waking Up Full of Awesome
How grateful am I that my girl wakes up full of that sort of awesome? Every now and again, I allow myself to believe I did something right, even if it's only allowing Abby to be her own girl.
Speaking of which, the latest Abby-ism: earlier this week, her favorite pair of jeans gasped their last. When I told her she would have to find a new pair of jeans she threw up her hands and declared, "Blasphemy! Balderdash! And gosh darn it!"
I didn't even bother holding back the laughter.
Rice Krispies:
Much ~ma for Maria and husband. Thinking good thoughts for you today, sorella.
Also, ~ma for Matt's friend and hoping there's no major surgeries involved.
So I have a fictional upper middle class black couple--the wife is a lecturer and the husband is an engineer, and they live in an affluent black suburb, and they're not *too* far from a Jamaican community. Where can I set this story?
Glam - all cute shoes. . . I find myself drawn to the idea of your little one and his mamas in matching footgear. . . there should be pictures.
I missed this discussion yesterday. PG County would work, but the LeDroit Park (where I live) would work as well. However, neither of them are places where white faces would be out of place.
I don't know of a specific Jamaican community in DC, but it would be located in or around U Street or Adams Morgan. Again, places where white faces would not be out of place.
If my forehead is itchy and hurts a bit, does that make me Harry Potter, and Voldemort is nearby? Mmmm maybe not. But I am at doc office waiting to have stitches come out. While I want them out, not looking forward to the actual removing process.
I'm looking for somewhere where they're not being run out on rails, just that people look at them with a bit of amusement. They definitely catch attention, and when one wants to go clubbing or something, the other suggests they just skip it and drink in the hotel room. I want them to feel a minority in the face of black America, and a minority in the face of Jamaican expats too. Double whammy.
I could kinda do this in Detroit, but not in 2010 or 2011.
What about Baltimore or Philly?
I need a university for her to teach in, a place for him to engineer in (or suitable other jobs), and a black community where two tall white guys turn heads, and a Jamaican community big enough to have an Obeah woman. Would Baltimore or Philly satisfy that?
