18 Year Old Love

I recently went and saw the new Twilight Movie 4A with my dear friend, Pippi. It was fine, I guess. I'm honestly not a big fan of the movies, up until I saw the new one I think I had only ever seen the very first one. I will admit to reading the books. I'm not really a fan of those either, but at least they were books so I got to make up my own images in my head. I could go on and on about the lameness of the movie but the point is this: I am so glad I did not marry the man I was in love with at 18. Not because I didn't love him, or because we would have turned out horribly and destined to fail and all that but because I never would have found this One. This man. This silly, frustrating, sleeping-while-the-kids-do-god-knows-what man.
It is hard knowing that I love him no matter what. It is hard knowing that this man actually means so much to me that I refuse to put financial comforts before Us. Much to the frustration of my mother. It means that there are no ultimatums. No "If you don't make tons and tons of money I'll take the kids and move in with my parents!" Because a) if the 3 of us plus Isis tried to live there again it would suck like nothing else and b) I don't want to separate from him over money. I can't say "Since your'e not making the money I'll go get a job and put the kids in day care." Any job I would get (without a great deal of luck) would not pay me as much as hourly daycare for 2 kids. So, I'd have to go back on food stamps. Where now we are barley scraping by and we take no assistance from the government, if I were to go back to work, we would have to go back on government assistance. And also, my baby boy is still nursing!

That's right, the Little Baby Man Child has been nursing for 16 months! That is 2 months longer that with Little A... Oh! it's almost her birthday! Little A's Fourth Birthday. I think we will be having another Butterfly Party. Last year's was a Pink and Golden Tea Party and I guess this year's is going to be a Butterfly Princess Party. I'm really excited and will soon be trolling the internet and Pintrest for good Little Girl Birthday Ideas.

That's all the word vomit for now. I missed you. I feel like it has been forever. I still believe in the revolution. I love the world.


also, i miss melinda. but she'll be home soon!

Medicated and Motivated

This past year has been very hard for my man, my love. He has lost his sister and his closest most beloved friend, confidant, partner. In response to his saddness he has created this video series as a way to help himself and his family to understand and cope with his pain. In the process, he has touched many other lives, even getting emails from peaple he has never met telling him that his videos have saved their lives. Please watch and share. If you know any one who is feeling alone, I know these might be able to help. The first one helps get K Bean to bed peacefully on nights when she is missing her Daddy so bad she cant sleep.
I love you James.
RIP Amy
RIP Kelain.






This artist, Chase, just found out he had lost his father.







This is dedicated to my husbands sister.

My Hubby on Stage with dead prez in Paris

Yay! So my man is doing a ton of video work for the hip hop group dead prez. They were in France for just a day and performed at a huge festival in front of this really cool church. They got to use the inside as the backstage. So cool. When the kids are bigger we'll get to go along too and then these posts will be about traveling with vegan kids thru out the world!