it’s such an awesome, sweet, beautiful miracle how these shadows gave birth to the one above…

You are 5 1/2 months old now and the light of my life! Your papa’s, too, of course. You are strong and healthy — now 14+ pounds and 26 inches long! You are really content and as sweet as your photo captures. Ok, even sweeter.
If it was up to you, you’d be outside 100% of [...]

I can see it, Tulsi can, too. The light at the end of this long tunnel of a journey to finish the book I keep telling her I’m making for her. My mom is here this week and is helping me SO so much so I can paint, paint, paint. This is such a gift! [...]

Taking a moment in the garden with Tulsi to ‘pet’ her giant sunflower friend. I love how gentle she is with them and how she talks to them. Summer is sliding on by, and I’m not finding much time to blog these days — too busy bein’ with my baby! I’d love to write about [...]

Ahhh! Finally, a moment to post a little something…Our days have been so full around here that I rarely have time to blog. I’m sure you can relate! Tulsi is 14 weeks old now and is the sweeetest. We are in such a nice groove, and i’m back at work on my book –yay!
Summer is [...]

More smiles here…

i want to let you know we welcomed our beautiful baby girl into the world!
Tulsi Lila (Leela) Grace Shaw was born on the full moon, thursday, april 9th, at 12:52 am at the midwifery center in taos. she weighed 5 pounds 13 ounces and is doing amazing. she had a rough first day and wiill [...]

to the East (above) and to the West (below)

winter and spring are playing with each other while we wait.

Happy Spring from the mountains! I’m so thankful for the gorgeous, MILD and sunny winter we had. It was the best winter for growing a baby. I played outside everyday. And it’s already Spring. New life is sprouting up everywhere. I’ve been up since 5 am cleaning…and I HATE to clean. Hmm, nesting. I think [...]