I can't believe it's been so long since I blogged. Hmmm...four months in the big picture isn't too bad I suppose but so much has happened that four month feels like much longer. You may know from the webcast, facebook or other means of communicating with us that I'm pregnant and our baby is due June 6th! We found out on the weekend of our wedding anniversary and have been celebrating ever since. Of course, I've been growing bigger as I've been celebrating–evident from these pictures.
Meanwhile, I've been working hard to finish my book–yes, the same book that I've been writing for the last three years–before the baby comes. Thanks to my friend James and his help with reading and editing chapters, I will be making my deadline. Howlelujah!
We spent the holiday traveling back from Colorado to Connecticut, stopping to see family in Wisconsin and performing a new Year's show with The Troubadours and The Sirens in Lousville, KY.
And...drum roll...Big news came yesterday...we found out we are expecting a little girl. I had the feeling all along that it was a girl who had chosen to come through us this time around. I have seen her in my dreams as a baby and as a grown woman, really!
She is beautiful, healthy and brilliant and in the dreams she tells me she is one of "The Children of Now", helping to bring peace to earth in her lifetime. Holy holy. I am honored to be the vessel.
If you're wondering who did that masterpiece painting behind me in the photos, it was created by Bart Bean (Bootleggin' Bean) from Columbia Missouri. The frame is hand built by his powerful hands and it is the most wonderful piece of art I've ever seen. He gave it to us as a thank you for the work we did in Columbia and I can only say that I am humbled–that gift really brings me to my knees and helps me make sense out of our whole Midwest journey. It was about the friends we made and the earth family we found, that's why we went to the heart.
So that's my update for now, quick I know, but James said it was about time I posted new news and I wanted to make sure to get something up before we head to NYC for the weekend. More to come about the adventures of this holy road, growing a life inside my belly, and loving the Source of life. Hopefully in less than four months, otherwise, next pictures will be of me holding the little angel! I'll really try...
oh and by the way, did I mention I love my husband? He is going to be the best "Pa" a girl could ever dream of (for those of you who don't it, the many episodes of Little House On The Prairie that I watched when I was growing up in urban Manhattan helped raise me to be the woman that I am and the "ma" that I plan to become so you can just call me Ma West from now on.)
Until soon, holy now. Yours in life and song, Lizzie (and dharma dog too)
