Category Archives: de rebus familiaribus
Drinking problem…
Earlier this morning, when I filed my Mother’s Day brunch recommendations for the Houston Press, I started thinking about what a special Mother’s Day this is for our family.
Tomorrow, in Orange, Texas, we’ll be celebrating Mother’s Day with four generations: memaw, who is 90 and is a greatgrandmother many times over now; Mrs. B (my mother-in-law and grandmother to four), and Tracie P, above with our nearly five-month old Georgia P.
Tracie is such a wonderful, sweet, gentle mother to our baby and I’d like to honor her today by talking about a “drinking problem”… No, not the one you’re thinking!
No, the drinking problem I’m referring to is how the pressures of consumerist hegemony and bourgeois society drive mothers away from breast-feeding.
toes taste good
Georgia P is growing and becoming more curious about the world around her.
Even in those 4:30 a.m. moments where she decides it’s time to wake up (she sleeps in a bassinet in our bedroom) and make a ruckus, the joy she brings us is endless…
I’m not sure that “Here Comes Mandy” is going to make it on to the next NN+ record, but it was a hit with one Texas toddler…
scenes from the recording studio (rock ‘n’ roll baby)
From the DEPARTMENT OF ROCK AND ROLL…
A rock and roll band invaded our house this weekend…
Loved this gorgeous photo by Tracie P…
It’s always so amazing to work with Céline in the studio… incredible voice, incredible chops…
Rock ‘n’ roll is a very serious business or so says Jean-Luc…
And the best part of having the band record its new album at our house? There’s always someone around to entertain little Georgia P. I wish yall could hear her laugh… it’s the SWEETEST thing…
Back in the studio and Georgia P’s new bouncy chair
Yup, hell has frozen over once again and the band is getting back together…
Yesterday, we — Nous Non Plus — started working on our new album at Baby P Studios (above, my home studio).
And in other news…
Somebody got a new bouncy chair… :)
she can change my whole wide world (so good to be home)
So good to be home with my beautiful girls… they’re so sweet to me…
Where I want to be all the time (the greatest love)
Unfortunately, I’ve got to leave Austin again tomorrow for a few days. But it sure has been nice to be in one place for a while.
Most early evenings, I tune out around 5 p.m. and play guitar and sing for Georgia P until she’s ready for her bath. All she has to do is look at me and another love song just seems to flow from my finger tips. She’s such an inspiration and such a joy for us…
Mini me…
We love her so much… she’s so sweet and such an easy baby…
Tracie P has begun calling her “mini Jeremy P”… :)
(Check out Tracie P’s post from today on the pros and cons of the nursing stool…)
Georgia P’s first Easter (man, am I glad to be reunited with my girls)
Every day while I was away in Italy, Georgia and Tracie P would send me a photo of them as soon as they woke up. Buon giorno, daddy was the subject line. It sure helped to assuage the loneliness that came with being away from them. But, man, there’s nothing like the real thing, baby…
Yesterday, we celebrated Georgia P’s first Easter with an Easter basket.
Dinner of steamed, roast, and sautéed vegetables…
and roast chicken for mommy and daddy…
paired with 2007 Produttori del Barbaresco classic Barbaresco…
and Irving Berlin’s 1948 Easter Parade, starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland…
Man, is it good to be back home…
Le mie femminucce
