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So My Baby and I decided that yep, pretty much, we have the perfect life.

I finished the class that I have been taking, and I am now a Certified Infant Massage Instructor. I was realizing today the real potential here. I already have a head start, by six years of working in the nicu, a more than adequate network of connections, dozens of friends who are in business for themselves, a flexible job, the time, the potential , and the motivation to make the push towards being in business for myself and working 1~ 2 times a month at the hospital just ’cause I love it. I plan on giving classes and one-on-one instruction to parents/caregivers massaging their babies, eventually specializing on special needs infants. Specializing = more money!

My Love is also at the cusp of being in successful business for himself. He is working on coming out of 3 months of L&I disability leave from a back injury. He taught parent-child development classes, dancing and singing with preschoolers all day while teaching their parents about their child’s development. My Love is the greatest teacher, loves kids to death, and can actually carry a damn good tune. He’s spent the time while injured doing independent research in physics and atmospheric science, and is working a research project that could literally change the world. He’s an amazing graphic and video designer, too, he has such a unique vision and eye, and his patience and attention to detail are impressive. He just got a $3000 job with a dear friend of ours, his second paid gig. The timing couldn’t be better because just coming off disability, he can only really work a couple of days a week but he feels strong enough to get some real legwork done.  And that would be his goal, too, to work teaching a couple days a week and spend the rest of the time working at home.

Sidenote: The other great thing about Burning Man… amazing people from all walks of life that are independent business-minded. Connections!

So we’re also now fresh in our own apartment. Befor e we got this place, we spent a year and a half sharing a room that had maybe 6 square feet of floor space we shared. We had one closet, no space in the fridge, and we shared a bathroom with four other people. *smirk* We moved out almost two months ago, and man are these bulbs blossoming! My Love is healing, we’re primed to take charge of our lives, to be so into each other that it makes you want to cry, to get ready to bring into the world our greatest joy, our own child. We hope it’s a girl, My Baby’s wanted a girl his whole life. He wants to name her Akasha. I’m good with that. *grin* That won’t happen for maybe three years, though, as we have a few things to accomplish first. Like go to Thailand together and live in a cabin on the beach for a while.

The Love of My Life could take her to work when he teaches, I could take her to my infant massage classes instead of my doll, and we could spend all that extra time at home with her, nurturing her and watching her grow. Teach her about mother earth, whole foods, conscious living, spirituality, compassion, singing, and dancing!  We’ll buy a cabin in the mountains and live beautifully, authentically, and happily for many many moons.

Damn I’m such a hippie. Me and my blue-eyed baby.