Blast from the past--Zari's debut in Grazia

I had an hour-long interview today with journalist Clare Wiley about my experience having an unassisted birth with Zari. As I was gathering my thoughts, I remembered that our story had been featured in Grazia magazine when Zari was still a baby. (What is Grazia? Imagine People magazine + Vogue had a baby in the UK).

I found the magazine tucked away in a drawer underneath batteries and contact paper. I thought I had shown it to the kids, but none of them knew about it! So we had fun looking through the story and seeing me and Zari juxtaposed with pictures of Paris Hilton and Victoria Beckham 🙂 Such a fancy life we lead!

The story is written in first person, but they are not my words. I had a very long interview with the author, and she then chose how to put my story together as if I were the one telling it.

On to other news: by a miracle of a heat wave (96°F or 35.5°C), all four children came home after school! All games and practices were cancelled. We ate dinner together and then went to the indoor track at the university. We picked up one of Inga's friends (also a soccer player). I mostly walked around the track while the others had a 3-v-3 game.