Category: Kids
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Astrid says
…how many cakes have you baked since the last one? A: quite a few. Astrid likes cake. Especially the new ones mummy has been baking. From her new cookbook – Off the Shelf. The recipe for raspberry and peach tart that mummy has totally changed, using almond meal and spelt flour and different berries each…
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The Edith report
Edith – 1 week old I know from most of the photos it looks as though Edith is always asleep in her moses basket. Well, that’s all been a big ruse. Much of the time she’s been firmly attached to one or the other boob. If not that then crying. I always remembered Astrid being…
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We’re home
Wow – thank you all so so much for all your messages! We’ve loved reading them – Kevin brought them all in to hospital for me to read on his phone. It’ wonderful to have such an amazing support network 🙂 It’s so good to be home again. We went pretty much straight back to…
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Edith Rose
(kevin here) After weeks and months of waiting, and us mistakenly thinking she’d be early, Edith arrived on her due date of 16th January, at 10.53pm, with a hiss and a roar. A seemingly straightforward labour started at about 1pm and things progressed normally during the afternoon. After taking advice from a friend (whose husband…
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Due date
…and I appear to be having half decent contractions. We’ve been for a walk and now it’s bed and a hottie. Hopefully we’ll have a baby by the end of tomorrow today. I’ve also created two Blurb books – the family albums for 2007 and 2008 – a job that’s been languishing for some time…
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Come on baby come on come on
39 weeks, 5 days Might bake that cake today. And we’ll walk to England’s Lane later on for toulouse sausages. Last night I put together the blurb family album for 2008 – it’s brilliant – can’t stop looking at it.
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Time for a cup of tea
… and a sit down (and a scone). I’ve finished the sewing binge. Babychops ii clothes are all freshly washed and re-packed. I made scones. I’m thinking about a cake. Maybe. Nah. Now all I feel like doing is sitting down and doing nothing. And possibly knitting. But before I do, a few notes on…
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Nesting and the new sewing machine
using up scraps + nature baby ribbon God it‘s good. My new Elna 5100. Really good. I can sew while Astrid is asleep even. And in the next room even. My sketchbook is full of ideas, full of projects being ticked off. More batting has been ordered. Blankets are being made. It’s cold outside. And…
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Notes from a small island
Thirty eight weeks yesterday. And we’re on the mend. Today I redeemed my New Sewing Machine For Christmas voucher at John Lewis. Today I didn’t spend twenty quid on a cab. Today the bus driver let me on free when my card failed. Today I sat next to a lovely lady on the bus who…
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the Astrid Dimension
Sunday was Astrid’s second birthday. Monday mummy and daddy noticed Astrid has got even cuter. Again. Sunday morning mummy couldn’t pull herself together to stop crying. She cried and cried and cried and just wanted to stop all this sickness and make everyone better again and to go home and never be so silly as…
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The happy hum
My sewing machine came to a very noisy grinding halt the other day. It was only a few hours later Polly’s vintage Husqvarna was humming along happily, finishing the quilt for my niece, and the Christmas presents that had been cut and overlocked – all waiting for finishing. Little double gauze and cotton jersey trousers…
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To the islands
porcelain flower by ande – astrid’s second grandma A few people have asked me why we came here, as in back to London. A few reasons really. One of the main reasons, in fact the very most main reason that was the one that overrode all the doubts that arose in the weeks before we…