Yesterday we played with T&E and C&S and learned of C's new baby on the way. It has been creeping into my head that perhaps we could have another, but on Thursday night as we lay in bed after three hours of trying to settle our screaming child, I was utterly grateful that we had not yet gone down that road. Another? Madness.
We visited the toy library and bought the kid a birthday present and made it home in time for a quick dinner before The Boy's monograph launch.
It was a hit. The cafe at the end of our street lent us the rooftop and the place was filled with friends and friendly tunes. The print run sold out. The kid came and played for a bit and then my parents and I strolled home with him and put him to bed before I went back for possibly the first actual night out in more than a year. I had three glasses of wine and was happily drunk, and laughed and played and did not have to look for my child. As we were leaving, with effing brilliant artwork in hand, the waitress asked if anyone was blogging my outfits. I looked "amazing". I felt amazing. That's what flocked aqua plastic sandals and fluorescent orange fishnets will do.
The amazingness wore off at 5.15 this morning when the kid woke up. Perhaps the booze was still in my boobs, though. Cos for only the second time ever, he went back to sleep after his feed, sprawled across my belly which this time a year ago was gearing up to send him out.
C'mon, no outfit photo?
ReplyDeleteIt's surreal going out, isn't it? I went to a bar last night, and had a baby-free day today (haircut! Brown Owls!) - and I can't comprehend that life used to be like this _every day_.
Someone in my mothers' group is pregnant again; her daughter will be sixteen months old when the baby comes. Selfishly, I was happy that mothers' group would live on (she's decided against going back to work), although sadly without the one woman going back to work full-time next week. The idea of another baby makes me feel quite faint, I must admit. Tiny glimpses of life before Auden are just starting to shine through!
Heh, no. No outfit photo. It briefly crossed my mind to try and recreate it in Polyvore, but turns out I am... how can I say? Too 'outside of' fashion for any part of my ensemble to show up there.
ReplyDeleteYes! I had a haircut too! I know! The things you can get done when no one needs to sleep or be fed or have a tantrum. A-mazing.
Our mother's group has definitely dwindled as people have gone back to work, but there are still people we make time to see, and the mamas are all bang-up for dinner sans children once a month or so. Although I have decided I am pro working and using my brain, etc., etc., I do occasionally think in a wistful and rose-coloured way of lovely cohorts of babies growing up together and heading off to school with each other... I'm not sure that sort of thing happens so much these days.