sunday mornings

At the weekends Graham likes to get up quite early and go out on his bike, but he usually brings me a cup of coffee before he goes.  I drink my coffee while feeding Dulcie from the comfort of my bed and reading a book.  The slow pace of the day and the peace and quiet seems to make Dulcie very relaxed and she will often have a snooze beside me on the mattress after she has finished feeding.  Weekend mornings are also the only time that the cats get to be in bed at the same time as me, having been banished from the bedroom overnight ever since Dulcie came home.  Above is the scene from last Sunday.  My side of the bed is getting to be very messy, as you can see.  I am a bit overrun by bedside books, but it's a good thing that I'm managing to get back into reading, I say!  Just at the bottom of the picture there you can see Dulcie's basket on the floor.  I realised this morning that without a stand, a moses basket is really just a dog basket.  This realisation made me feel like a very bad parent but...

... look at the scene from this Sunday morning!  Ta-da!  Last night Dulcie slept in her enormous new bed for the first time.  She seemed very pleased to wake up in such luxurious and spacious surroundings, bless her.  I found it a bit strange to have her sleeping at the bottom of our bed rather than right beside me (so far away!) but I think I will get used to it.  I am planning to use some of my prettiest vintage fabric to make sheets for Dulcie's mattress.  Since she uses those sleeping bags, she has no need for blankets etc. and I thought some '60s/'70s florals might make her bed that bit more snazzy.  I was just going to hem the edges and make flat sheets, but I think I might try to make some elasticated/fitted sheets instead as they are so much easier to put on.  I don't think it would be all that hard and we'll be using this bed for years so it should be worth the effort.  Watch this space... but not with bated breath!  Actually, my mum is coming to stay soon so I might use her visit to give it a go, although I did promise myself I'd use her visit to get some urgent tidying/cleaning done.  Still, the main thing I wanted to tidy/clean was the craft room so it would be rude not to try to do some crafting too!  And then (woo hoo!) I'll have something other than a baby to blog about... if you class handmade baby sheets as craft-related rather than baby-related.  Hmmm.

I have noticed that some of my followers are disappearing and other followers are taking their place quite seamlessly.  I never worry much about how many/few followers I have, but it is bothering me that my "demographic" may be changing.  It makes me feel that my core self might have been changed by motherhood and I still really want to be the same old me.  I can assure you I am still the same old me really, just me with no time to do anything/blog about anything not related to Dulcie.  I even considered not blogging until I feel like balance has been restored, but decided against it because 1) my blog is really just a diary moderated (in order to stop me getting maudlin) by the fact that anyone can read it, 2) I might want to remember all the mundane nonsense that goes along with this time in my life and 3) balance may never be restored.  So I will keep blogging and hope that not everybody will have jumped ship by the time I surprise you with an out-of-this-world craft-related post.