4 February 2009

Chamomile with honey and the hoover

Today was supposed to be all about visiting with breastfeeding mums, but our postman delivered the wrong letter for that plan to manifest. So instead, I sorted out our overdrawn bank account due to the MAD electricity bill increases (yowza, but the credit crunch just hit home...) and now we are hoovering and drinking tea. Both of which are relatively inexepensive pasttimes.

So we'll scrub the whole house, make some cookies, and start sewing 3-6 month baby grows. I've decided I'm done buying baby clothes. Except from charity shops, where they cost 49 p at most. We are cutting up all the old clothes that we never wear and turning them into baby clothes. I'll take some photos when I'm done. So far, I have three disheveled and ratty outfits, but it's all experimentation, so that's okay. We'll get there.

In the interests of perking up the day, I include a recipe for carrot cake from Whipped that looks divine, and when I can buy carrots next week, I shall make. Mmmm... carrot cake.

Baby whimpers with colic, we are broke, and it's colder in the English Riveria than it has a right to be. Poor palm trees. We had hail and snow last night!

The only other consolation right now is that by April 1st, this will be my daily view. Hooray for filing our rental application! Hooray for more room to sprawl. (And maybe the sewing machine will finally have a proper home.)

Onwards and upwards.