HipHop slightly soil spattered in his sling whilst I try and get some garden jobs done.
In the end I posted this weeks late and a tad cropped and unfinished, but wanted to at least get the photos up and catch up with June and a few other posts!
With a newborn baby, May has seemed rather a blur. However, you generally don’t get much done at any speed in the first few months and it has been another lesson in patience, because even getting something as simple as the washing up done isn’t a given. I started off using a stretchy sling, but problems with my neck and back have meant that towards the end of the month I’ve had to put sling usage on hold, which has affected the amount of household tasks I could do (because he’s not a fan of lying down without being directly on or next to someone). So I’m struggling with some frustration at not being able to get things done that I feel I should.
Nourish
The children have been variously helping to prepare food and Nin has, of course, been baking. Amongst various other cakes, she made two different lemon drizzle cakes: one in a bundt pan, decorated with violas and calendula petals; another in a loaf tin, decorated with lavender flowers.
These may look like simple and rather uninspiring loaves of bread to you, but these are the first two loaves that I was organised enough to make after HipHop has been born. I was very pleased to finally have got back to making bread again (and I’ve kept it up since – so a little bit of normality regained).
Grow
Plenty to sow this month and plenty growing. The first of the tomatoes (Latah) are fruiting and our sweet peppers (approaching two years old) continue to fruit. Currants are also fruiting and the strawberries flowering. There’s a huge amount to do in the garden and I’m trying to rise above feeling frustrated that there is very little I can get done with HipHop. Thankfully plants will continue to grow (if a little haphazardly) even with a small amount of care and some things, salad for example, are already being picked and eaten.
Celebrate and Cherish
We have been getting to know our new family member and, naturally, have had a few visitors over the month that we might not otherwise see that often.
