Sunday 30 October 2011

It's time for lunch

Most days lunch a deux (me and my Little One, while the world is at work) is hurried and usually involving sandwiches. Some days I have a bit more time, a bit more cooperation, and look what happens!
I made myself a Jamie Oliver-inspired, dill festooned Greek salad. And it was delicious. The Little One had a deconstructed, diminished salad - tomatoes, olives, avocado and cucumber. He enjoyed eating half of it and squishing the rest.

I am off to peruse Nancy's list for a bit of inspiration for next week.

Friday 28 October 2011

Return

I have been gone for 96 days. A long time, no?

I have wondered, how shall I explain this? What little stories can I embroider with plausibilities and pretences? What moonshine can I paint, what tittletales can I whisper?

Post-birth trauma.
Anxiety disorder.
Panic attacks.
Postnatal depression.

When I started this blog, I wanted it to be honest. I cannot betray those hopes and dreams now in order to cover miserable truths. So there you have it.

And now we can move on from that place, as I sew my life back together, bake goodness back into our hearts, craft serenity back into our comings and goings, and wander back onto the path I was building before - a little different 'I', a little someone-else-ish 'I', hopefully a little better and more optimistic 'I'.

For I am determined that under the cover of this darkness, little gifts will come.