Independent Play
Jul. 6th, 2006 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheThis morning, I dropped Linnea off at creche, and triked into town to run some errands.
It was weird. I don't think I've had a weekday morning to myself since she was born - since, therefore, a full month before she was born, because we had houseguests continuously from 37 weeks onwards - and I kept doing things like making for the lifts rather than the escalators, avoiding stairs, and so on.
I ran my errands, which involved buying biscuits for the toddler and parent coffee, and getting some stuff sorted out with my Boots loyalty card, including collecting a few bits of free stuff and using points to buy apple juice. Then I had about half an hour left, which wasn't long enough to get a cup of coffee (I can't drink it hot) but too early to collect her, given how much she enjoys going to creche. So I sat around looking at my freebies.
If I get another chance to do this, I'll make sure to do something like get a haircut, rather than buying boring old groceries. Or sit in a bookshop cafe for 90 minutes, all on my own. I am absolutely determined not to use time like that for housework though.
Today, I met a young woman who used to teach us ballroom dancing, and her 6-week-old baby girl, who was asleep, and didn't mind my touching her little bitty hand, and didn't wake or stir or anything. The birth was easy and all-natural, and mother and baby look fit as particularly healthy fiddles. I love meeting people who've recently had babies.
It was weird. I don't think I've had a weekday morning to myself since she was born - since, therefore, a full month before she was born, because we had houseguests continuously from 37 weeks onwards - and I kept doing things like making for the lifts rather than the escalators, avoiding stairs, and so on.
I ran my errands, which involved buying biscuits for the toddler and parent coffee, and getting some stuff sorted out with my Boots loyalty card, including collecting a few bits of free stuff and using points to buy apple juice. Then I had about half an hour left, which wasn't long enough to get a cup of coffee (I can't drink it hot) but too early to collect her, given how much she enjoys going to creche. So I sat around looking at my freebies.
If I get another chance to do this, I'll make sure to do something like get a haircut, rather than buying boring old groceries. Or sit in a bookshop cafe for 90 minutes, all on my own. I am absolutely determined not to use time like that for housework though.
Today, I met a young woman who used to teach us ballroom dancing, and her 6-week-old baby girl, who was asleep, and didn't mind my touching her little bitty hand, and didn't wake or stir or anything. The birth was easy and all-natural, and mother and baby look fit as particularly healthy fiddles. I love meeting people who've recently had babies.