A day in town

Today was spent in a town nearby (37 kms...). I discussed plans for some lectures in the fall and then we had lunch with a friend and did a bit of shopping. Hardest part was running back and forth to the car, since you can only park for 2 hours, and I was too lazy to start packing in D and the pram to move the car every second hour, so instead I just altered the time....

It was great to also run into people we know in the street and in one of the shops - D was happy to see two of his girlfriends :) and I was happy to share some news with the mothers :). I seem to have a pent up need to speak, when I see someone I know I'll talk and talk and talk...it's so great! I thoroughly enjoyed the day, but I still get tired rather quickly (it's still a bit new for me to move around in town with the pram), so once more I didn't finish my shoppinglist. Realized I don't think I've bought myself any clothes since D was born. Some underwear, but can't remember bying anything else. So next time....... and I plan for next time to be quite soon, it was so nice to stroll around in the sunshine, went to a café when I got thirsty and basically just took my time in the shops as well.

On the way home I stopped to put on D's sunglasses - he doesn't really like them, but when he managed to grab hold of mine, he forgot about his own. Unfortunately he very quickly fell asleep, dropped my glassed to the floor, woke up to that, and quickly took off his own. I was too lazy to stop anymore, so for the rest of the trip we both squinted, even if there were three pairs of sunglasses in the car - one pair on the floor (couldn't reach them when driving), one pair somewhere in my bag (couldn't find them, even if I knew they were there), and one pair mostly in D's mouth....

When D was christened I got a voucher to a bookstore, but haven't had time to use it until now - a beautiful book with children's stories is now waiting for D to become old enough to listen to the stories. My old "disease" kicked in - couldn't help buying two books for myself as well....There seems to be less and less to watch on tv in the evenings after D has fallen asleep, so I now plan to start using it for reading (when I'm not blogging :(.

Another "disease" that has popped up again is my urge to do gardening. Last year I hardly did anything in the garden, now I can't stop planning what to do there (once the snow has melted completely - we still have degrees below zero in the night, so it melts slowly). Couldn't help myself, had to buy some flowerseads already (I don't care that much about "useful" things like carrots etc, I only want to plant flowers, flowers, flowers!). It'll be so nice to be able to be outside with D in spring and summer..

D's cold is better, last night he didn't cough at all, but instead my nose is running. I'm a bit nervous about tomorrow, there is supposed to be a mother-children meeting, but I'm not sure I should go with my cold. I'll have to see tomorrow morning, I'd love to see the others!!!

ps. today he got up on this knees for the first time - he wanted to touch the tv-screen!