You know those beautiful pictures you often see on blogs of artful arrangements of doilies and cups of tea, with some home baked cookies on the side, perhaps arranged on a vintage tray? That is the kind of afternoon break I aspire too.
My reality looks more like this:
Return from morning out, sneak into the house, through the front door, up to our floor in the lift and through our apartment door and find little b is still asleep in her stroller.
Do a little skip of joy!
Retrieve monthly haul of magazines from bag.
Tip toe into the kitchen and put the kettle on.
Scrub this morning's porridge off the kitchen table.
Rummage through cupboards(silently!) and retrieve sachet of instant cappuccino and last four mini chocolate biscuits.
Brew up cappuccino and deposit on table with chocolate biscuits.
Tip toe back out into hall to check on little b.
Find her still snoozing away happily and return to kitchen.
Sit down and enjoy 5 minutes of mama time!
Result!
One day there will time to add the vintage trays and doilies.
