3 weeks with family was great

the family came visiting with more gifts for lucas, (we came with one suitcase, and left with 3!) and i got a very personal and sincere thank you from philippe's father for bearing the first grandchild to continue the family name. it's a tad ironic actually, since this is the end of the bartran name on our branch of the family tree. it turns out lucas is the first son of the first son of the first son.. so i guess that makes him heir to the throne. haha. this distinction wouldve been very important about 200 years ago or if we were royalty, but in todays modern society it amounts to the worth of the paper it's written on. funny enough though, i always told ph he looks like the little prince (francis de st exupery)..

we went "out" one night and it felt wierd being out socially as a mother. i felt like i couldnt relate and felt odd and i didnt know what else to talk about.. and after 2 hours i was ready to be back home with my baby, because i couldnt stop thinking about him anyway. i guess my new skin is a bit too fresh still.. - ever wear a bandaid too long?

on vacation, I did not make any meals, clean the house or do any laundry.. I recovered from lucas’ first 2 months, took some crash courses in mothering from genie, therese and laurence, and rested. genie made me take a fruit or yogurt every day at 10:30am and 4:30pm for good nutrition, and would only let me make the evening tisane or wash a few dishes. She was always (as usual) 2-steps-ahead of me whenever I would try to do any housework.

I tried to wash my laundry, sneaking down to the laundry room unnoticed, because she already does so much for us that it’d be unconscionable to let her do anything else for us .. I started the load, and came back an hour later to find it already hung on the line and the second load started… thought I’d come back later to beat her to the finish of the first and hang the second. ~ NO~ when I went back, the second load was already hung and the first load was already ironed! But, I DID get to the second load before she could iron it. ha! I win! Heheeh.

AND she made lucas another dou-dou (a stuffed animal, his name is dou-dou-deux) and a quilt… did some alterations on some of our clothes, and loaded us up a doggy-bag of cheeses, bread, and homemade preserves to take home with us. and that’s just the stuff she did for us! she made 15 homemade breads, did the alterations on laurences’ wedding gown (a beautiful and daring red!) and made the flower-girl’s dress too. god knows what else she did.. i wrote more about this fantastical wedding in the following post.

is anyone else incredulous like me? I just adore her… and told philippe I wish not to ever be compared with her as a homemaker.