'Bed-in' With Baby-Kalico

Make no mistake, I love looking after Baby-Kalico!!,

but it's really hard work when you can't put any weight on one foot,

you walk with crutches

and you are lumbering a huge plaster cast around with you

everywhere you go...

I knew it was going to be hard work so

I carefully worked out the household budget

and decided that if we were very careful

and had no extras (i.e. NO luxuries of any sort!!!!)

we could just about afford some help for a few weeks

to get me over the worst of it.

Unfortunately help needs days off

and today help was unwell :(

I have been getting up in the morning to look after baby,

I put her to bed at night and I play with her

as much as possible during the day,

but if I am alone in the house with her,

we have to do a 'bed-in'.

This means that I can feed her,

put her down for naps etc

without having to carry her around,

an impossible feat with crutches!

If I'm not sleeping at the same time as her,

I try to do a little hand-sewing...

I have found making the two different halves
for my rose-star quilt quite addictive...

Obviously they come together much quicker

and I have been trying some wild colour combinations...

Who knows, a few more weeks of bed-rest

and I may even be 'half' way :)