Image: Baby wondering what happened to his hands?
A couple of mothers, apparently as bored with school holidays as I was, rang me up one morning and invited me along with them for an impromptu holiday. Today, they said, we’re leaving now.
I should be on the run from the law because I can pack fast, even with a child and baby in tow. (Downside: came home to find the house more shambolic than I’d recalled leaving it in my haste, and with the added benefit of more dust).
We stayed at a very sleepy little place on a river and ate whatever meals we could pull together out of things we’d taken from our kitchen cupboards. The kids pottered and played in between bouts of being unnecessarily demanding, and our partners were back in the city at work, feeling both envious of our spontaneity and grateful for their child-free quiet.
Image: Absence of demanding behaviour
Today someone asked me how I was finding my year of maternity leave. You must be missing the stimulation of adult company, they insisted. Are you kidding me? If you’re missing adult company then you’re not doing maternity leave right.
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