Gardens and things

After her 3rd breakfast this morning, Fiona and I climbed back into bed for a half hour and watched my old boyfriend Jamie Oliver (pre-ross) prepare a meal for his family with ingredients that he picked straight from his garden.

Jamie made a simple, rustic pasta sauce from his home grown tomatoes which he had canned last summer. He simmered them with basil, oregano and garlic which were all fresh from his garden Once he had combined the sauce with the linguini noodles, he topped it with his fresh home grown peas and baby basil leaves. It looked so tasty, fresh and healthy and it put me into a daydream about one day turning the yard on Kelly Street into a fully stocked organic produce store...with a little chicken coop and everything. It is a common daydream of mine and one which I hope to bring to fruition in the distant future.

~ ~ ~ Now visualize those dreamy swirls that take you from reality into dreamland on television and fast forward 5 years~ ~ ~ ~

Come supper time, I would ask Fiona to please go and gather the veggies and salad for the evening meal. She would be dressed in a white eyelet dress (that I sewed for her of course) and oversized gumboots and she would skip merrily out into the garden and after carefully selecting some of our finest fare, she would return to the kitchen with a melange of fresh, sun-ripened ingredients for our dinner.

Now come back to reality for some actual update on tonights dinner plans. Fiona is having her usual delicacy, Ross has gone downtown for a liquid dinner with Fred. I have cooked myself a fresh sockeye salmon which was caught just yesterday in the Fraser River,now thats a salmon thats worthy of a daydream.

Linda the midwife was here today. Fiona weights 9.8 and is gaining about an ounce per day which is excellent. Linda is still coming as she is trying to help us get Fiona to sleep more at night time. She thinks Fiona should be sleeping 5 hours and then another 4 after a midnight feeding...right now she sleeps about 4 or 5 in total and then she is up again and ready to party, so I will try anything Linda has to suggest ! ! ! She suggests going back to the system that we were feeding her on when she was born. Spend an hour feeding her every 3 hours and then as the evening comes I should spend an hour feeding her every 2 hours. This is a grueling schedule and it means that it makes it difficult to go out for daytime adventures, but it should only be for about a week and then we should see an improvement in her night time habits. Right now I survive on about 5 hours sleep in a 24 hour period and I think thats just about enough of that !