1. I am so glad -- after months of having my stomach squashed up under my ribs during pregnancy -- to have my appetite back again. Breast feeding is making me ravenously hungry, so I have been indulging just about every whim and craving.
2. From the kitchen where I am cooking dinner, I can hear Nick telling Alec that his bouncy chair is a spaceship, that Snorgle Mouse is his Wookie co-pilot and that the dangling teddies are space invaders who need to be blasted (that is, kicked) out of the sky.
3. I make a perfect, 10 out of 10 toad in the hole. Because I followed Delia's recipe to the letter.
Friendly, strayed and cedar.
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