Easter Weekend

Happy Easter! We've had a lovely, busy five-day weekend! Our main goal was to convert the office into Baby Bettie's nursery and integrate the office contents into the living room, but we made time for lovely walks, movies, Easter church service & a lovely gammon roast dinner!

I made this cake I found on Pinterest from a Southern cooking blog--it's called a "Preacher Cake", because it's made with cupboard ingredients that you have handy just in case the Preacher comes over for a visit. It has pineapple, coconut & pecans--I thought it might be sickly sweet but it really isn't. It came out pretty dense & would be a good coffee cake.

On Friday, it was cloudy and mucky--perfect for staying in and working on clearing out the office! Saturday was pretty overcast, too, and that was fine because we were in IKEA all morning and assembling furniture all afternoon. The weather really picked up on Easter Monday & Tuesday--we went out for a walk around Kirkstall Abbey and had tea & cake at the Gate House

Five Guys Burgers and Fries opened up in Leeds back in December and we finally went for dinner tonight. It was delicious! So lovely to have a proper burger! They have Coca-Cola Freestyle machines, too, which I find fascinating. I'd been wanting to go for awhile, but it's down at Cardigan Fields on the A65 so it's a bit awkward to get to (honestly, that's a good thing!). There's an American-style diner, Rosie's, on the same complex that we've been meaning to try--I've heard they have great milkshakes!

Baby's first Hemnes! It really does hold a lot--all of the baby clothes and cloth diapers we have so far are inside, as well as other little accoutrements (baby hairbrush & comb, nail clippers, thermometer, etc.), and there's still a lot of space.

Biscuit checking out the Moses Basket

This week the new mattress, sheets, liner and fabric arrived in the mail so this weekend I sewed the toile Moses Basket bedding. I hemmed it to fit the curved liner and sewed snaps on to attach the liner to the toile cover, so the cover can be removed & washed easily.

We got such an amazing deal on this Mamas & Papas rocking stand & Moses Basket at Poverty Aid UK, it meant we could get a good quality mattress & liner and still come in under budget!

We got this lovely picture frame at Ikea and we found a Peter Rabbit illustration that really suited it well (it's out of copyright, so you can save/edit/print any of Beatrix Potter's works from Project Gutenberg). While we were sorting out the baby stuff, I took all of the pacifiers out of their packaging, washed them and put them in a jar (for pretty, but also to keep them clean & all in one place)

The Algot, another lovely Ikea find--we're going to use this as a side table/storage unit next to the rocking chair. The top can have the reading lamp, books, and beverages (apparently breastfeeding moms are supposed to drink 8 oz of water/fluids every time they nurse?!), the top drawer has breast-feeding related things in it (disposable breast pads, creams yet to be purchased, etc.), the middle drawer has burp cloths, bibs, teethers and toys, and the bottom basket has blankets, swaddlers and muslins.