I need to figure out how to relax because looking over my photos of yesterday’s activities makes me look like a crazy person.

First, I totally confused Orville by staying home.  He meowed and meowed in confusion trying to get me out the door and off to work.  I think it tired the little guy out.  Finally, after much kitty frustration, he collapsed on the spare bed with me reading cookbooks.

Then, I decided to make some chocolate-zucchini cake.  Technically, it was pattypan squash and not zucchini… but close enough.

After a power snooze, I went down to the Glebe to check out the farmers market and see what day-dwellers get up to.  Maybe it was luck, but I didn’t have to wait at all for a bus and people moved from the priority seating.  It was a bus miracle!  Daytime rocks!  The market is pretty sparse on Thursdays with just a handful of stalls.  Still, enough vendors were there to come home with a decent haul of carrots, eggplant, beans and blueberries.

Then I got busy in the kitchen again making dinner - it was the Indian carrot salad recipe from Jamie at Home.

Oh yes, and I mixed up some dough for the flatbreads in the breadmaker.  Yum.

Poor Orville crashed in the evening after all the cooking.  At least he crashed in his new bed.  I was starting to think he was never going to use it.

As for maternity leave: day two.  Let’s just say, it has started off by recaulking around the tub.  Must learn to chill out.