Saturday morning Heather time

I just love Saturday mornings when Jason isn't working!  It's my 'me time'.  Every Saturday is a little different, but it often goes something like this morning:

5:30am Cooper wakes for a feed.  It is 6am by the time I put him back in his bed, and at that hour of the morning, I am of course wide awake.  (I'm crap at sleeping in, even if I'm quite tired.)  I wait 45min until I deem it a reasonable time to arise for a Saturday morning.

I leave Cooper in the room with Jason, both sound asleep for now, but knowing that Jase will look after him if he wakes, I head for my most favourite part of the week - long, uninterrupted shower!  I get to wash and blow dry my hair without worrying about checking on a lonely bub.

This morning, Cooper is still asleep, so I don my new $12 opshop outfit I bought yesterday and head off to the supermarket.  Although my hair is unstraightened (and unbrushed, come to think of it!) and my opshop skirt is a little daggy, I feel like a million bucks - hair washed and dried, new clothes after months of such a limited wardrobe and wearing my pretty shoes to boot!

As I prance around the supermarket alone at 7:30am, it is so deliciously quiet.  I see another mum going solo, only her trolley is loaded to the max - she has a slightly bigger family than me, I'd say!  There is a group of young guys who look like they probably haven't been to bed yet.

I get home and Cooper is STILL asleep!  Good golly, is he growing again?  Apart from 3 feeds, he has been asleep for over 14 hours!  I get to put the towels on to wash and rehang clean ones straight away... finishing a job properly is another luxury I sometimes miss.  I make a bowl of yummy porridge and a cuppa and sit down to enjoy it without trying to make silly faces at the same time.

Soon Cooper will be up for a feed.  He'll have a shower with his daddy, then we'll go out for a family shopping trip.  (New TV on the list today, since ours died last week.)

I'm glad I don't have Saturday every day, because I wouldn't appreciate it then.  I'm not even guaranteed to get it every Saturday, as Jason sometimes has to work.  So I love and treasure these special 'me time' and 'family time' days!