Bed rest

Life on the sofa has never been so busy..

My current reading, BED REST by Sarah Bilston (her first novel). Actually this is my 3rd time reading this book. The first time, 4 years back. Yet married and just read as reading the normal novel. Second time was this year during 3 months pregnancy. And now read it again as i can more feel the character's feeling. It’s hilarious and we can get some info of the final stage pregnancy like what i experiences right now!

The story is about Quinn 'Q' Boothroyd, a busy successful young English lawyer married to the gorgeous Tom and living in New York. But when her doctor tells her she has to spend the last three months of her pregnancy on bed rest. Quinn is thrown into a tailspin by the idea of losing her social and professional life.

Initially bored and frustated, Quinn gradually finds herself  re-examining her world-her marriage, relationships with family and friends, and her job.

I love to qoute some interestings para's from this book :-

I can still be the person  I thought I was twelve hours ago, a woman who had checked off at least some of the important boxes on the Modern Woman's List of Things To Do Before Hitting Thirty, that mental list all late-twenty-somethings carry around with them

• Get good job
• Marry handsome man with good job
• Have healty bank balance
• Get pregnant 

I have no life now, and i'll never have a life again. I might as well face the facts. My youth is over. This is simply a taste of what's to come. I'm not 'me' any more; i'm not a lawyer, I'm not Tom's lover, I'm a body , a vehicle, an incubator..my own life has effectively ended. Bed rest just means it ended a little earlier than expected.

Thirty-two kicks since I finished my last chocolate brownie. I will clearly be able to retire and live on my child's earnings as a footballer. I'll be one of those mothers in the front row with a loudhailer and T-shirt emblazoned with her son's image.

and she mentioned a lot about goooddd food!hehe..really make me cravings for those

...Tom left a mound of sandwiches made with outrageously expensive cheese from Zabar's (he made a quilt -inspired shopping dash on his way home from work yesterday afternoon to buy me a big crumbling hunk of White Cheshire)...      

Last night we had spinach lasagne, the evening before we had duck casserole, and she made a big pot of apple and parsnip soup for lunch today. She's promised to make more and leave it in the freezer before she goes, together with wholegrain rolls. Yum 

Ok, gonna go now to continue reading..blast!