Did you really like it? I remember recommending it to you! It’s very beautiful as well as being entertaining. A classic.
I have a good friend who has two kiddies. When she visits our small family, she quietly retires to one of our rooms to feed her new baby. No fuss, no muss. She has real class.
Yes, it was a wonderful book, with marvelous detail about rural and small-town life. Many episodes reminded me of my father’s old hometown in Missouri; my grandmother would have felt right at home in Lark Rise. I felt so bad about the narrator’s brother, though.
I have a “nursing cover,” which is a sort of apron with a strap around the neck, like Juan Diego’s tilma. I got it free when I ordered a pillow and a footstool, before Kathleen was born, but it has turned out to be very useful. With that and my Motherwear blouses, nobody sees anything unless they try awfully hard.
One when Kathleen was a few weeks old, I was nursing her in my obstetrician’s waiting room - her face and my bosom completely covered - and another patient asked if she was my grandchild!