This and that
I have become a homebody. Before I had my Ethan the fourth child I always wanted to be out. I would go to playgroups, playcentres, shopping centres with play areas, parks, trips into the city, gym with childminding and sometimes not often I’ll invite myself or hope to be invited to a friends place. I guess since Dylan started school and lachlan pre-school this year I haven’t needed to be anywhere and have enjoyed the comforts of home.
There has been lot’s of things happening around the place these last few weeks.
1. Ethan’s love of his toothbrush and playing with toilet paper.
2. Marty’s back in the kitchen!. Since my birthday and mother’s day he has had to make breakfasts for me in bed (a tradition in the family) so he'd ask me for the recipe and on top of my head I told him. So off he goes in the kitchen. There was no plain flour so he uses SR Flour and woala perfect pancakes. They bubbled up like a gem. Pancakes for breakfast at my house anyone?
3. I found the face paints. Since cleaning the bits and pieces lying around the house I found them. Here they are - Batman, spiderman and princess butterfly.
4. The kids love helping in the kitchen and on this day I needed mushrooms cut up. Lachlan did a fantastic job but as for ethan you judge for yourself. But he did try and with some love and guidance he did chop some. Please mind the snotty nose and the one he put into his mouth. The food was not for other people but us in the family and we believe that sharing is caring.
5. Autumn is here and along comes cold weather. Snotty noses, sore heads and loads more washing.
I am in 2 minds about whether I like cold weather. I like that I can put the kids to bed early. I like that we can make use of the fire place. I like that I can cover up all my flabby bits with a jumper. I like the sound of rain on the chimney. I like having hot cuppas at night. I love cold feet at night rubbing together to try and get warm (you knows who’s smelly feet I choose to rub). But there are many things that I don’t like about the cold weather. I don’t like the cold, flues and headaches. I don’t like muddy feet getting into my car. I don’t like being cold all the time. I don’t like the very cold mornings and I am sure there is many more. But Autumn is here and so I try and enjoy it.
Autumn is here …….
6. My beutiful Isabelle.
I don’t talk about Isabelle very much maybe because she is usually at school, doing school work or getting ready for school. I am very proud of Isabelle from where she was in Kindergarten to where she is now. She’ll tell me that she is trying her hardest and that is all that I expect from her. Some photo’s she took of herself, I have just seen them myself whilst downloading.
7. Food, glorious food.
Shopping, chopping, stirring, dicing, boiling and lots of eating have been happening in this house of mine and I am loving it. I joined the large family club March 2009. Somehow when you have 3 children you still are considered a normal sized family but at 4 you are considered large. So being a “large” family we go through tonnes of food. Instead of buying pre-packaged foods I have been baking and cooking.
Some of the foods include lasagne, biscuits, pancakes, fruit slice, rice pudding, spinach bureks, chicken snitzels.
Sharon came over with her 6 kids the other day for dinner. I was not as organised as I should be and I had not rolled out the dough to make the spinach bureks I had planned. Being Sharon she helped me roll them out. So all 3 of us Marty, Sharon and myself just like a processing line we were making loads of these bureks. I am telling you they are cheap, filling and kind of nuritious. We ended up having it on Sunday for dinner as well. The kids loved them and they did not taste much different than those $8 ones at the markets.
8. For mother’s day instead of a cappucino machine I got this and I am happy that I got this instead of a bulk machine. But so far I have not enjoyed the coffees I have made using this coffee plunger. May not help using really old coffee beans from who knows what date. So when I pass Gloria Jeans I’ll grab a little pack of grinded beans and see if I can create something good.
9. I think that’s all for now. I’ll post some videos of Ethan in action!.
Cheerio
