You know what my favourite time of the day is? 6.30pm. Usually dinner is done and dusted and the washing up done. Baths have been bathed, there are clean children with clean bottoms and jammies on. It's dark and the candles have been lit, the fire roaring, and the baby is usually not far off bed. … [Read more...]
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Eating out with kids: what do you want to see?
June 19, 2016 by 38 Comments
I was grabbing a takeaway coffee yesterday and chatting to the owner about an idea she had and was asking me for some help on creating a good kids menu for dinner time. We were both lamenting (OK, maybe it was just me) about how there is just SO much fried options, and that's it when you eat out at … [Read more...]
Local Spotlight: Suzie Anderson Home
June 16, 2016 by 14 Comments
Last week when I was visiting the new local cafe (Highlands Merchant) on the scene here in the Highlands I was VERY excited to head just next door for another new shop that has opened up: Suzie Anderson Home. Mum had told me about this place, about how amazing it was, and of course I had visited her … [Read more...]
Saving all my love for you
June 16, 2016 by 18 Comments
I read this article last week. Last August a study out of the University of Washington Department of Psychology has revealed that children are 800% worse when their mothers are in the room. If the children are under ten, the percentage doubles to 1,600%. And don't we know it? Yesterday when I … [Read more...]
Windy woes
June 9, 2016 by 61 Comments
Friends, you know the expression "don't cry over spilt milk"? Well, can you cry over tipped pots? And the weather? And pre-mature old age because these kind of things matter to me now? You see, this week has really brought out the old lady in me. It was a couple of days ago when I was getting … [Read more...]
Bill Granger’s Thai Chilli roast chicken
June 8, 2016 by 15 Comments
This is an old recipe but a good one that most definitely needed to be updated and added to the printable recipe template for you guys to use. It's so tasty, dead easy and a great twist on a traditional roast chook (which we seem to trot out once a week in our house!). Make it...you won't be … [Read more...]
Kitchen favourites
June 2, 2016 by 62 Comments
I had to head into a cookwares shop this week to get some more cutlery (is it just our place that somehow loses cutlery?) I swear after Rob's party we lost so much stuff back to the party hire people, and then somehow teaspoons go missing in lunch boxes...in any case...we needed them. So Mags and I … [Read more...]
Baby Files #8
June 1, 2016 by 41 Comments
The Love to dream giveaway has now closed and the winner chosen (Sarah Gooley) with this comment: "Oh that Maggie. She is beautiful. And like I say under breath to my girls every single day. Thank the Lord that you are cute, because otherwise… OTHERWISE! My eldest is three in July and the baby is … [Read more...]
Lessons in laundry
May 31, 2016 by 23 Comments
Yesterday I got a little shouty (although it was meant to be motivational) about laundry. But that's not what I am here to talk about on this rainy Tuesday afternoon. I was putting away the girls washing the other afternoon, I think in Harper's room because her drawers are particularly full … [Read more...]
Ladies dinner
May 27, 2016 by 20 Comments
Guys, I had an entertaining BREAKTHROUGH last night. You see it was my friend Zoe's birthday so I suggested we all come over for a catch up. I asked the Birthday girl what she'd like me to cook and she said her favourite thing was tapas...just bring something, bung it in the middle of the table and … [Read more...]
Thai style BBQ chicken salad
May 26, 2016 by 14 Comments
I made up a salad last weekend that was a happy accident...you know the kind in the kitchen where you make it up as you go but it's FAB and you know you'll do it again. That was this one! So on the go that I don't even have lots of step my step photos...apologies! Thai style BBQ chicken salad 1 … [Read more...]
Tuesday morning
May 24, 2016 by 47 Comments
It's an ordinary kind of Tuesday morning. It's quiet because the bigs are at School, and the little one was delirious and had to be taken to bed early. It's cool outside, but a sparkling Autumn day, the kind that will always remind me of this time last year when I was in the fog of happy, … [Read more...]
Leisure wear
May 19, 2016 by 29 Comments
You know what I've been excited about this week? Well, it would appear that Autumn has FINALLY arrived in all her glory! And besides meaning that the fire can get a good run now, it also means a couple of things: flanno sheets won't be far behind AND we can just about tap into some new winter pj's. … [Read more...]
Milked Dry
May 18, 2016 by 15 Comments
You guys may have seen this clip on The Project last night, I missed it but have since caught up today. I don't know the ins and outs of this, and of course if you have local brands of farmer's milk to support, then you should 100% do that. Living in dairy country (we used to have over 200 … [Read more...]
Maggie is 1!
May 17, 2016 by 45 Comments
A combination of exhaustion and post everything stress sees me an emo wreck, and I'm not quite sure sure to start with this. But here we are, Miss Maggie, my sweet little baby girl, apparently is now 1. A whole year since she came here at 3.34pm on a cold but sunny Highlands Saturday … [Read more...]
Bert’s Bash
May 16, 2016 by 38 Comments
We did it! One 40th birthday party done and dusted and it couldn't have gone better if we tried. The weather was dead set perfect. Sunny! No wind! 22 degrees! The food was perfect (and even better not done by me). We had cocktails in the sunshine, an amazing spread of food and the most wonderful … [Read more...]
Good for your guts (and face and fur)
May 12, 2016 by 60 Comments
A sponsored post for Vaalia A winner has been chosen for this giveaway. Martine won with this comment: "We go through quite a bit of yoghurt in this house , I’m full time carer for my mother and she loves the stuff . In summer with fruit for breakfast and in winter on her porridge . And my live in … [Read more...]
Catching up with an old friend again
May 11, 2016 by 32 Comments
I've just arrived back in Sydney after a whirlwind trip to Melbourne for BUPA to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of their Blue Room and attend a quick workshop for bloggers and of course an excuse to catch up with some old mates. The timing was not great with so much going on at home at this week, … [Read more...]
Learnings from the dark
May 9, 2016 by 51 Comments
We had a big week last week. All of us. Rob was absolutely flat out with work, travelling and working most nights past 10 or 11. That meant that it was game on for me in here with the 3 girls, nothing in particular other than life and school and extra curricular stuff and party prep stuff. Plus, … [Read more...]
Super trooper
May 6, 2016 by 30 Comments
I made the unfortunate mistake during the school holidays to show my girls the film Mamma Mia (WHAT WAS I THINKING?!) which has started a fierce love affair with all things Abba. It dawned on me just how inappropriate it was for Harps, age 6, to be belting out at the drop of a hat with full force … [Read more...]
