Friends, big week in the kitchen this week for on Thursday I have to drop my entries into the local show! I'm going to be throwing a very wide net across a few different categories (if I can find the time this week amongst everything else) and I'll be happy with just getting them in and competing … [Read more...]
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Solving the Big Issues: Buttering the sambo
February 12, 2016 by 49 Comments
I am very lucky to have Rob around in the mornings helping out with the kids, making me coffee, pointing out current affairs that are going on in the world and generally making me laugh. He points out that I am like a Whirling Dervish cleaning plates and knifes and cups before they are finished, I … [Read more...]
How do you like them apples?
February 11, 2016 by 42 Comments
I feel you girlfriend. There's this thing that my children do that makes me go bat shit crazy. Well, one of the things at least. They might be having a discussion about something, say, like apples. And Daisy will say that you can eat and apple this way. And Harper may realise that while you can … [Read more...]
Salt Therapy
February 10, 2016 by 44 Comments
It occurred to me the other day (not that I'm obsessed with time or anything at the moment) that we haven't really had a good day (you know where we do something fun or nice that everyone enjoys together and everyone is happy and well) since about the 3rd Jan. It also occurs to me when I trawl … [Read more...]
Dinner hack: Schnitty shortcut
February 9, 2016 by 49 Comments
During the holidays I made the girls some pikelets for morning tea, it must have been pretty early on to show such caring and wholesome ways, but they were made with quite a bit of leftover mixture leftover in the fridge which I thought I'd use the next day. Later that night I went to make schnitty … [Read more...]
Children’s book Giveaway: Wish Soup
February 8, 2016 by 35 Comments
Out of all the things that I love about living here in the Highlands my very favourite thing, hands down, would be the weather. The seasons. How I know that winter is coming because the daphne starts to bud and the hellebores flower. When the clematis and wisteria is out around the house it's … [Read more...]
Smells like teen spirit
February 5, 2016 by 78 Comments
Yesterday morning I found myself with a few spare hours so where else to go for some alone time? Big W of course! I know, it's a sad state of affairs around here. I wanted to go over to the shopping centre where Big dubs is because I also needed to get to office works and a few other places that all … [Read more...]
Cycling
February 4, 2016 by 82 Comments
Oh hello Thursday, welcome. Perhaps you should put on a flak jacket before coming too close though. Urgh I tell you what, the PMT I get right after having kids is some of the very worst kind I ever get. I know because I searched it on the blog and every time it seems to be worse in … [Read more...]
A brain fart, if you will
February 3, 2016 by 50 Comments
Anyone else finding it a little hard to get their back to normal life groove back? I said to Rob the other day it feels a little like I am in slow motion, just unable to get fully into the swing of all the tasks that are usually easy. I suppose it's been the exhaustion from sickness, combined with a … [Read more...]
Not a little bit married, but very married
February 2, 2016 by 133 Comments
Saturday morning Rob and I were doing what we normally do. No, not having sex like we might have on Saturday mornings in times of yore, we were walking down to the kitchen wiping the sleep from our eyes, carrying the baby and getting to that coffee machine to switch it on. It had been a shit of a … [Read more...]
Round here
February 1, 2016 by 50 Comments
* taps mic* Um, hi there. Sheesh. Look at that, a whole week without a blog post. But I'm back (ish) a little worse for wear and definitely looking un-fresh. But back. Let's all take a moment to relish in this: It's February which means that that god awful January we just went through is … [Read more...]
Monday meal ideas: Lamb
January 25, 2016 by 3 Comments
So, tomorrow is Australia day which never really means anything for us around these parts. We are going to be home, trying to get over these sicknesses that are just going on and on and on and did I mention on? We are in week 4 of it this week...that's FOUR weeks of someone being sick, coughing, … [Read more...]
Zucchini chips
January 22, 2016 by 10 Comments
Things were looking pretty dire in our fridge earlier this week. Considering we are deep into School holidays this was not a good situ. At all. I can tell you that my PCL's were right up there in the discomfort level given that I was down to my last tub of Lurpak and dinner was going to have … [Read more...]
Long, quiet & slow days
January 20, 2016 by 22 Comments
Besides our time up at the farm after Christmas, pretty much every day of the holidays we have done the same thing: and that's a whole lot of nothing. Girls have spent many a day in their nighties, sometimes getting out of them for the bath, only to hop back into them again after. We've had sickness … [Read more...]
Mini Quiches
January 19, 2016 by 27 Comments
Last night I whipped these up for the girls dinner before I headed out to boot camp. Did you like what I did just there? Don't panic, I ate about 13 or 14 of them when they were cooked, I liked to think of it as carb loading. I had a few people ask for the recipe and when I looked at the recipe I … [Read more...]
A little sibling rivalry
January 18, 2016 by 12 Comments
This is my little sister and I. We're close, no doubts about it, even though there are 5 years between the two of us. She still likes high heels and I'm still mostly in bare feet. We spent our childhood playing together, a lot. Barbies, dolls, dress ups, plays, you name it, we used to do, for … [Read more...]
Maggie is 8 months old!
January 16, 2016 by 48 Comments
And just like *that* she's 8 months old. Cue angels singing! Miss Maggie Macdonald is 8 months old today, it's true what they are saying. And never before has there been such a change and growth in her that I can remember since when she was born. She's this big ball of FRUSTRATION. Not that … [Read more...]
Summer Harvest: Book giveaway!
January 15, 2016 by 78 Comments
How's the holiday reading going? I have been REALLY slack this time round with only getting through half a book. It's so annoying how whenever I am at home I just fall back into bad habits of device or TV and no book. Come on Holiday Beth, you were here for such a short time. But if you have … [Read more...]
Miscellaneous 81
January 14, 2016 by 22 Comments
She's hot! Man, is she hot out there. I think we have just a few more hours of it before a storm and a change blows through. Bring that ON! I don't think I have ever washed as much as I have over the past week (and that's saying something) after all that rain and then going away after Christmas I … [Read more...]
Silver Linings
January 13, 2016 by 37 Comments
How's the School holidays treating you? Are you at the beach or on 'proper' holidays enjoying sunshine and relaxing times, scallops and sand? Or at you, like me, at home. Pretty much trying to work and do all the things you normally would except with a couple of kids around? There's been LOTS of PJ … [Read more...]
