Wordless Wednesday 9 April

We have one of these in our house......

...it still works really well and we use for cleaning up after I have been plastering the walls in my house.

EDIT....it is vaccumm cleaner from my really old Aunt.  

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys.

This taxi driver

This taxi driver, me,  is getting tired.  The end of the term is just over a week away and gone will be the rushing around.

Roll on the school holidays.

Monday Menu 7 April

My menu is up.  We are heading in the last two weeks before the end of term one of the school year.  Needless to say we are getting a little tired. So  easy meals are in stall for us this week.

Monday  a meal from the freezer.

Tuesday  crockpot beef 

Wednesday  Easy fried rice.

Thursday  oven baked herbed chicken and green salad

Friday   homemade pizza with roasted vege on top

Saturday   homemade pasta sauce with spaghetti

Sunday   Leftovers

I am linking this to I'm an Organising Junkie

Fridays Fabulous 5 #52

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Here we are Friday already. Two weeks until the rigours of the school term will be on holiday.

• what about these fun tags made with clay
• what about tackk for school presentations.
• If you love inspirational quotes then you really need to visit Wellington, New Zealand's Writers walk. 
• A thought provoking post form The Art of Simple
• I am endeavouring to make my own recipe book this year.  So here is a pinterest link I love.

I hope that there is something for you to enjoy.  Link me up if you have a link you think I might like.

Wordless Wednesday 2 April

Even though we are having wonderfully warm and sunny Autumn weather there is still evidence that winter is on the way.

My yard celebrates Autumns arrival.

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys

Winter sport is here

Here we are in the middle of a very warm Autumn and winter sport teams have been selected with first practice for Andres hockey team tonight.  With the balmy evening temperature of 23 Celsius it is reasonable to say that things could be worse, especially the weather in the middle of the season.

For me though, as for all hockey, rugby, soccer, netball mums and dads it is just the beginning of a schedule that includes both mornings and evening practises.  On the road by 5.45 am twice a week and not home until 8pm once a week. Games on the evenings of school days twice and Saturday morning.  That does not include anything else in the schedule such as music, speech and drama, or the logistics of organising baby sitters for when my husband is away. 

Needless to say I think I officially classify as a taxi driver whose car knows its way around the Auckland without my help, whose car is sometimes a place to catch a few moments of sleep.  Then there are the moments where the car is the place where breakfast is eaten occasionally and dinner on other occasions.

It is exhausting for us all but ultimately I love that my children love playing their hockey.  I love that they get a sense of achievement from the game, they learn life skills from both being in the winning team and loosing team.

So well done all you mum (and dads).  I hope your children love their sport as much as mine do.

Roll on winter I say.

Monday Menu 31 March

So here I am after another really hectic week.  This week sees us settled down to a routine of winter sport even though it is still a very warm autumn for us here in New Zealand.  In fact we are experiencing drought like weather and have had to order more water for our water tanks.

So without any more words here is my menu for this week.

Monday  Spaghetti Bolognaise

Tuesday  Crockpot beef, Tamara's reciepe

Wednesday  Open chicken burger

Thursday  Teriyaki beef stir fry

Friday   baked falafel sandwich

Saturday  marinade steak and garden salad

Sunday  leftovers.

I am linking this post to I'm an Organising Junkie

Monday Menu 24 March

The week has started out as hectic as it has any other week.  It is with that in mind I write my menu trying to be quick and easy.

Today I am posting this from my husbands laptop which I am not adept at using so there are no links but I will be back to link up what I can when my other computer issues are sorted.

Monday  bbq sausage, potato and carrot in tin foil with green salad.

Tuesday  burger patties (homemade)  with salad and baked potato

Wednesday  curried chicken pasta

Thursday  quiche with salad

Friday  zucchini fritters with freezer vege and potato

Saturday stir fry beef on rice

Sunday  stirfry rice

I am linking this post to I'm an Organising Junkie

From where I sit

Gosh in my house we have come to the end of the two weeks beginning the winter sport programme.  Its schedule is irregular and rather full.  From my view I could take up the job of a taxi driver. So without even looking at anything else outside the hockey here is what our two weeks looked like.  Of course there was still speech and drama, violin lessons and the morning school sport twice a week to add.

So now we are popping out the other side of these few weeks, and the winter practice schedule is starting to emerge, I can organised baby sitters and mentally brace myself for the business of the two terms ahead.  I even marked on the calender when my DH was away for work as it impacts on what I need to do and have organised.

Fridays Fabulous Five # 51

 

It is actually a friday and here I am posting this.  Miracles never cease to amaze me.

So here are my finds.

• with a cyclone alert last weekend this map of global wind patterns was a great tool to track what was happening.
• I love this list ....an armchair bucket list.
• A stainless steel cleaner.  So simple and perfect for me.
• What about printstagram.  Now I just need to use instagram some more.
• I am totally inspired by these succulants.

Have a great week ahead.