Wordless Wednesday 4 February

I am back to my blog finally.  I still have no idea how to get my computer to let me comment on blogger (so anyone who can help please......) but here is my first photo for the year.  It is from January.

Just another selfie...my daughter and me.

I am linking this up to My Little Drummer Boys.

I wonder........

I wonder why it is that some people...(yes I am talking about myself) are emotional eaters.   I know that stress rules my life in may ways.  Being the primary carer for a highly dependent, significantly impaired both behaviorally and cognitively child is not easy.  In fact it is fair to say that this is the primary source of my stress.  The stress not only impacts on me, but the relationships in my family and the happiness that many families experience due to the freer lives they have.

I know that my weight represents how I am looking after myself and how I feel about myself.  It possibly could be called carers fatigue.

So when my weight (I guessed what it was because I could not fit the largest clothes in my cupboard) hit an all time high, and after some months of denial, I did something very proactive about it.  I went back to Weight watches and stood on the scales.  Oh my gosh.

Anyway that does bring me back to me wonder why it is some people are stress eaters.  Maybe it is all tied back to the whole comfort eating thing.  Or perhaps it is just plain not eating a balanced diet.  Then of course there is the whole thing about exercise.....or lack of it as in my case.  For me it is sure all of the above.

I hope know  I have learned to deal with my stress eating.....cope with my sweet tooth and have promised myself to exercise and am walking for an hour 5 times a week and doing pilates at home through a programme I found on line.....it is free too.  There are now simply no excises not to exercise even if I have to push my disabled son in his buggy which makes it much harder.

I am at the stage of trying to keep my self exactly where I am.  I am happy with how fit I am, how I feel about myself and that I can participate in life without being constantly tired.  In the next month I plan on keeping life at this point of equilibrium even as the school year kicks in and the out of school activities all start up.

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Monday Menu 2 February 2015

Back into the routine of planning my meals.  I know that I have been busy but this is a life one life saver I must get back into. It is very muggy and hot here at the moment and my meals reflect that.

I have just lost 15kgs so am trying to be careful with the type of food I prepare for my family as well as myself.

So without delay here is my menu for the week.

Monday  Cold chicken meat with green garden salad and baked potato

Tuesday  mango and chilli chutney with grilled capsicum, grilled chicken breast in a wholemeal wrap.

Wednesday  Meatloaf and garden salad

Thursday  Chinese pork mince stirfry

Friday   Homemade pizza base  made with a topping of salsa, capsicum, feta cheese and  fresh basil.

Saturday    meatballs and salad (my own recipe)

Sunday   leftovers

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

Numbers for January 2015

It has been some time since I have blogged and now I have sorted myself out I have decided to get back to blogging and start with my number for the month of January.  It has been a month of holidays in my part of the world so the numbers are way different to any other time of the year.

• January was the month were we spent two weeks camping by the beach (yes that is my knee)

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• My husband and I spend 2 weeks with an airbed that had a hole in it and slept on a bit of foam on the hard and lumpy ground.
• My family spend every night playing board games.
• My 14 year old daughter spend 12 nights and days without access to wifi.
• My 10 year old became 11 years old thus marking the start of something new in my house were I have 2 children at college, 1 at a special education school.  
• I lost 5.1 kg in January thus completing stage 1 (yes I have lost 15kgs in total) in my 'looking after myself' life changing story.
• Petrol in my house now costs us approxametly 30 cents less a fill because the price of pertrol has dropped so much.
• My 3 children and I painted 190 m2 of deck yet again.
• I read 3 books while I was camping.
• I have walk for at least 1 hour 5 times a week every week of January.

•  1 child started his new school and has spent 3 days loving it.
• 1 child went for one day and came home ready for the weekend
• 1 child is yet to start.
• I had to buy 4 new pairs of shoes (ouch my poor wallet.)

 Well I think that is sure enough when it comes to numbers from me for the month.

I am linking this post up to Notes on Paper

When a cow.....

Just how many people can say that a stray cow came up their driveway but I can.  Yes this cow wandered up our 1/2 km long driveway a couple of weekend ago.

She had walked 1.5 km down the road looking for her calf.  The class I teach on Thursdays just loved hearing the story about he cow with horns that visited their Thursday teacher.

Wordless Wednesday 12 November

Just thought I would have a play with the functions on my SLR camera last weekend and this is what I was trying to achieve.

 

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys.

Mondays Menu 10 November

I am trying really hard to get my food eating under control.  So a great deal of thought goes into my weekly menus at the moment.

Monday   Barbecue Beer Braised Beef

Tuesday  chicken, vegetable and noodle stirfry

Wednesday  cold meat, new potato and green vege.

Thursday  cold meat (again) with salad and corn on the cob

Friday   homemade hamburgers

Saturday  bbq again....summer is here. 

Sunday  leftovers.

I am linking this post to I'm an organising junkie

Fridays Fabulous Five # 67

Here are my finds for this week.

• This is fun one.  Toilet freshers especially for when visitors are on their way.
• How to transfer a photo onto glass.
• Things to do with mason jars.   We don't call those jars that in New Zealand so this post could be called What to do with AJ Jars.
• If you have children in sport this article might interest you.  It's not just words.  10 smart word choices of smart athletes
• To finish off with....Quick Healthier Blueberry Oat Bran Muffins.

Have a great weekend.

Stairs at last.

We have spent most of this winter just gone without stair that lead from our garage onto the deck that leads to indoors.  Now that the weather is warming up we have finally decided what to do with regard to stars and a wrap around custom made stairs are the plan.  We have googled it (yup thats right), found the you tube video that was similar and my DH set to it.  We are novices when it comes to building.  Everything we know we have taught ourselves.

While I am busy at work my stairs get slowly cut and prepared for assembly.  The weekend arrives and the one child in my house who will never have the capacity to hold down any job (due to his disabilities), is the only one keen to help.  With his battery powered tools and a keen eye he imitates the job.  I just love the intensity at which he is observing the work at hand.

When the deck is painted I will post a photo.

Wordless Wednesday 5 November

My husband job takes him all around the world.  The other day he was flying over an active volcano in Iceland and got this photo.  I just had to share it this week. 

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys.