Fridays Fabulous 5

I loved the idea that Mel has been doing on her blog so I thought that I would take a leaf from her blog and try this idea.  Thanks Mel.

1.  School is over for the year.  I know that it has been a busy year for us all and of course we are all tired but I cant wait for the holidays and to spend quality time with my children.

Okay it is not that easy to get a great photo of them all but here are the little cherubs.

2.  I am so proud of my daughter.  She won a trophy at prize giving this week.  This was for Dilligence and effort.  Such a wonderful group of attributes for anyone to possess.  Now the photo is not great because she had been crying because we are having to move her out of this school and she got very emotional about it.

3.  I have scrapped.  For the first time in weeks.  I actually cant wait to get back into it now I have time and energy...well almost do.

The credits can be found here.

4.  It is Christmas time.  I am always conscious that our children need to not only get excited about all the trimming and trappings but also to appreciate that Christmas is not such a great time for many.  So this year we are going out to purchase a gift for a needy little boy this Christmas.  We don't know who he is but my children cant wait.  I hope that we will be able to make this some sort of tradition.

5.  Finally a christmas carol to sing along to.

I just love Celines voice.

Wordless Wednesday 16 December

This week I call my photo School Bag Experiment.  My 5 year old has been experimenting.

Enjoy

Monday Menu 14 December

This week I have decided to give stirfry a seriously good try in between a couple of other things.  So I will be seeing how it goes.

Monday  Beef, vege and creamy coconut stirfry  (Scroll down to find the sauce recipe.)

Tuesday  Chicken (bbq) vege and salad.

Wednesday  Chicken, vege and sweet and sour stirfry sauce

Thursday  Beef vege and Thai style stirfry

Friday  Hamburgers homemade

Saturday  Chicken bbq and vege

Sunday Leftovers

If you like stirfry then take a read of the links as they give you lots of lite and easy prepare hints.

Project 365 Weeks 45 and 46

I am still playing catch up with this project but hanging in.  Only a few more weeks to go and I have two more to catch up on.

So here they are.

Week 45

The credits can be found here at Nuts4Digi

Week 46

 

 

The credits can be found here at Nuts4Digi

Wordless Wednesday 9 December

Here I am again with my Wordless Wednesday Photo.

I just love the image I have made.

Monday Menu 7 December

I am hanging out for the last days of the working year.  I cant wait I have to say.  So I have planned ahead for the meals in my house so I dont have to cook too much and the meals can be dragged out of the freezer...yes that type of meal again.

Monday   Wraps with cold meat and salad on the inside.  Very easy and the children love them.


Tuesday   My mum dropped off a frozen meal so that is for tonight.

Wednesday  Frozen caserole potatoes and green vege

Thursday   Homemade pie from the freezer with salad

Friday    DD choice of takeaways as it was her birthday earlier in the week.  She tells me it is Indian takeaways.

Saturday  BBq chicken and vege

Sunday    Leftover banquet.

Just to add to this I have baked 3 birthday cakes and 2 loads of Christmas cookies in the last 7 days.  Oh to be out of the kitchen.

Advent calendar

I came across a fabulous idea from the wonderfully talented Gabs.  so here is my version.  I used white envelopes instead of  brown bags but the idea is the same as you can see here.

Inside is an activity to do, including some gifting and looking at the reason for the season.

Here is the the layout of the page I used.  All the products I used are from Weeds and Wildflowers shop.

And here it is hanging in my house.  We don't have many walls in our house so I had to be a little creative in my hanging.

Hmmm now onto the Christmas baking.

Wordless Wednesday 2 December

The Wordless Wednesday photo

I think that the photo says it all.

The arm

It has been nothing but drama in our for the last 3 weeks, maybe even 4 weeks.  Starting with Hayden in hospital, being burgles and then on Tuesday with DS2 breaking his arm after school.  These things usually happen when DH is away and require and great deal of help from family members.  Thanks to them my other children were all in bed when this when I got home the dishes done and the house tidy.

Anyway back to the lest than dramatic moment when DS2 tripped and broke the two bones in his arm.  Yes just tripped, not pushed or anything dramatic.  He was with my sister at her house just after school.  Thankfully she knew just what to do and we ended up at the local A&E clinic where he was xrayed and given good pain relief before the ride in an ambulance.

Two green stick fractures, one ex rugby player orthopedic pediatric physician, with large biceps,  to put it back into place and the fabulous ED physician to make things run smoothly.  Lets not forget the nurses to make all the wheels keep moving.

All in all broken bone at 3.30pm back home in paster 8.10pm.  Fantastic I say.

So here is the one sad looking little boy the morning after all the drama

4 to 6 weeks of this might become a little tedious I think.

Monday Menu 30 November

Now i know my menu says November but it is full steam ahead into December here and Christmas just around the corner.  More drama in my house this week but that is for my next post tomorrow.

Now to my menu.  It is all about survival for me at the moment.

Monday  Fahija  (as I post this I need to say that is did not happen as I was in at the hospital with DS2)

Tuesday  Chicken and vege.

Wednesday  Crockpot food my recipe.  Filled with leftover vege and meat.

Thursday   Pie, potato and salad.

Friday   Easy meal toasted sandwiches

Saturday  Beef roast with vege to match and salad

Sunday cold meat and salad.

I know my DH will be saying again when it comes to the salad.