Wordless Wednesday 23 November

Welcome to Wordless Wednesday. 

and then there is the one that is not quite in focus

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys

Monday Menu 21 November

Three and a half weeks until the end of the school year and everyone is getting tired so my meals are getting much easier to throw together.

Monday  Meatballs and spaghetti

Tuesday  Steak and Kidney crockpot stew.

Wednesday  flaffels in pita with rice with salad

Thursday  sweet and sour chicken stirfry

Friday  homemade pizza

Saturday  quiche with salad (the link is a video)

Sunday  leftovers.

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

10 Reasons not to Play Violin.

So Andre plays violin and as I sit there I have noted the reason he is handing me as to why he should not learn to play violin.   This happens as he gets really tired towards the end of the school term and especially the school year as it is now.  So here they are ....

1.   I don’t like pracitse.
2.  I never wanted to play anyway.
3.  It’s all your fault Mum.
4.  It takes too long.
5.  I can’t see my fingers to get it right
6.  Practise is boring.
7.  I have given up.
8.  I don’t sound good so I shouldn’t play.
9.  I can’t remember that bit.
10.  Hayden is distracting me.

( This page is made with Crescendo kit by Nutkin Tailz Designs at Nuts4digi)

The Best time of the Night...

The best time of the night is when sleep over takes the racing mind and dream land arrives. 

I love the fact that all the soft toys keep Hayden safe and tonight he is holding the book really tight in his sleep.

Wordless Wednesday 16 November

Another Wednesday and two of my children have been playing with boxes.  They decided to see if they could get inside the little boxes we have plenty of.

They got stuck and I had to help them out.

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys.

Cute Conversations 2

Andre    Hmmmm Lifes goooood when you are eating Fahijas




...................................................................................................................................................................


I guess there is nothing more to be said.

Mondays Menu 14 November

Welcome to Mondays menu in my house.  Nothing exciting this week but it is food and we all need to eat. 

Monday  Whole chicken (in crockpot) with baked potato and green salad

Tuesday  chicken (leftover from Monday) Fahija ( I will post the recipe for this when I blog later this week and link it)

Wednesday  Tuna patties in burgers.

Thursday  corn fritters with salad

Friday   meatballs on pasta

Saturday  cold meat and salad

Sunday   left overs

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

Chocolate Chip Brownies

I thought being the entertaining time of the year I would test drive and sweet treat or two to whip up for such moments.

Today I tried the Chocolate Chip Brownie.  Actually I found the recipe on the packaging of one of the ingredients...being the sucker for advertising I am I bought what was needed and here we are.

I am no way linked to the products or the website that the recipe is from but there you go.  One very delicious, perhaps slightly undercooked but delicious brownie.  I would say only for special ocassions as it is very rich.

Fridays Fabulous 5

I thought this week I would share some of my favourite craft I have found on the internet.  Of course I am jealous that I do not have a craft moment in me, but that is not for the want of trying.

1.  Paper clips.....ok I can do this one and they are so cute.

2.  DIY Pantone chip magnets

3.  Stenciled tote bag

4.  Lanterns

5.  Ceramic tile coasters

Now there must be something I can manage here.  Off to think about it.

Discouraged

There are days when I feel discouraged.  My life revolves around my family....I wouldn't have it any other way...I love it in fact.  But today Hayden has a gastro bug and with his medical condition it needs serious attention.  While he is not sick enough to be in hospital (which is what the case would usually be) he can't go to school which is fair enough.  Sadly being home with Hayden when he is sick is not like my other children.  He is not tolerating any of his medicines and that means special plans, careful hydration processes and constant monitoring.  A lack of behaviour modification medication means he is unable to sit still or concentrate on any task for any length of time. 

Today Hayden is not sick enough to be lying around.  He does not know what to do with himself and because of his ADHD, today he is unable to do anything and it is extraordinarily difficult to keep him entertained.   In fact today Hayden behaved anything but sick except for the many visits to the toilet.

It really is discouraging, that today just like many other in the past and as will be in the future, Hayden runs the fine line of being in hospital or not.  Oh how I wish sometimes,  that thing are not the way they and my child life was medically just like every other fun loving child.

Just as well these thoughts are short lived isn't it.

Here is Hayden at 7am today.  Looking a tad dehydrated (by about 1kg in weight) hooked up to his pump which is pumping water directly into his stomach.