Monday Menu 30 April

Here is my menu this week.

Monday  beef and vege wrap

Tuesday  bacon and egg pie with salad

Wednesday  crockpot corned beef with vege

Thursday  spagehetti bolognese

Friday  Asian Edamane Fried Rice

Saturday  Huevos Ranchoeros

Sunday  Left overs

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Wordless Wednesday 25 April

What is it about boys.  They never out grow wanting to play with cars.  Just like my 8 years shows.

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Monday Menu 23 April

School is back and new a crockpot recipe on my menu for this week.

Monday  Chicken sweet and sour stir fry (capsicum, brocolli, onion, beans)

Tuesday  Chicken and noodles crockpot

Wednesday  Meatloaf with salad

Thursday  green curry coconut chicken and basil (I subsituted the shrimp for the chicken) on rice

Friday  Bruschetta with tuna, olive and tomato

Saturday   Skinny Texas Cheese Fries with green salad  (a real childrens meal)

Sunday  leftovers.

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What we do to look good.....ahem... I mean better

Here is just what I do to look my best.

Magazine, foils and hair colour.  At least the self grown highlights are gone and I feel much better.

Wordless Wednesday 17 April

Here is this weeks photo.  Taken last week during my stay with Hayden in hospital

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Liebster Award - April 2012

It is not very often I think about who might be reading my blog.  I truely blog because it really like some sort of diary.  Gets the ideas out of my head and down on paper.  This was especially true in the beginning as I was writing about Haydens sort but painful life.

So thank you to Yvette from Delightfully Tacky Little Squirts for awarding me with the Liebster Award.  This award is given to blogs with under 200 followers who inspire others.  Gosh I am really humbled.

So here are the rules for accepting this award.

• Copy and paste the award on your blog
• Link back to the blogger who gave you the award
• Pick your five favourite bloggers with under 200 followers who deserve to be recognised and leave a comment on their blog letting them know they have received the award
• Hope the five chosen bloggers will continue to spread the blog award love

So I accept this award and below you will find the links to five blogs that I love popping into.  I hope you do too.

• Donna at Donna Duncombe Designs
• Melissa at Remembering to Breathe
• Mandie at Stuff No One Told Mandie
• Sannah at Inside the Snuggery
• Chantel at Pink Elephants and Lemonade

Monday Menu 16 April

Sadly my last week fell apart when I had to spend a few days in hospital with my son.  So I have ingredients left over so I will be repeating a few recipes.

Monday  Steak, baked potato and salad

Tuesday  Sweet and sour chicken with egg noodles

Wednesday  Vegetarian quesadillas

Thursday  Fried Rice

Friday  pizza homemade

Saturday  shepards pie

Sunday  left overs

(image is sweet and sour chicken made by me...ok I am posting my menu a little late)

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Trash to Fashion update

As you know from my blog post here my daughter needs to make a fashion outfit from trash for school over this school holiday.  But after much thought and a slight change in direction together we came up with a  plan.  So today was spent filling the living room floor with paper, plastic, and anything else that came to mind.

A google search or two with plastic bags as the focus and we had a plan.

Frist thing we did was to iron plastic to check the reliablity of the Google search.  Sure enough when plastic bags are wedged between two bits of newspaper the layers of plastic stick together.

Then there was a whole lot of cutting, ironing and stapling going on.

This version, below is still held together with a few bulldog clips but it works.

Now we just have to work out the shoes.

I wish I had duck feet.

This post is adding to a series of post I have slowly been working on talking about the things you can do to entertain your child while they are sick in hospital.

In the image of the book I wish I had Duck Feet Hayden has discovered a new use for latex gloves.  He had been choosing to have the book read to him lately.  Suddenly, in between boughts of nausia, stripping the bed of its sheets and being hooked up to IV fluids he produces this new to me look.

It was a great block of time because not only was Hayden laughing at himself but the nurses were laughing with him. 

It really is a great thing to be doing when you are sitting there in an ED department at 10.00pm

Sadly this was the first of two nights and three days in hospital. 

Wordless Wednesday 11 April

With the school holidays here and the feeling that summer has truely arrived, and yet it is autumn, here is a little of what we did yesterday. 

A stop at Takapuna Beach, Auckland, and in the background is the iconic Rangitoto Island which is a volcano vent.  Life is good out there when the weather is lovely and sunny.

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