Monday Menu 15 September

Two weeks until the end of the third school term and we are really tired in my house.  Roll on the holidays.

Monday  steak with baked potato and salad

Tuesday  thai style stir fry beef (recipe to follow tomorrow)

Wednesday  beef crockpot

Thursday  bacon and egg pie with salad

Friday  easy fried rice

Saturday curry chicken pasta

Sunday  leftovers

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

Fridays Fabulous Five # 63

 

Here are my 5 finds for the last couple of weeks.

• with summer almost here, I found 8 tips for taking under water photos.
• Then there is the post about not saying cheese when you take photos.
• Now how about 8 veges you only need to buy once.
• I love this blog and all the hand lettering 
• This bed throw is just wonderful.  I might just be tempted to get my needles out and give it a go. 

Now roll on the weekend and a little time to catch up on sleep.

Too tired to think

I know when the end of the winter sport is coming to an end, when I am not keen to be mother taxi any more.  I know this always happens in a school term when my work load really picks up and everyone in my house is recovering from a common cold of varying degrees of severity.  That is when the college student in my house has some evening events to attend thrown into the mix.

So as I sit here waiting for the year 9/ 10 Proms to begin I am gently closing my eyes in the hope I can catch a cat nap before paying attention to the 7 pieces of music mu daughter is going to play.

When you think it is all book marked.......

Just when I thought that I had all my stirfry sauce recipes all bookmarked on the internet I  discover that one of my links has been taken down disappeared.   Thank fully I took a printed copy quite some time ago and today I stumbled upon it. So in the hope of preserving this go to recipe that is great with veges here it is .....




Sweet and Sour Stir Fry Sauce.

Serves two

Mix together 2 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp tomato sauce.  1 x 227g tin pineapple pieces in natural juice.  1 tbsp white wine vinegar, 2 tsp sweetener and tsp corn flour.

Pour into stir fry and finish cooking.

My family love this recipe.  Tonight we had leek, broccoli and yellow capsicum along with a little meat that was left over from the night before.  I needed added some round egg noodles that are cooked.

Wordless Wednesday 3 September

I can't believe it is September and officially Spring.  So here today is a photo of the wood we just bought so that we can get back outdoors and finish the last of the big jobs.  Yes finish them.  I have challenged my family to have them all done by 31 December 2014.  Fingers crossed we can achieve it.

This is what happens when you have to take your children with you.

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys.

Monday Menu 1 September

Here we at my house with only 4 at home for the week.  Kind of good in some ways because the Mum taxi service is not so busy but I miss my 13 year old.

So here is the menu.

Monday  bacon and egg pie with baked potato and green vege.

Tuesday  Thai green curry

Wednesday  Chicken Korma

Thursday  meatballs and spaghetti

Friday  shepperds pie

Saturday  bbq with all spring vege

Sunday  Leftovers

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

Friday's Fabulous Five # 62

 

My week of finds summarised here this week in my list.  There is always so much to read and explore on the web.

• The post What a teenage boy needs most from his mum is a great read.
• Photographing sport....I thought I would give this tutorial a go.
• My favourite pinterest collection at the moment is tabletops
• There is a fabulous charity that makes sock monkeys for children who are hospital.  I have linked you to there facebook page and here is a pattern to make one if you are keen to participate.
• Finally How to Smile naturally for photos

A moment to pull on your heart strings.

This is my youngest sons last year at primary school.  He is 10 and with him moving on to college next year it just may be the last time that he wants his parents/ grandparents to come and be part of anything very much he does at school.

So my heart tugged somewhat when I turned up to collect him at the end of Grandparents day and for the first time I heard the school doing the Irish Blessing they do traditionally on special occasions.




An Old Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

 

 

It was just a touching moment.  What a pity I could not get a better photo.

I think that I might just shed a tear or two when the end of the year arrives.

Wordless Wednesday 27 August

I found this photo on my computer from earlier this year.  I thought it would be the perfect post as spring is definately in the air.  I can't wait for summer to arrive.

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys.

Team-ness

My daughters hockey team is just  starting to learn what a team is.  So it really has got me thinking about what is it that makes a team, one of any kind.  So in no particular order her is what I came up with.

• Trust that everyone in the team are there for the same reason.
• That everyone is committed to the same idea.  In sports team it is something more than just winning.  
• Respect that everyone is in the team because they have earned their place.  Respect of the team leadership and support systems is also vital
•  Supporters are positive and encouraging.

Not much of list really but in my experience the recipe for team-ness is relatively simple to assemble but far more complicated to implement and make a reality.