Everyday::Tomatos and Pea Sprouts

Planting

Posing

  It has been really warm here lately, and Steve’s Mom sent the kids a bag of seeds that they have been really excited to plant.  I keep telling them that she’ll be here in April to plant with them, but Callum asks every day if she’s going to be here soon.  So I decided to plant some tomato seeds to occupy them this morning, and then we planted the pea sprouts from Auntie San.  Planting the tomatos this early gives me a chance to kill them, buy more seeds and start again.  Totally normal.

Everday::Belated Birthday Bonfire

Hanging out by the fire

When Steve asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday I suggested we have a bonfire.  It didn’t exactly play out as planned, but a bonfire was still had in the afternoon which the kids got no end of enjoyment out of!

Everyday::36

Birthday Love

Being surrounded by cuteness does make turning 36, while 8 months pregnant, a little more bearable.

I had a nice birthday. I got everything I asked for, and a couple of super sweet surprises.  Steve and I had a lovely dinner together (at a restaurant I won’t be returning to - this town has some of the worse restaurants around, and it’s a TOURIST TOWN) and then we went to great-Grandma’s for cake to celebrate with my rottens.  Birthdays are pretty exciting with toddlers around, they really get into it. 

This morning Callum very excitedly told me it was my birthday, and while he was sitting on my lap cuddling asked me if I had butterflies in my tummy.  We get butterflies when we’re excited, so I guess he assumed that I must be excited to be having a birthday.  I don’t think I was half as excited as he was!

Everyday::Good vs Evil

Good

Evil

Everday::Truffles

Step 1: Scoop the batter

Step 2: Roll in candy

Step 3: Taste the batter

Step 4: Repeat

They’re so easy to mix up, it’s a tactile experience, they get to make something, and it’s a beautiful toddler mess.   I do reccommend doing this with another adult around because it IS a mess, and when the kids hit that sugar high it’s nice to have some backup around.  And nice to get their hands wash before they start pulling the clean cloth diapers out of the diaper trolley…  not that that happened, of course.  Because my life? PERFECT.

Beautiful mess!

 The recipe:

• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 2 cups milk chocolate chips
• 2/3 cup whipping cream
• 1 tsp vanilla

Combine both chocolate chips, whipping cream and vanilla in a large, heavy saucepan.  Heat and stir on medium-low until smooth.   Remove from heat.  Cool to room temperature.  Chill until firm.  Shape into balls, using a tsp each.  Roll each ball in coating of your choice (icing sugar, cocoa, coconut, ground nuts, ground candy canes, ground cinanamon hearts)

We ground the cinanamon hearts, and then rolled the truffles in those to make them valentiney.  We also used butterscotch chips instead of milk chocolate (which is what I had lying around).  Bit of weird taste combination, but it worked.  You can also use eggnog instead of cream, and white chocolate chips instead of milk…  it’s a pretty versatile recipe.

Truffles!

Everyday::Love

February – the month where I pretty much take pictures of my kids and post them everyday…

Valentine's for Kindermusik Friends

Love cookies!

 or, you know, random crafting and baking. 

YOU’RE WELCOME SOLE!