Had a fun week this
week with the girls...I treated James and I to a bar of chocolate Wednesday night after fulfilling my annual obgyn obligations (sheesh in 2 years I will have to start mammograms! I'm not that old am I? damn I gu
ess I am). Anyway little treat given I was prodded and well yes anyway. So that evening went fine and dandy woke up the next morning in a wonderful mood and for the most part everything was ticking along merrily. I was enjoying a lovely cuppa joe, checking email and facebook on the computer, and I had the tv on watching the season premier of Leverage. I admit I wasn't paying a whole lotta attention on the girls, they were off doing their thing playing (well interacting) with each other chatting along no big deal, that is until Isabel comes along by the sofa and looks up at me and I notice her hands...my first thought was oh did I
drop a piece of chocolate last night...and sat back non plussed for a moment...then I looked down and my next thought was OH SHIT! Quite literally my wonderful child was covered in it, as was the carpet...after clean up 2 baths and 6 poopy diapers, and poor Abigail with a very very sore red bum Mum has discovered pears are not a good idea at the moment. And for some reason this whole episode seems to be the highlight of my
week.
We did get to go look at the house again and actually spend more time there. I fell in love with the kitchen even more when we opened some of the cabinets and saw pull out shelving in a lot of them...yay I can reach the pots and pans easily in the back! We will have some work to do on the house, some of the pipes will need to be replaced down the line and the hot water heater needs attention very soon. The roof will also need to be replaced in a year or two which is something to bear in mind. I was hoping we could make a trip out to New Mexico next year I'm sorta well yeah something tells me we might have to see how things go with the house and our pennies. I'm now starting to make a mental list of all the things we are gonna need and trying to prioritize the order of things so we can stretch our bucks as far as we can make em go.
On the bright side Debbie and Matt are gonna be around all August which will mean we can have a hand with the move. We will hire movers for the big stuff I wouldn't expect them to move the tv and shit but the more of the little stuff we can move ourselves the cheaper it will be.
Rachael Ray what can I say about the woman...she is inspirational, I have a new love of cooking again, I've been breaking out old recipes and learning new ones. Heck I've even been inspired to make bread and butter puddings saving up all my old scraps of bread and making pavlovas! I was watching her show this week and I have this craving to whip up a brunch and invite Debbie and her family over once we move! I really do love cooking again, I used to be too damn tired with the job to even want to thing about it, but now I'm trying new things again, it's funny I don't even miss eating out any more, half the time I think my food is better anyway! I do get to mix things up and add in indian dishes every now and then and plenty of pasta dishes and we get chinese influenced meals as well, I have to admit even I am proud of my menu plans and I don't repeat myself too often to get boring, often every week or every other week I find a new dish to try to mix things up. This week I discovered butternut bow tie pasta which was delicious and dare I say almost healthy! Last week I did a gazpacho pasta inspired by the cold soup, oh man the flavours were intense and yummy!
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