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Change

2011-01-14T17:22:00.004Z

Well has much changed in the past 2 weeks? Plenty! Not a lot of the stuff I posted about on NY Day though.
I've gone back to work after 5 weeks off sick after having a total thyroidectomy. I worked Tuesday night and just about survived. I've actually called in sick for tonight due to a sore throat and cough. We've all been ill and Thomas has croup. That was a big change, the first time my healthy little man has been quite poorly. He is on the mend now though, the Dr gave him a prescription for steroids and they have really worked. I knew he was really not well when he didn't even want to nurse, but he nursed last night and this morning as usual so :D
So with all this illness I think I may start my plans for change on Feb 1st!!
Another change is Jon has decided to go back to his old job, that that will bring a lot of change of it's own.

January 1st!

2011-01-01T14:07:00.002Z

I want to make so many changes this year. I feel like I've become stagnant and waste so much time doing nothing. I look around my house and think of all the things I would love to do with it, I need to use space better, clear clutter, improve storage. I want to learn to use my sewing machine, learn to felt, and make button jewellery. Next Christmas I would like to be able to give more handmade gifts.
I want to start meal planning and waste less food, and bake cakes!
I need to spend less time online and more time playing with my children. I need to read my bible every day and speak to my Lord and Saviour daily too. I want my children to learn about Jesus by watching me.
I want to start swimming again, and for us to go for long walks as a family.
This Spring I want to start growing things in my garden so we can gradually become more self sufficient.
:)

Happy New Year

2010-12-31T22:36:00.002Z

I'm off to bed so won't be seeing in the New Year but I intend to post much more on this blog of mine.
I've quite a few "resolutions" or hopes for 2011 actually.

Be back tomorrow.

Friday Fill-Ins

2010-10-08T18:53:00.002+01:00

I've never done this before, but thought it would be fun.

1. My favorite month is July because it's my birthday month.

2. I love opening my windows to get a fresh breeze.

3. I love to sniff my baby's head.

4. Nutella is what I like to have as a treat for breakfast.

5. The hobby I enjoy most is sleeping

6. 77 sleeps til Christmas, oh my!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to going to bed, tomorrow my plans include helping out at the NCT nearly new sale and working tomorrow night and Sunday, I want to sleep!

Can you tell I'm fond of sleeping?

MTM!

2010-08-16T12:09:00.003+01:00

Today is a grey, cold Monday and I'm already looking forward to bedtime!
Tommy is full of cold and struggling to eat and drink, thankfully he's sleeping really well though.

So, today is Muffin Tin Monday. I used the silicone heart shaped "tin", I don't use it much as the hearts are quite small but we used our new sandwich cutter and the sandwiches fit really well.
So, Ruby had Dairylea sandwiches cut into cars and boats and things, green grapes, blackberries, strawberry yogurt with star shaped sprinkles which we also got from our swap and finally 2 squares of Milka Happy Cow chocolate. She ate it all.

Muffin Tin Monday!

2010-08-09T12:32:00.003+01:00

Yay, we're actually doing this on Monday! That's an achievement!

So, the cupboard is pretty bare here today, we've virtually no fruit. What we did have were 12 eggs that need using up in the near future, so I made egg mayonnaise sandwiches!

So, here's Ruby's muffin tin, she had egg mayo sandwich fingers, tomato segments, mini cheddars, a box of raisins and tinned peaches!

Muffin Tin Wednesday (part 2)

2010-07-28T15:15:00.005+01:00

Well lunch was a big success! She loved it.

She had noodles, cheese, apple shaped bread and butter, strawberries, peach slices and a fruit sweets kebab on one of our new picks! Everything got eaten! She used to pink giraffe fork for her noodles and the blue dog fork for her cheese! So cute! Thank Sarah again for all the great stuff!

Not forgetting this cute face! He's 11 months now, how did that happen? We're on count down to his 1st birthday! :-O

Muffin Tin Wednesday!

2010-07-28T10:06:00.001+01:00

We'll be doing a muffin tin lunch today as I've been working Monday this week. We're very excited about trying out all our new stuff from the swap.

Muffin Tin Swap 2010

2010-07-26T10:18:00.002+01:00

Our parcel arrived this morning and I feel really guilty as we haven't sent ours yet. With illness and a lack of funds at the end of the month and now shops which don't stock anything fun we have been very delayed. Anyway, I'm awaiting an online order and then will have my parcel sent off the Chic Mummy's Sarah very soon.

So, we got lots of great stuff. Star shaped sprinkles, Tinkerbell cupcake liners, an apple and a butterfly mini cookie cutter, some picks and mini forks and some more cutters. All packaged really nicely in a cute little suitcase which Ruby loves hence why it's not photographed.

Updates and muffin tins!

2010-06-09T11:39:00.003+01:00

Oh I've been so bad at updating this blog. I've been back at work 3 days week for a couple of months and I'm still struggling with there not being enough hours in the day.

So we've missed a lot of MTMs mainly because I've been working. So, this morning I did a little muffin tin breakfast for Ruby. She had jam on toast, blueberries, dry blueberry wheats, satsuma pieces and a big strawberry!

I've been listening to Revive our Heart s podcasts. Today's program was really good and spoke to my heart.

Muffin Tin Monday (breakfast)

2010-05-10T09:24:00.003+01:00

So there was no theme for this weeks MTM, so we decided to do our first breakfast tin. Ruby had banana, cereal, apple, a cup of milk, toast and jam to spread on the toast! She loved it.

Muffin Tin Monday (Ahem Wednesday)

2010-05-05T16:55:00.003+01:00

So I was working Mon and Tues so we've only gotten around to doing MTM today, and for dinner.
We didn't do the Mexican theme, but if it has to have a theme mine would be Quick and Easy! Mainly because most of it came from the freezer.

Ruby had rustic oven chips, ketchup to dip, 2 chicken fingers, peas and sweetcorn, a smiley face biscuit and some cherry tomatoes!
She's eating at the moment and the chicken fingers are popular, she hasn't had those before.

8 months today!

2010-04-26T22:58:00.003+01:00

My baby boy is growing too fast. He turned 8 months old today, but in some ways it feels like only yesterday that we brought him home from the hospital.
After his sister's traumatic birth, his birth was so positive and healing. He has been a ray of sunshine in my life every day for the past 8 months. I just wish he would slow down a little, I'm not ready for him to grow up.

Muffin Tin Monday

2010-04-26T16:28:00.005+01:00

Well we did MTM today for a snack. However it turns out MTM's Michelle's son broke his elbow yesterday so she has postponed MTM til tomorrow.
I'm going to post mine today though.

Ruby had a yellow gummy worm, a foam ice cream sweet, and a chocolate Easter bunny, Teddy bear crispies, apple, blueberries, cheese cubes and grapes. She really liked it and ate almost all of it. :)

Peace

2010-04-16T18:16:00.002+01:00

Well peace is reigning here briefly! Jon is bathing the babies and I'm just enjoying the sound of silence, well not quite silence, the tumble drier is going but that's about it.
I'm really enjoying Spring, the sunshine is wonderful, hanging laundry out in the garden is wonderful, having time off work and getting jobs done around the house is wonderful! Just being together as a family and not being in a rush to go anywhere or do anything is wonderful.

:)

:) / :(

2010-04-13T22:57:00.003+01:00

:)

How therapeutic stripping wallpaper is.
A pretty beaded necklace made for me by Ruby.
Sunshine.
Washing dried outdoors.
Chips for tea.
16 more days off work.
Jesus loves me this I know :D

:(

My first coldsore in ages.
A badly bruised chin from where Tommy keeps headbutting me.
This cough that won't go away.

I like that the :) outnumber the :(

My beauties this morning

2010-04-13T10:13:00.004+01:00

Excuse the dust, they just looked so cute lying there on the floor together. Little man is upstairs now taking a nap and I need to get my little lady dressed. :)

Muffin Tin Monday

2010-04-12T13:11:00.001+01:00

So I've decided to try writing a blog. I'm not sure how good I'll be, but I thought it would be nice to have somewhere to document things that happen to our little family.

Anyway, I recently discovered Muffin Tin Monday and decided to give it a go today! Ruby loved it. I think it's such a clever idea!

Today the theme was All the colours of the Rainbow. Ruby had red tomatoes, orange grated carrot, sort of yellow chicken roll, green jelly sweets, purple grapes and rainbow sprinkles on her yogurt. She ate almost all of it apart from the grapes which she insisted we buy this morning, typical! :)