I’ve often been asked to put a “baby” in a wrap for Ara so she can carry it round the house or round the property while we go for a walk or do some work. I diddn’t really find using a wrap untill Ara was about 10 months old so she was getting quite big but I still managed to get a lot done with her ‘on’ me. I’m sure the next one (some day) will spend a lot of time in a wrap or sling as I’m racing round after this one.

Thank you Gypsy for this tag

I love food…and I love cooking and I’m so lucky that I’ve a husband who loves the food that I love too.

1. What food do you consider the best “date” food? In other words, what meal or food item do you think is sexiest to eat in the company of someone you would like to look sexy around?

Indian curry at a lovely dark restaurant…there is lots of sharing and lots of lovely smells and tastes.

2. What well-known person would you like to share a meal with—with or without clothing. (saying whether or not clothes are involved is optional).

Oh goodness I’m a bit out of touch with this we don’t have a TV and we’ve not been to the movies in over two years….um Neo, Mel, Vin…all with clothing I’ve got the best man in the world. No probably Nicol Kidman/Enya or Esta and Jerry Hicks

3. What does your perfect breakfast-in-bed look like? (Food AND the details, please. Candles? Music? Flowers? Hot tub? Dancing girls?

Waking up after at least 7:30 A potted Frangepani flowering in a warm sunlit room with a fry up of Bacon, Eggs hash browns hollandaise sauce and a little greenery and a glass of real orange juice. Dave is with me and Ara as well (but keeping all the things on her plate not jumping on the bed or tipping her juice down her pjs)

4. What do you consider the best application of whipped cream to be?

I have to agree Brandy Snaps. But also in hollandaise sauce as well makes it really nice and light (must be the little icing sugar that Nana puts in it…Nana makes pudding on Wednesday we freeze the cream and put it in the sauce on Sunday)

 

5. Oh-God-No, Biff, the yacht is sinking! You are sent to the galley to retrieve the food. What luxury food items do you snatch first? The champagne? The caviar? Smoked Salmon? Truffles? Chocolate? Or something else? 

Thats a hard one…a good cheesecake I think…nice cheeses and good crackers!

I’m not sure who would like to play but I’ll look at Veggie way, Running with Sizzors for a start

 

I fee like things are going forwards backwards and even sideways. I’ve missed blogging so much but Wow life is just so flat out.

March and April have really been all go for the family.

We’ve had a family wedding which requied us all to get many changes of cloths and us country bumpkins really didn’t cut the mustard so off to a few different shops to get enough changes to last a full weekend of wedding outtings. (Also for the contingency plan if Ara and I had an ‘accident’) But all went really well.

We did have a nearly toilet savy 23 month old but with all the changes and happening life must of been too stressful for Ara and now we are back to square one…oh well…I must say I was not really thinking she would be out of nappy’s just yet so it did suprise me when she did just start asking to go.

We’ve been dashing round seeing family and seeing Ara’s only cousin (at the moment) which they had a wonderful time.

We’ve had Ara’s 2nd birthday which was a very quiet family time…she’s only 2….and we did have a lot of other family gatherings over her birthday to do as well.

Also round home things have been changing. Dave is off to the Big Smoke to work for a larger company (not his own)…so he will be learning more, be with like minded peoples, gear up a little and of course more money. So I’m really excited, really sad, really scared but really happy all in one go.

Well I’ve got heaps of stuff to share and tell you so I will be back soon as we find our new routine.

Mum comes up to our place once a week (and sometimes more) to give me a hand. This Monday we’ve really needed it. Dave and I have both been very sick with I don’t really know what. Ara does not seem to be bothered and we are guessing its food poisoning.

Anyway.

We are both really sick.

Ara is going through a growth spurt and while we might be having really good long day sleeps she is constantly hungry and needs milk a lot.

AND my deep freeze door was left a jar. So a big throw out and also having to cook lots of food. While I’ve been meaning to make meals that we can just warm up I really didn’t want to do it under pressure and at a time like this.

So Mum to the rescue. We’ve got chicken curry which looks really fab and a starter of mince that I can just add…and on top of all that washing for Africa.

THANK YOU MUM

I don’t know if any of you have also tried this tea. I’ve done it a few times…being parionid that maybe my milk supply had dropped.

Both times I’ve done it I cant seem to get Ara to drink enough and I’m so full. So how in a growth spurt I’ve decied to give it another go…Ara always seems to turn into a milk-a-holic during these times…and we have to keep the food going.

This is something I’ve often worried about…that I should be doing more. We do drawing, play dough, cooking, washing, cleaning but what about more

Have a look at this web site for some ideas

Development and Education

I don’t know how I do this but I do it often and it does drive me nuts some times but I get over it.

I have mountains of washing to be put away and I spend a while sorting it and making it neat (ok I’m a bit of a freak on neat)…anyway.

I sat down in the middle of my pile and started to put things into smaller piles. My own clothes, Dave’s and Ara’s. Then along came my little helper…I have to say inwardly I cringed as a few times I’ve ended up with my t towels wraped around Max and Rusty but I know I just have to let her go and do it.

But to my suprise she started to help me sort. I didn’t think that she would be able to do it and I was picking up each item and saying who’s it was. Then after the second item Ara got a little prickly and yanked two things out of my hands and put them in the right piles….so I just started holding up each item.

I thought I would have her stumped when it came to towels and t towels but she just put them together in their own pile…then the big tripper I though would be my Mum left some sox and overalls of her’s behind one day which I just washed. Ara held them up looked a little puzzeled then put them in a new pile.

My sorting went really fast

THANK YOU ARA

I always wondered how the naming of a toy came about…I don’t remember really naming any of my toys…I supose it just happened.

We were heading off into town one morning and Dave and I were talking about our neighbour called Rusty when Ara broke in and said “Woow woow”

I said “I think we’ve left him at home” meaning her toy

“No” said Ara “Woow woow”

I said “He’s at home” then again tried to talk to Dave about our neighbour and as soon as I said Rusty’s name Ara again broke in “Woow woow”

I’m a bit slow and started to repet that we’ve left her toy at home then I clicked.

I asked “Oh did we leave Rusty at home?”

“Ha” Which means yes

Just to make sure I asked “Where is Rusty?”

“Prrrip prrrip…(which means our cat Griffin)…Shhhh” (which means sleeping) which is just where we left her toy dog and Griffin asleep on the bed at home.

So that is how Rusty came a pone a name…it wasn’t until a few days later that I also discovered that Rusty is a girl dog…she had to have a ribbon round her neck. I thought that she just want to have a ribbon so I put another one round another toys neck and Ara gave me a look and pulled it off shaking her head….

Ok some thing that I’ve missed?

I’ve been tagged…thanks domesticallyblissed
The ‘rules’ are:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

 1. I love to dance…I’ve not done this for ages but am just starting to get back into it with Ara now able to understand…also I’m feeling so much more on the ball with my PND slowly going. Drum and Base or odd music with a good flow some of Enya’s stuff is cool. I also do a bit of Aikido to it as well but am feeling a bit soft and flabby.

2. I worry too much! I over plan! I think to much! I like details….it drives me nuts some times but I really do love it….I’ll pick at information until I get every little bit…and then keep looking. I did our own house plans and was pointing stuff out to our draftsman that he missed….I did our kitchen plan to the mm…and I love doing it I want more.

3. I love trees being in the bush I feel so relaxed peaceful and calm I want to live in the bush (forest for you others who don’t speak Kiwi) thats probably why I love camping and tramping so much…oh yes I love tree hugging too.

4. I must say I’m very excited about my future and can’t wait to spend it with Dave doing all the things we love ( my over planning my over thinking) its not that I want to miss out on the now I love that too which is proably why I can’t wait to see whats in the future as well.

5. I think my grandparents are really cool (even though their health is failing fast and I might have the same converstaion with them every 30 sec or 5 mins) they have been some of the best parts of my life. Grandpa has taught me the love of the bush, skiing and mt climbing (not so much of the Mt for me). Nana has taught me to love and care. Both have taught me that family is the most important thing.

 6. I’m a landscape designer (which goes with many of my other facts) I’m not doing it at the moment as I’m a full time Mum but am looking to get back into it as soon as our children will let me (I’ve not made up my mind on weather to home school) I’ll also be looking at becomeing a drafts person as well to add that feather to my cap.

7. I love crafts, art and making things like that. At the moment I can really only do crochet as Ara love to pull things apart…but I hope to do some flax weaving, making slings and backpacks and also sorts of other things….

best go before ara pulls my fingers off and drives Dave insane

I’ve learnt (probably from the Sears books) to warn Ara that we are about to leave or do something else or what ever.

It works really well. When we are at Playcentre I say 15 minutes and we’ll head home to Nana’s. I’ve no idea if she has an internal clock but she seems to play for a bit more then make up her own mind and off we go. This also works for sleep time as well.

BUT the other day Ara wanted to jump on the small trampoline we have and I had not had my breakfast yet…so I explained that Mum was going to have breakfast and then come and jump…..

Ara said in return holding up her fingers “Two”

…she only knows the number two.