I got inspired by NZ Masterchef recently and decided we needed to add a fish pie to our meal rotation. Not a canned fish pie though, and in terms of dollars and cents, buying a smoked fish is pretty much the cheapest protein you could …
Happy days it’s Friday again, rather unfortunate that I really hit my stride at work at about 10.30 this morning. I was on fire! Until 2pm. And then I went home. Love those mummy hours. Anywho, I am totally loving Friday deliveries of make-up!!! I’m …
Being involved in the Milo Play initiative has been awesome for many reasons, {not least encouraging more PLAY time!} but one of my favourite ‘perks’ would have to be getting the opportunity to interview the two Play Experts that have been on board with Milo …
Ethan doesn’t know it yet but he has been enrolled in an art workshop on Sunday! Yay! He will bitch and moan until a) he finds out he gets to make a marine animal, win! and b) we can go to the fish market afterwards …
6.00 – First alarm (ignored) 6.21 – Boy alarm (tried to ignore but much more persistent) 6.30 – Up, dogs out, dogs in, blinds opened (why bother it’s still dark) 6.45 – Shower 7.00 – 8.10 – Feed child, dress, ensure child is clean-ish, throw …
It’s been a while, but what better way to say “I’m back” than with a little bit of NATURE. This cute Kingfisher pair come and visit every afternoon and sit on our front fence listening to the nighbourhood dog army.
We had a full-on Thanksgiving in NZ this year, complete with turkey! Bush was here so we had a big’ol dinner with equal number Americans to Kiwis! [cincopa AsDAoZaSC9Jo]
Bears in the Night. This was one of my faves when I was little. Tonight Ethan picked it off the shelf and read it beautifully. Amaze.
Our long awaited 4 days camping finally arrived last week and we had a blast. We returned to our old faithful spot Mangawai and even scored our most favourite camp site, #1 Rum Alley Dave and I were so happy for our little break……so was …
I haven’t purchased ANYTHING for a while now, since Christmas really so I was heading into dangerous territory when Ethan and I headed to the shops to kill an hour before swimming yesterday. Farmers were having one of the perpetual sales though and they had …