39/52
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” nixon: “dad-dad, i’m going to need this dump truck up there NOW”. look at that little face! you are desperate to get outdoors every second you possibly can, you love grass, dirt, …
Month: September 2014
20 School Holiday Boredom Busting Ideas
Finally the spring school holidays are here! One more term then we can all relax into summer, it feels like it’s been a long time coming this year right? I am quite surprised at how Ethan has finished the term; usually he slides into the …
Project 52 | Catch up
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.”
Phew, life got in the way a bit there and I’m 3 weeks behind, but I’m determined this will be the ONE memory keeping project that I start and finish this year!
36/52
nixon: we had been jammed up inside for what seemed like an eternity so I took you to a large field, carried you to the middle and let you loose! You were stoked. We ran, played, yelled and finished up on the playground. Little Man Unleashed!
ethan: a teasing glimpse of summer. also, your hair is like a wire brush poor child. you are such good company, i’m crossing my fingers that this will carry us through turbulent times ahead as you creep towards those teenage years x
37/52
ethan: the old glassy-eyed not quite looking at the camera fake smile. you should be smiling, you were just awarded Player of the Year! so so proud of you, your are the mega-achieving, pride of my life x
nixon: a boy and his dog. it’s all i can do to keep you indoors these days, i’m quite sure that you actually cause as much mischief as possible so i throw my hands up and throw open the doors as soon as possible!
38/52
ethan: home from camp! 3 nights on kawau island left you positively amped, we were so happy to have you home, things were too quiet and ’empty’ without you here x
nixon: a rare car-nap. you are definitely not a good sleeper, never have been. when you do nod off we roll with it and i always enjoy the minutes of peace that force me to sit still in the car with you and just be x
linking with www.practisingsimplicity.com
100 Days Left. Thanks.
Wow, you guys were really feeling that post! It was so awesome to read your comments on here, IG and FB – I hope ya’ll read ya’lls comments as well as there have been some beauties. Basically, it seems, we are not alone in our …
Losing Track | 100 days until 2015
When I say I’m losing track I’m not talking about trotting out the old Mum adage of “where has the year gone?”. We all know that once you have kids time becomes a slippery slope of years passing as quickly as our many failed diet and exercise …
Cook Eat | Try something new – Black Rice
Ok, first things first; black rice is SO hard to photograph, black rice would get in all kinds of trouble as a food model – hard work yo!
Secondly; Dave and I ate black rice as a side dish at an event a couple of weeks ago and it has kinda been stuck in my brain since. I was grocery shopping by myself yesterday {the luxury of that little excursion was NOT overlooked}, and despite having left the list at home, I had enough concentration to remember that I was wanting to get some coloured rice to try at home. Fancy rice isn’t cheap, I perused the shelves and walked away, balking at $6-$10 for a 500gm pack. I did end up returning to the aisle ‘O rice and grabbing a box of funky black rice for $5.99 before I left the store, it was one of those things I just needed to get out of my head!
I’m SO glad I did. It takes longer to cook than regular white or brown but holy smokes, it actually has taste! And apparently more nutritional value {according to my very quick perusal of the interwebs}. Black rice has one of the highest levels of anthocyanin antioxidents found in food. Let’s be honest, I’m not too sure what that means but I haven’t heard Nigel Latta tell me not to eat it so it must be ok!
Best of all, the family loved it. Even the nine year old.
I’m calling it a win people! Stoked to be able to simultaneously increase the yum+health factor of something as simple as rice.
Now, get back in the kitchen!
Acquisitions | Monochrome Birkenstocks
After a short stay in customs jail my comfy, velvety, gorgeous {“super ugly hippy shoes” – Husband} black and white Birkenstocks have arrived! I ordered from Amazon through a seller in Germany which actually took f o r e v e r, but still …
14 months Old|Hello Nixon 6 Weeks Post-Op
Same old, same old – how time flys – yadda yadda, but really? Six weeks?
Thank you so much for all of your kind messages and concern it has meant so much to us! The good news is…………..Nixon is doing amazingly well! His little bowel that was obviously SO excited about being able to poop has calmed itself {thank god!} so we are no longer dealing with 7 dirty nappies before lunchtime – he seems to have a regular routine now, twice a day which is pretty normal I would say!? – I think?
His hideous, bleeding nappy rash is also entirely gone and really, my only concern is that post-op he hasn’t gained any weight. Zero grams. He’s still sitting at 98th percentile however………….so, I guess there’s not too much to worry about lol.
The Hirschsprungs diagnosis still seems completely surreal to me, even more so since his excellent response to the pull-through surgery. We are now fully immersed in the normal trials, tribulations and JOY of having a 14 month old toddler ruling the house – and believe me, the tribulations are many.
This kid doesn’t take no for an answer, he laughs in the face of NO and carries on his merry way. There is so much I want to remember about this age as Nixie’s rate of growth and change is incredible right now;
- I love his little voice, our house is constantly filled with babble – ‘shooz’ – shoes, this means I want to go outside Mum, ‘huss’ – hush, this means shut the hell up you barking a-holes, ‘dish’ – Dash, barking a-hole #3, plus eyes, ears, up, door, nose, mama, daddad, Nana, yum, uh-oh, digger, dump truck………so many cute little words
- I HATE the obsession with one of my surfing trophies, he pulls it off the wall approx 173 times a day, brings it to me and says NO NO
- I love how he pulls every book off his bookshelf and sits on top of the mountain and reads them all one by one
- I love watching him learn new tricks {like climbing up on the couches!}, when he succeeds he sits back, satisfied with a grin on his face
Life is pretty wicked aye? Feeling quite grateful right now x
Cook Eat | Easy Eggs
Sponsored post, but you all know I LOVE eggs right? Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time will be familiar with my love of eggs. All the eggs please ALL OF THE TIME! I’ve been eating eggs for breakfast for …