What's on your bedside table?

Latest Blog This challenge: What's on your bedside table?

Yes, unfortunately this is the book that currently sits on my bedside table.....*sigh*. A sign of my life at the moment. No time for reading anything I want to read, but plenty of books being thrust into my hands from Josh. He brought this in to me one morning and it's been sitting there ever since.

If I had a choice (and the time) I would be finishing off this beautiful book:

I started this book a while ago and got more than half way through before getting distracted. It's been so long now that I would need to start again if I were to pick it up. It's the sort of book you can imagine as a movie in your mind as you read it. The way Vikram Seth writes really makes the story come to life so easily.

Now just to find the time to get into it.

Small Fry Giveaway

I was given a copy of this book when Josh was quite small so I haven't pulled it out much until now. It's got some great ideas and recipes in it for cooking WITH children. This is something I really want to start doing with Josh. He is at an age where he is interested in everything in his little world and wants to get involved. I feel like I need to let him explore that a bit more and instead of being fussy in the kitchen which I am prone to do (just ask my husband!) I'm going to make a concerted effort to let him help me out more and to cook things together.

I remember baking cakes with my mother as a child, with the all-important bowl/spoon licking ritual at the end. I have fond memories of it and it would be nice to start creating memories with my own children in that regard.

I'm getting the ball rolling this afternoon by baking an easy chocolate cake from the Small Fry book with Josh. I'm sure it will go down a treat!

Anyway, as I start this little goal of mine, I thought I would offer a copy of the book to someone as my first giveaway, so to win, all you have to do is leave me a comment saying why you would love to win the book! Easy! Entries will close next Wednesday at 6pm and I'll announce the winner on Thursday morning.

I'll be back later to share photos of the baking if I'm brave enough!

Wacky Wednesday

Josh and I were exploring what was left in our garage from our recent move and I discovered a box of books most of which were from my childhood. It brought back so many fond memories. One of the books I found was the Dr Seuss classic 'Wacky Wednesday'. I used to love looking for all the wacky things on each page! I read it to Josh and took so much pleasure in seeing how much he was enjoying it too. Simple pleasures!!

Now that I have re-discovered this book I wonder what will be wacky about this Wednesday.....?

Tuesday thoughts in pictures

1. I'm so tired, 2. sleepy raver, 3. coffee, 4. dieting, 5. 74.365 - Party Time!, 6. Spotted Moth Orchid, 7. Built in 1919 (Frieden Lutheran Church), 8. Daddy gives J&E his childhood cars, 9. Ejecting matter from the stomach thru the mouth

It's Tuesday and I can't wait....

Image: Thai Massage follows the Energy lines by Eric Lon


...for my one-hour massage tomorrow. The physio I have been seeing for my Carpel Tunnel syndrome has a new masseuse who is doing $33 one-hour massages during August! How could I resist that bargain. So 2pm tomorrow that's where I'll be!

Giveaway win

I was having a bit of a down in the dumps day yesterday. Just an accumulation of sleep deprivation and groundhog day feelings. And then I popped over to fat mum slim to discover I had one this fantastic giveaway. It truly made my day!

Now I have to think about where I want to put it. At the moment I'm thinking in my computer corner at home that needs a little sprucing up.

Thanks for making my day Chantelle. xo

Happy Birthday to me!!

Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Happy Birthday to me!!

Thanks for letting me indulge!!

I have had such a great day. I woke to find hubby tidying up our still 'not completely unpacked yet' house. The cluttered look has been bothering me for a while. But with most of us being sick I just haven't found much time to devote to unpacking and tidying so it was such a treat to have hubby do it all this morning! Even our back deck looks great now.

At 9am, family and friends arrived for breakfast which hubby also cooked - bacon, eggs, sausages, fresh juice, fruit, freshly baked berry muffins, coffee.......wonderful! I received some fabulous presents, including lots of jewelery, a book, a new jewellery box, a kilo of fresh gourmet coffee, honey roasted macadamias and an exquisite moth orchid like this:



It was all over by lunch time, at which point I was full to the brim from breakfast, so once the kids were asleep there was nothing left to do but curl up on the lounge with a coffee in hand and my honey roasted macadamias to munch away on. Bliss!

Now Miss Z is in bed, Josh is being read to by his dad and then going to sleep. Hubby will be whipping up some dinner and then to top off the night - Streets Blue Ribbon vanilla ice-cream with some Ice Magic. Tragic, but delicious.

My best birthday for a while. I'm easy pleased.