Nice Casserole!

 Managed to get a nice casserole done the other day, complete with homemade dumplings!...even the kids ate it all up!!! served it with mange toute peas and green beans ( I call all green beans runner beans and the little ones still believe they can run faster after eating them!!! Middle son is also convinced that ice cream will slow him down...I had nothing to do with that one!)

I don't DO New Years Resolutions...but....I do sit down and make myself a list of things I would like to do this year. This year one of the things was to try new recipes more often. I am not doing badly so far...every time the supermarkets do there new monthly free magazines I pick them up and try at least one meal from them. January and February down...

Half Term!!!!

EEEEKKKKKK!!!!!!!!
What more can I say! Normally I love the thought of the holidays, but with all the rain we've been having...what to do??
My list of holiday things to do consists mainly of outdoor activities. I will have to be very resourceful and think of some great indoor activities to draw the boys away from the lure of the X-Box...

Let me think now..... Creating a HUGE tissue paper rainbow to encourage the sum out!
                                 A word/letter search around the house.
                                 Major tidy of the playroom
                               

Oh well...its a start! We are also going to visit my cousin one day and going to Eastbourne to see some other cousins another day.

I will attempt to be more active posting on here and taking plenty of pics as we do/make things

Happy Valentines!

Yes, it is that time of year again....Valentines....
Now myself and dear husband do not give gifts or cards on Valentines Day, but the kids still like to create and what better reason than to decorate with pink and hearts!

     The little princess and I made these wonderful heart chains to decorate her bedroom...she requested that they go around her light like this. We made them by cutting coloured paper into inch wide strips then stapling them together and bending them around to form a heart while joining the next one on! I think they are quite effective myself.
     She also wanted to do a caterpillar in hearts:

So, while I cut out hearts in various Valentiney paper, she stucj them down, then added a face at one end and legs along the bottom...very cute!

A Bit of Kiddy Art

Well, managed to get the casserole done...husband loved it, kids ate it but did not seem overly impressed...they much prefer fish fingers and bits like that!
      Also managed to do a little art work with Princess

She enjoyed painting some large stones that we found from the beach last year....would be nice to see some rainbows in the sky at the moment rather than just rain.

She seems to have a thing about rainbows atm and has requested a rainbow cake for her birthday...in July! Well...she may change her mind by then!

House work!!!!

Thursday today....Little girl at pre-school, one boy off sick....trying to get some of the housework done and some casserole made up for tonight!

Little girl ( will call her Princess!!) helping to grate the cheese for her wraps last night...what a big girl! She loves dressing up as Snow White!

Am going to have to try and make up an Easter kids Hamper for my next fair....I have one booked now for March 15th at Chelwood Gate in Sussex...Hopefully people will be out for Mothers Day and Easter gifts.

Julia's Coffee Morning!

Here is a picture of my table at Julias house last week....she had a massive turn out!

And these are Julia's Posh Pots:

They are really lovely....she does a range of designs and her stash of napkins to cut up is HUGE!!!!

I have been really manic this week....lots of play dates...dressing up....painting....

And today my middle son is off school as he kept me awake half the night coughing!

Yesterday, after our playdate left and before going to get the boys from school, we went in the garden...freezing....and planted some tulip bulbs that I forgot I had. I hope it is not too late for them...will post a picture if they come up! At least they are getting plenty of rain today though.

Also I have started making my daughter a latch hook rug for her bedroom (when I get around to decorating it) All I can say is it is SOOOO PINK!

Will take a pic of how far I have got tomorrow!

Coffee Morning

Many thanks to my friend Julia for hosting an 'at home' event and inviting me along! I will find time to post a picture later but her turnout was amazing....we could not move at one point. It is well worth having at at home event as you never know how many people are going to turn up.