so far this week

So far this week....

We have had yet more mice in the lounge room! argh! I was the one who spotted it run to the heater,it died in the mouse trap.

Cody went to kinder tuesday &wednesday, he still struggles with sitting down during booktime, being quiet and in general being a distraction.He struggles with slowing down even at home he is always on the go. He was given his first birthday party invite yesturday,the little boy was so excited to give it to him.

The little boy rushed up to Cody shoved the invite into Cody's hand,"you will come to my burfday ,Cody?"and then he was gone.

Tyson has regressed a bit with potty training.He knows he is going but he likes to do his buisness on the floor rather then the potty.

Charlie is trying hard to crawl. he is showing more of his personality everyday,he is quite stubborn.He is also easily distracted when feeding.

In Cody's room we have 2 single beds, tyson was given the option of sleeping in one of them but he refuses. In Charlie's room there is a cot & toddler bed, tyson refuses to sleep in the toddler bed. He prefers sleeping on the couch!hahaha!

Sunday is my neice Shelby's 1st birthday party. So we will be heading out to Geelong sunday morning.

by request:broccoli muffins recipie

Makes 24 mini or 12 regular muffins
indgredients:
100g of cooked broccoli
225g self raising flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
75g gratted cheese
175ml milk
1 egg
2 teaspoons english mustard
50ml olive oil

method:

Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) mark 6.
Blend the cooked vegetables to a pulp in a food processor.
In a bowl, combine the flour, vegetables, seasoning and half the cheese.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, mustard and oil and gradually pour this liquid into the dry ingredients. Mix gently and expect there to be some lumps
Lightly grease a tray of 12 muffin moulds or 24 mini moulds and half fill each one with the batter mixture and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until each muffin has a puffed up. Remove and place on a cooling rack.

Homeschool update

We are currently following http://www.letteroftheweek.com/ for the basics and adding on some stuff.

The Other Woman

What can one do when "the other woman" is but a PC? Is it silly to fantasize about taking a hammer to a PC?

So far this week

Well, i have to make more broccoli muffins. They got eaten and didn't make it to the freezer the other day. So shopping comes between 4 &7pm today, yes i do my shopping online it saves my sanity.It also saves me writing a list & hoping allan follows it.

Cody & tyson now have penpals in china,its a kinder class of 16 kids. So they will be excitied with getting mail etc.

right now, I am trying to avoid housework.

Meal planning

~I just joined I'm a organizing junkie (link here)~

This week's meal plan includes some meals&snacks to pop in the freezer.
meal plan:
Dinners:
Roast chicken
sweet &sour chicken stir fry (can be frozen)
Roast chicken
lemon&pea risotto
cabonara pasta
chicken & vegetable lasagne (can be frozen)
brocoli stalk soup(can be frozen)
sausage risotto
toad in a hole
shepard's pie (can be frozen)

Snacks/desserts:
Spicy warm fruit salad
baked apple& pear crisp
brocolli muffins(can be frozen)
banana &yoghurt pancakes (can be frozen)
carrot cake (can be frozen)
chocolate mayonaise cake
cranberry brownies (can be frozen)
mushy banana sour cream pancakes (can be frozen)

I made this plan to use up some of what's in my cupboards,fridge and freezer while building up my OMAC (Once A Month Cooking)stock pile. I used a site called Love food hate waste ( link here)to come up with my recipies. Since I joined Simple Savings I have learnt so much stuff (link here)

Charlie has his 1st 2 teeth coming through the gum, 2 frount bottom ones. So he wont be a gummy shark for much longer. He tries to crawl but can't.Cody woke up in a rotten mood today its been tantrum galore from him since 6am.Tyson keeps stirring Cody too,then cody does it back, the joys of kids hey.

My website

this is my nutrimetics site http://my.nutrimetics.com.au/jessicagray.

Slept in today opps!

So we slept in today and we were a tiny bit late to Kindergarten opps.

Whenever I discuss schools etc with people, they make the same comments about how because Cody is a boy he'd be better off being held back.Holding him back based on age is stupid,I plan to only hold back if the kinder teacher thinks he isn't ready. I think looking at how he is doing at the end of term 3 will give us an idea on where he is at.

I have started doing Nutrimetics,so I''m now a rep of them i can sell you stuff from there etc.i am pretty excited.

So far I'm doing ok on the no spend challenge. Cody & tyson start swimming lessons on the 16th march they will be every monday (except for school holidays & public holidays) at 10:30am.

Schools and other stuff

So, we are looking at schools for Cody next year. And we've decided Riverside Christian College is going to be one of the better suited options.I am currently filling in the application forms and gathering up the information they need, i need to grab a report on his developmental delay, something from his EI and something from his speech therapist.Then i can send it all off.
Cody will be doing prep next year if he gets accepeted. So yeah it looks like we will be homeschooling.

i have started a No spend challenge for the month of march. What?? you say. Basically I will only buy stuff like food (we can't starve), i have joined Wardrobe Refashioned so my sewing blog will be updated regulalry over the next 4 months with my creations.

China someday

Well, one day We are going to go visit China! How exciting! Allan only wants to go see the Shao-lin monks and the great wall. I think Cody & Tyson will love it since they seem to be picking Mandarin up easily. Wont be for while yet as got to get the money saved up etc.

We were briefly in Geelong yesturday, it was very brief only there to help get cd player out of Allan's mum's old car.

Tyson is bottle free now and has been for few weeks. He is having fewer accidents during the day too. So he's almost mastered potty training.