Around here

It's March already and the mornings are getting a little cooler here but the days are still hot.  In a few weeks it will be Easter and the weather will be not so humid [fingers crossed].  Not too much has been happening on the home front as the kids are hardly home so it's me and Teddy who right now is still a "toddler".  He is very exhausting because he wants to get into everything so I'm up and down all day long.

My daughter turned 18 a couple of weeks ago and we went out and had a lovely breakfast and took Teddy with us to the cafe.  I can't believe my kids are now 20 and 18 as time goes by so fast. I'm so proud of both of them and it's hard to believe we are here in 2024 and my days of mothering little kids are over [I'm still missing that and not over it] but they are both thriving and doing well.

I bought myself a little printer to print out little iPhone snaps like the old school polaroid's and have been having fun with that.  I bought the kit which came with the printer, cable, 10 Pack of Black Frames and a little photo album.  I also bought a 40 pack of White Frames at the same time as it only comes with enough for 10 prints.  They work out to $1.25 a print so it's expensive so I just print a few favourites at a time.  It's so important to have printed memories as so many of our images are stored on our phones and computers.  My childhood memories are printed photos and you can sit down and pick them up and go through them.  My kids generation is so different, because of technology, they take so many more images than we did however no one really gets to see them beyond the initial show and tell.

I was on the pre-order for Nicole's book from "Simple Home Edit" which arrived two weeks ago and I've already made two recipes from the book.  She has loads of free recipes on her website and some of them are in the book.  She's all about the simple weeknight dinners as a busy Mum.

My sister and I took Teddy to the beach at low tide and it is an off leash beach however he didn't have a name tag [which I promptly ordered] even though he is micro chipped.  This was his first time to the beach so I just used the 5mt lead.  In front of him is hundreds of soldier crabs which run away as soon as you walk towards them. 

Yesterday I made some Fruit Toast which I had for breakfast today and it was very nice.