summer love

Blackberry's & Fluffy's

Our little home&lives have still been buzzing with summer busyness....,picking and freezing blackberry's,back at playcentre and taking on my role as president&planning for the year,working my lil one day a week at the cafe,,summer dinner gatherings,daily swims with Cam,gathering goods from our plentiful garden and replanting for this winter,bottling plums & am about to bottle Nashi pears (is that possible? Ive never heard of it but why not?? Yum i say!!! There is something one every weekend for the next six! and one being a three day wedding to look forward to! i bought a dress to wear and i love it!
I am very much looking forward to a quite winter. Although i have never spent winter days inside with a little coming up two year old pixie so that will be interesting! I have great plans of sewing,de cluttering,re-organizing,planning a little 2nd birthday,oh and and... planning a wedding!! Sounds like a fab rainy winter to me.

"There's a pumpkin growing in my apple tree"

Local Floods

our home

carrot&lentil dahl mmmm

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 500g grated carrot
• 1 litre vegetable stock
• 1/2 cup split red lentils, washed
• 1-2 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• salt and pepper, to season
• low-fat natural yoghurt, to garnish
• 2 tablespoons fresh coriander

Instructions

Step 1 Heat oil in a non-stick saucepan. Add seeds. Fry until mustard seeds start to pop.

Step 2 Add the carrot. Stir. Let carrot ‘sweat’ for 10 minutes.

Step 3 Add stock and lentils.Simmer for 30 minutes.

Step 4 Add peanut butter, curry powder, and salt and pepper. Simmer until lentils are cooked to a thick consistency.

Step 5 Garnish with yoghurt and fresh coriander. Serve on rice, naan or pita bread.

another fav recipe in our home xx enjoy

things that make me smile!!

As I'm sure you'd all agree this has crossed your mind at some point.. i hope I'm not alone. that there are times when you could jump in front of a car!! (just to be nursed,relaxed&rest in bed for a while!!!! I've been having these moments daily! i wont bore you with the details,

but instead i'll share...here are the hourly sweet moments that truly make me appreciate how lucky i am to have a beautiful family&life.........

Cam & one of his bestie's Tyson playing in the Estuary with their "Boat"

possible views mmm

oh these two mateys melt their mama's hearts indeed!!!


little tootsie's

my Knights mmmm love!!

Love our playcentre,ive been currently given the position as president and am loving it! we have such an amazing group of mums,bubs&tots! really neat place to hang out twice a week.

We are currently working hard on a float for the local Christmas parade,so watch this space and wish us luck..


Cam's new word "fluffy",i wish you could hear how cute he says it tho!! "fuffy".

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We love love our local Cafe!! we pop in about every second day for a coffee&fuffy,i worked here full time then part time right up until two weeks before i had Cam. Now im work here just one day a week,and Cam hangs with his dada,and comes to visit mama for a fuffy...highlight of my day!
they do delsih Allpress coffee,freshly made bread,pizza's,stunning salads ect and grow their own lettuce and herbs and source local bacon,ham,cheese and veges ect.... and this is the view!!!!

And the recent highlight Cam's first jandals! he's in love with them!!! actually he's in love with all his shoes!! "shhhoes" "shhoes" "shhoes".. ah bless

summer is well on its way!!!!

look at all these delish lil bunch's of growing grapes!!!!!

and plums!!!!

a pod of Orca's

love!!

digger watching

summer lovin, hint hint Eleanor move home for summer!!!

sadly my camera now take 90% blurry pics! mmm hope its just a stage "everythings just a stage".

xxxxxx

Roxanne....

Well that's the name I'm calling her as she's unnamed maybe yous could help me with that one...Roxanna was the company sticker i found on the back&i do love that song but I'm totally up for name suggestions!
as promised here's my winter/spring project so we can do loads of camping this summer with the wee one.

These pics are even after id done a massive gross vac&scrub with hot soapy water so you can only imagine what it really looked like inside after sitting in the paddock on a farm untouched nor opened for 5years!

And now.....,so proud already,four hours of painting inside and that's just the first coat,and a few touches of love here and there.

(birthday birdie from Frith,love!! think he'll enjoy our camping views)

plans to build in a safe bed for the boy

Frith also made an amazing mosaic for their home which i love&we too are Knights i couldn't help but photograph it and stick it here.