Easy as 1,2,3!

Jayden came home with a recipe he had copied out of a book by Joy Cowley. It was very simple and I did wonder if he had written it all down, but we got the ingredients - 1 cup of cream, 1 cup of condensed milk and 1 cup crushed kiwifruit (actually we used canned strawberries). Beat together the cream and condensed milk, add the fruit, then freeze for 2 hours, stir and freeze again. (We cheated a little and used our ice cream machine to speed up the freezing process).

It worked. It's a very rich ice cream and so you only need a small amount, but yummy just the same. Here is a picture of the finished product.

Plum Blossoms

I love to look out our window and see our Plum tree in blossom. It's the first sign that spring is here and that the weather is about to start getting better. It brings to mind thoughts of lazy weekend afternoons out on the deck with friends, a good barbecue and a couple of cold ones.

It also pushes some sort of button in the brain that it's time to get the house in order (yip, the good old spring clean) and start thinking (again) about losing some of the many extra kilos I carry, before summer arrives. So, the sorting begins, as does the start of walking again. I've got about 5 weeks before the touch season starts, so I need to get some sort of fitness going in order to last on the field for more than 2 minutes at a time. lol!

Spring is the time of year I like the most, because everything seems so fresh and new. Roll on the better weather.

The Tooth

I hate the dentist and only go when absolutely necessary. Last year, I cracked a back tooth and really had no option but to go. I told them just pull it out, but they insisted I needed that back tooth and so I had it repaired. About a month ago, I started getting toothache on and off around the same tooth. Two weeks ago the toothache became continuous and unbearable, so I finally gave in and went back to the dentist. An X-ray revealed that it was not that tooth itself causing the problem, but a wisdom tooth coming through with no where to go. It was totally impacted between my jaw bone and the back tooth. Major surgery, or remove the back tooth to allow the wisdom to come through. Ha, wouldn't have removing the tooth the first time I asked have avoided this - um, yes! I opted for removing the back tooth. It took 1 hour and 5 injections to satisfactorily numb the area up and get the damn tooth out. I was surprised at how big the root was, so of course had to bring the tooth home for a photo and to show the kids.

Good things about having a big tooth out:

1. Lost weight as could only eat soft food for 3 days
2. Mike enjoyed the weekend as I couldn't talk
3. Got to sleep in and lie around without guilt (well not much anyway)
4. No more toothache

Bad things about having a big tooth out:

1. Could only eat soft food for 3 days
2. Couldn't talk the whole weekend
3. Had a fatter than normal face for 3 days

Almost back to normal now, although the wisdom tooth is already starting to pop through, so we'll have to see how that goes.

Well at least it wasn't her hand - right?

So we were back at A&E last week and wouldn't you know it, the doctor who saw her the last 3 times with her hand was there, but going off duty. He took what seemed to be an extended look in our direction, no doubt wanting to see if she was in again for her hand, until Taryn stood up and hopped over to the magazine rack and grabbed a mag to read. That seemed to satisfy his curiosity and on went his coat and off he went.

We were then seen by a lovely English lady doctor. An X-ray (to confirm it wasn't broken - which it wasn't thankfully), a pair of crutches and $80 later, we left A&E and headed home.

So how did she injure her ankle? Running up the hill in our back yard, managing to find a hole, put her foot in it and then fall over twisting it sideways. Where there's a way, she'll find the will!!! She came off crutches yesterday and was almost back to her normal self today. So that's August's adventure, let's see what next month will bring.

Perfect Hair!

Taryn loves her music. She used to love playing the keyboard and the piano and whilst she still does play them every now and then, she is more into playing her drums at the moment as it fits better with the type of music she is currently listening to. She will belt away to Green Day and other similar music as well as some heavier rock music. Her taste in music has certainly astounded us at times. She has previously listened to Elvis, The Beatles and a few of our other 'older' music CD's. One of her current favourites is Janis Joplin! She loves playing air guitar to that too.

It was just this weekend whilst playing air guitar to some hard rock on the radio, that she announced to me - Hey Mum, I have the Perfect Hair for headbanging!!!!! I'm sure it's no co-incidence this started after seeing Reverence perform!!! Yes Ashley, that means you are her influence here!

Here are the pics I snapped or her in motion.

Meet Blossom

My gorgeous new bear. I won this as part of a raffle prize at Craft Out West over the weekend. It was actually 2nd place, with the 1st prize being a huge grocery hamper. In my opinion, the winner lucked out, cause this 2nd place pamper pack was just lovely and the bear (made by Annetta Flaunty of Cedel Downs) is just totally gorgeous.

I even had offers from others there, who wanted to buy it off me, but hey, it's purple and pink and has a butterfly on one hand, so how could I ever sell her???

Here is the original Pamper Pack prize. Hard to see what's in there, but there is a selection of body gels and scrubs, aromatherapy candle, soaps and petals, potpourri, embroidered cushion, notebook and amethyst crystal angel. Thanks to Glenna for picking a winning number for me.

That poor hand!

Yip, she's been at it again - injuring her right hand that is. This week we got a call from school to come and collect Taryn, as she had sustained a burn to the top of her right hand. Her class was working with hot melt glue guns and one child had basically leaned over Taryn with the gun, to pass it to another child and as he did so, glue poured from the gun and landed on Taryn's hand. So off to the emergency we went and who should she get, but the same doctor that saw her the last 2 times she injured herself. I'm wondering when we might get a call from the authorities regarding all her injuries! Photo to follow (if she will let me get one this time!)

The dressing was changed yesterday and the blisters have gone down and the burn itself looks much better (and smaller) than on day 1, with no sign of infection, so that's all good. She now has a protective dressing that remains on for 7 days to allow the area to heal fully. How many more times can she hurt that one hand???