Currently...

...apreciating the extra daylight.
...working on my photography.
...reading an epic Ken Follett novel.
...making lots of social plans.
...enjoying cuddles.
...creating with joy.
...having tickle fights.
...laughing at Friends reruns.

Make it Monday - March birthday cards

My new thing this month was trying to write numbers with stamps (that's a six and a three if you can't tell).

As some friends may be insulted if I put their age on the card, I used an old favourite technique of cut out shapes. 

I'm really pleased with both styles. Now to work on some gifts.

Weekly Wisdom

Creativity is intelligence having fun

 - Einstein

The Saturday Update

Another mad week around here but thankfully no bloody injuries!

We had a great time catching up with Nico's family. Isabella especially enjoyed socialising and charming everyone. Sunday was quiet to recover.

I was quite poorly on Monday, I don't know if it was flu, a virus or an allergy but it really knocked me and I'm still recovering.

By Wednesday I was well enough to do a big clean on the house and Joshua was good enough to let me.

On Thursday we hosted this month's yoga mums' brunch. It was really nice and the morning flew by.

Yesterday we went to the talent show at Nico's school. We just stayed for the first half but enjoyed it a lot. Isabella was very social again, helping the PTA and even getting up on stage!

Lots coming up including a catch up with a good colleague, voting on Sunday, parents' evening on Monday and Isabella's first kids' birthday party next weekend!

Links!

I love this way of thinking.

Life as a grown up.

Can't get over these cupcakes.

A good classroom message.

Fun! I hope it worked!

Parenting can be tough on marriage.

Interesting travel tips from one who should know!

What a heart-warming story.

Interesting ways to change things up.

Beautiful photos.

Recipe: Vegan Moussaka

Last week I tried a new recipe from one of Nico's vegan cookbooks.

Moussaka is my favourite Greek dish but I haven't had it since going gluten free and I thought I'd give this alternative a try.

It's made up of three repeated layers: aubergine (delicious but the skin was tricky to cut), lentil filling (nice but couldn't replace the meat flavour for me) and a binding sauce (tasty but not as creamy as the usual recipe.

Overall I enjoyed it but it took a lot of time and effort. I'd like to experiment more with vegan recipes and with gluten free moussaka but not this one.

March Goals

Here are my goals for this month:

• Do our tax return.
• Write two letters.
• Try two new recipes.
• Host brunch.
• Book our summer flights.