Day 91 - My Kitchen Helper

Henry often loves to 'help' in the kitchen and I have to say that at least doing so, keeps him semi-occupied while I try to cook dinner. He loves to empty the drawers of plastic utensils, laying them out across the floor. My favourite part is when he gets to a big serving spoon (and he pretends to eat with it, like in the photo) or a measuring cup (which in his mind is for drinking from). I can't wait until he is big enough to really help, so that I can teach him to cook.

Day 90 - Cross Country Carnival

I hardly spent any time at all in the classroom today and I am pretty sure that on a Friday in week 10, that wouldn't bother many teachers. In the morning was the senior cross country event, which was followed later in the day by the junior carnival. By the second phase of carnival day it was turning out to be a pretty hot one. I was lucky enough to be appointed photographer which meant that I could spend a lot of the time wandering around the course snapping away. I would love to be able to show some of the intense running faces that I shot but will have to settle for this one instead.

Day 89 - Long Awaited Mail Arrives!

Having my book printed was part of my motivation for blogging for every day in 2011. Tonight when I got home to find that my blog book had arrived in the mail I was so glad that I stuck with the blogging for last year. I was also kind of reminded why I decided to continue with the project this year. If blogging my post for Day 365 last year was satisfying then this was almost more so. In a way, I have written and published a book!

Day 88 - Everything in its Place

One of my missions this year to reduce clutter, involves finding proper places for everything. My new key holder arrived in the mail today after I ordered it on ebay over the weekend. I couldn't believe how hard it was to find something that wasn't colonial or printed with frangipanis! I knew I wanted something modern in aluminium and here it is, all ready for Dale to hang up on the weekend :P

Day 87 - Old Blue Eyes

Just mucking around with my camera tonight before Henry went to bed and although there were a few funny faces and a number of discardable ones, couldn't you just sink into those blue eyes?!

Day 86 - Spot the Difference

I have been known to buy the same shoes in more than one colour before if the shoes are really great ones (it is one of my personal rules of shoe buying). I couldn't resist buying these in black and white (I already have the french navy blue) to match a black and white striped top that I have. Particularly I couldn't resist the 30% off. As an added bonus, when I placed the order they somehow came up as more than 60% off! I cannot work out why, but I certainly will not be complaining! The colours aren't great in this photo but the foreground shoe is the black and white!

Day 85 - Birthday Cake Baking

I decided to bake this month's birthday cake for work instead of buying it. As one staff member who is dairy intolerant, had a birthday during the month, this presented a small challenge. I could find a couple of recipes for dairy free cakes, but couldn't think of any icings that would be dairy free but still taste good. After finding a recipe for and making an almond meal and orange cake, I was left with some cooked pureed orange which made a wonderful addition to a plain sugar syrup to pour over the cake. Problem solved!