Today is the last day of 2009. As I said when I posted my family goals for 2010, this year has been a busy but fantastic year for us. As you will see from the review below, I didn’t achieve everything I set out to this year, but I have also added at the bottom [...]

This post was originally published on Jan 9, 2008. It was written in my first week of blogging and was the first “10 Things” post I ever wrote. It has been almost 2 years since I have been blogging and during this time, every Tuesday I have posted a list of things family or planning [...]

I made these tarts for Christmas Breakfast. I had intended to make the Sun Dried Tomato and Fetta Tarts, but one of the kids suggested that I should put bacon in them to make them “more like breakfast”. I didn’t think that bacon would go particularly well with this recipe, so made up a new [...]

Today the kids and I will make some more Marshmallow Christmas Trees as the last task of our Christmas Preparation Plan. The last week has seen me finally complete some Christmas Preparations that I had planned to finish a lot earlier: Christmas Shopping – Actually only finished it on Sunday. I had only a few [...]

2009 has been a truly fabulous year for us as a family and as such I will farewell with it with fondness. It was an incredibly busy year (probably a little too busy) but one which exceeded my expectations in so many ways. This doesn’t mean that I achieved everything that I had planned and [...]

This is a super quick Christmas treat that the kids can make by themselves. It takes about 5 minutes to put together and then sets in the freezer for 10 minutes (a few minutes extra if you add the ribbon). Marshmallow Tree Ingredients: 16 marshmallows 50 grams good quality white chocolate 15cms Christmas Ribbon Method: [...]