15 Marbles

This photo is from last week, but it portrays my mood right now. I am so relaxed, because I have the next 5 days off.

I know I will be ready to go back to work at the end of these 5 days, but for now, I am hoping to savour the lazy days- where one forgets about routines and chasing the clock.

The kids have school holidays and between the constant bickering, they have managed to spend some quality time with each other. Both MsA& MsAn are obsessed with Harry Potter at the moment and have been having movie nights in! My only hope is that this sibling love persists and that they don’t kill each other before school goes back on.

My dad is in town and I want to make the most of my time with him. This is the first time that my dad is visiting and I am working full time. I miss my uninterrupted time with him from when I was a stay-at-home-mum or when the kids were younger.

Oh speaking of uninterrupted, another thing I miss is uninterrupted Netflix binge watching sessions, so guess what I am doing tonight?

Anyway, have a nice night, my sweets!!

More later,

Xoxo

Trish

Hello world,

I am not sure if anyone is still reading this.. I am hoping seeing my name pop up in your inbox will make a few of you smile and you will eagerly click on the link to see what I have to say.

SP and I watched a movie last night and the lead character is vlogger. Watching the movie reminded me how much I enjoyed blogging and interacting with other bloggers and readers, a lot of whom are friends now.

That’s us at the movies 👆

So, here’s me trying, yet again to blog regularly but I as always, I know life will get in the way – I’ll be too tired/busy or something else and the blog will be forgotten. So, I need a little help from the Gods of World Wide Web and from you, yes you the reader of this post. I implore you to nag me, encourage me, annoy me and keep me accountable so I keep churning out those posts.

These posts will be just me being me, musing about random things on the face of this earth. If you would like to hear my wise thoughts about something, let me know and I will try my best to talk about that.

I must warn you that I am technologically challenged.. a friend asked me today how much storage I had in my phone and my response was 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think because -1) I don’t remember how much.

2) because so far I haven’t run out of storage – so I am guessing I have a LOT of storage!

So, as I said I am technologically challenged, so please be kind and don’t ask me any technical questions.. I have MsA & SP for that 😀

So, back to accountability, I aim to post something every day – a long or short post / a photo / just something from my day / a recipe – anything to keep blogging.

Here’s to staying on track..

More, tomorrow

Xx

Trish

Ms An turned 7 yesterday!! As I am slacker blogger now, I thought I will share my Facebook post here and save it for when she is older.

Two eyes twinkling with mischief, a mouth that doesn’t stop talking or singing, two ears that have mastered selective hearing, two little legs that can’t sit still and two hands that are most eager to stretch and hug even strangers -Yes, that’s our MsAn!

Although it feels like yesterday that she came into this world, our little baby is 7 ! I was worried if I’d be able to love another baby, as I much as I loved MsA, but MsAn found her way into my heart, almost as soon as I laid my drugged eyes on her.. that first snuggle and she stole my heart, mind and soul.

Here’s wishing my little heart, my firecracker a very happy Birthday.

Dear Ms.An, MsA, Daddy and I love you so much – Your crazy giggles,vile tantrums, constant singing and everything you do , everything that’s you , completes our family in a way only you can.

A quick, wholesome, delicious Thai style chicken curry and jasmine rice- just what we needed last night after the long day.

This week, I set myself two challenges –

1) not spending any money unnecessarily

2) eating home cooked meals and thus sticking to the budget.

I don’t need to track our spendings to know that a big chunk of it is spent in eating out and takeaways. Even though I cook a lot, most nights that we have activities on end up being takeaway nights.

This dish helped me stay on track.

Cooking this dinner must have cost me $10 or $15 at the most. Here’s the breakdown:

Diced chicken- 600 gms – $6.50

Masterfoods Creamy Thai Chicken paste – $2

McCormick Slow cooker mild curry powder – $0( from the pantry – think I paid $1 for it ages ago)

Veggies – from the fridge -$3

Coconut cream can -$1.50

Jasmine rice – $1(?) – from the pantry ( I think it was $12 for a 10 kg bag)

Total cost – 14

We got 6 meals out of this – that’s 6 meals for $2.30 each!!!! Mind-blowing!!!

Best part – the kids loved it too!

The recipe doesn’t get simpler than this .

1. Heat some oil in a pan. Brown the chicken. Put it aside.
2. Fry some slice onions and capsicum in the same pan.
3. Add the Thai paste , the curry powder and the coconut milk, stir well to break lumps.
4. Add the chicken back in the pan & let it simmer for 5-10 minutes.
5. Add Brocollini and cover the pan. Switch off the heat & let it sit for 5-10 minutes before serving hot on steamed Jasmine rice.

Sending lots of happy cooking vibes your way ..

❤️

T