15 Marbles

Moments.Musings.Memories. ❤️Gathering little marbles from ordinary days and keeping them for our memory jar. ❤️

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    Ingredients:
    2 cups of cooked Pasta
    4-5 chicken sausages cooked and sliced
    1 small onion diced
    1/2 cup diced capsicum

    For avocado sauce:
    2 medium sized avocados
    3 cloves garlic
    1/4 cup coriander leaves
    Salt&Pepper- to taste

    Cheese for garnish(optional)

    For avocado sauce-Whiz all the avocado sauce ingredients in a food processor.
    Toss pasta,sausage,saute’ed onion & capsicum and sauce together.add more pepper if you like..and garnish with cheese(optional).

    Tip:If you like your pasta hot, make sure the pasta,sausage and sauteed veggies are warm,if not hot.Because the sauce is not cooked.
    I hope you enjoy this as much as we do.This is fast becoming a staple in our house for hot days!

  • Today,Aadi was looking at pictures on my phone.Pictures of a few month old Nanhi,videos of the sisters together and she giggled at her 4 yo self. As I looked at the pictures with her,I noticed how much she’s grown in the last year.I mean,the changes in Nanhi,from baby to toddler are so prominent..but those pictures were a reminder of the difference between a 4.5 yo and 5.5 yo..:) 

    And then half way through the pictures,her eyes started watering..When I asked her what was wrong,she said,she missed those days… She missed her little sister like that..All I could do was say Awww and hug her close. For didn’t I just have a similar feeling just a minutes ago..  Babies grow up so fast..but their big sisters grow up even faster.. another 2 months and my baby will be 6.She talks like a grown up,sometimes like a teenager*cringe* ,she plays with her sister,she teaches her father tricks to crack levels on iPad games,she pats me gently on the head to wake me up,instead of prying my eyes open.Heck,she even said,”sorry” when she opened the bathroom door,when I was inside and closed it right away..instead of coming inside and whining to use the same bathroom..and as I wonder,when or how did she grow up so quickly..she looks at her baby-sister fondly and says..”Awww..look mumma,isn’t she cute?But why does she have to grow up …why can’t she still be little?”
    *Sigh* if I had it my way,I would just keep bricks on their head,freeze them in a time wrap and never let them grow up.. But,I know,its not possible..so I’ll just giggle with them and cuddle them and hold them closer..and keep thinking..”Why can’t she still be little?”

     

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  • I spent most of the week before Xmas 2012 frantically crochetting bookmarks-I think I must have at least 8 bookmarks..I didn’t have time to take pictures of all of them..here are the ones,that I did manage to take pictures of:
    This is the one for Aadi’s teacher :
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    I whipped up two more of these,when the girls were in the shower
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    And this is my favorite-Twin Angel Bookmark for a very special friend,who has twin angels in Heaven.I loved the finish of this one..I think it turned out so beautiful because of the person it was made for and my love for her! It made me so happy to see her face break into the widest smile ever,when she saw it.
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    My hands have been busy crafting over the last month or so,but I didn’t have a chance to take pictures..So,I’ll have to wait till I get the pictures from the recipients.
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  • The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

    Here’s an excerpt:

    600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 12,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 20 years to get that many views.

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