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Good afternoon girls :) Back from PlayGroup and coffee with some of the mums at the plaza afterwards. Most of the kids were tired and wriggley so we kept it brief. Niall was sooo happy to be placed in his cot when we got home, eyes closed the second his head hit the sheet. Wade is doing a Thomas jigsaw which reminds me: some of the mums were talking about going to the Thomas Show in the city in Sept. I think it's at the Rod Laver arena... anyhow one mum has made her booking... I got a bit of a shock to hear that tickets are $30 something dollars each and children's tickets are the same price as adults measning that it's going to cost us nearly $70 to go. I'm going to have to run it past DH... his bonus is not in the bag yet... if he doesn't get it then we won't be able to afford to go... things are pretty tight ATM. Oh well... this too will pass ;) So I totally understand where you are coming from Rory with wanting to preserve funds. BTW I made 50 yoyo biscuits for about $5 (ingredients)... just a rough estimation not including the cost of using the oven or dishwasher though LOL so 10c per biscuit! Not bad given that some cafes charge $2 each for them... and mine are better :P if I do say so myself! (the perfect yoyo biscuit not only tastes delicious but allows you to twist the two halves of the biscuit apart... most cafe yoyos crumble apart when this is attempted, rendering them inferior) ;)
And that reminds me Mel: I didn't answer your question about ghee: yes you can buy it, it comes in a dark green tin which is quite large and cost about $7 I think... although it's been a while since I've bought it... cheaper to make it yourself... there are lots of instructions on the 'net if you Google.... though i guess if you wanted a large quantity of it it might be cheaper to buy a tin *mulling* a tin used to last me ages. it's great to cook with, really helps to give Indian dishes an authenic flavour.
Maya: one issue DH and I lock horns over fairly frequently is his failure to take many mental illnesses seriously :( He just doesn't understand how the human body works... it's sooo frustrating!!! He finds it so hard to grasp that people with depression just can't snap out of it! I guess he has never had to deal with anyone suffering from a MI. Sometimes I worry too that if our children develop a MI he will be dismissive :( or what if I fell victim of depression? he wouldn't be able to see the symptoms for what they are... this worries me too. If we lived closer to my step mum I think the penny might drop. She suffers from schizophrenia, runs in her family, as well as Alzheimer's. You only have to spend a few days with her to observe the effect of the disease... DH would be able to see that what she suffers from is beyond any quirk of personality. I think it would really help him to understand. His own father, I think, is suffering from the early stages of senility but DH just dismisses it as a fact of getting old (he is 86)... DH really needs to understand that just because you can have a 10 minute normal conversation with somebody it is no guarantee that you will be able to have the same conversation with them the next day. I know that my step mum makes a huge effort to appear normal most of the time... DH just doesn't "get it" that she is battling this thing all the time... he just says she seems normal to him *grrrr*.... because he has never spent more than an afternoon with her at any one time. Anyhow Maya, my thoughts are with you and your Dad... I hope his has some degree of success at the therapist.
Oh and rory: I drop Wade off in Ivanhoe at 8.45am tomorrow and i am usually home just after 9am if I can catch the right train. So either take your time (if you get out of the hospital early) or wait for me at my place... i won't be far away :)
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