My Happy List

Postcard parties with my friend Lara

Somewhere along the lines my friend Lara & I started sending each other postcards. This has been an ongoing thing for a couple of years now, and every time one arrives in the post it really brightens my day! While we both have separate types of humour, our friendship has taken on its own odd sense of humour over the years that keeps our postcard party interesting. Romy had a pretty rough afternoon today, so when Luke brought the mail in on his way home - a postcard from Lara in one hand and a takeaway latte + mint slice in the other - it really made my day! It's always nice receiving something other than a bill in the mail. 

12.35 pm

Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 12.35 pm

The last couple of days Romy hasn't needed much encouragement to go down for her lunchtime nap, and has pretty much been falling asleep through her lunch bottles. I think this teething gig is taking its toll on her.

5/52

"a portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week in 2014"

As each day passes more of Romy's personality starts to come through, and it is very clear that she is going to be a daddy's girl. On Luke's days off work she will follow him around the house quietly whispering to herself, 'dad dad dad dad dad', and will only be settled by him in the evenings, which means I am basically their third wheel. This week Romy's top vampire teeth started to come through, so there have been a couple of long nights with extra hugs. She was so keen to use her new teeth that she started to bite the adjustable side of her cot over the weekend!

1.45pm

Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 1.45 pm

While Romy napped today I got out my craft box & some old magazines and made some cards to put in the post later in the month. I set myself a goal this month of sending out four pieces of snail mail, and I'm already halfway to accomplishing that little goal. It was a nice way to spend my rainy afternoon, I forgot how fun making magazine collages could be. 

Today We

Today we ate home made bagels for breakfast and read the Sunday paper

Romy had a Dr Seuss kind of breakfast of green eggs & ham

We filled out rental applications before we went to a viewing for a sweet little cottage

And had Grill'd afterwards on the way back to the coast

We got home a little later than expected from the house viewing with all of the afternoon traffic. Romy didn't mind though, it just bought her extra playing time when we got home to make up for the travel time spent in the car today. On Luke's days off she likes to be around him as much as possible, so if he's in the kitchen, she's in the kitchen. It was nice having a low key day altogether, hopefully we can find a new rental soon so we can get back to making plans on Luke's days off. Enjoy your week!

Pizza Sunday

Balsamic mushroom + onions with fresh cherry tomatoes & feta

This week Luke & I thought we would try something neither one of us has had before on a pizza, balsamic. For a while there one of our favourite dishes was balsamic mushrooms with grilled polenta, & while we haven't had that particular dish in a while, we do like to caramelise onions & mushrooms to have with our eggs every so often. 

 

To caramelise the onions & mushrooms, heat a pan with oil & sauté the mushrooms & onions adding sugar & balsamic vinegar

To avoid burning the feta, Luke pulled the pizza out of the oven & added it on just before it was ready 

And it was delicious! 

8.45 pm

Sunday, 2 February 2014, 8.45 pm

It was almost 9pm when Luke & I sat down to eat dinner. Romy has been teething pretty badly this week and getting her into bed of a night has been a bit of an ordeal. We went for an evening walk to try and settle her & she fell asleep three blocks from our house. Lucky we prepared everything for our dinner before we left so it took a total of two minutes to assemble.