I am not making this up.

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Captured on kodak, can you believe it, all the kids eating dinner together, all laughing about the same thing ( me probably) at the same time. No one arguing about who looked at their spoon funny, or who got the most grains of rice.
Oh precious moments!!
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More on Mochi.

More New Year.

We swung by a friend’s house to make mochi. we go there every year I blogged about it last year too.
I love that she does it with the whole family, relatives drop by throughout the day to join in and four generations live together so it’s quite a gathering and I appreciate her always including [...]

Round Two: New Year.

Cranking the energy back up to celebrate our Japanese side with the big family hoohah that is New Year.
I love New Year I just find it hard to keep the energy going especially when there is SOOO much food about and my clothes are already feeling the post Christmas pinch.
The Man is working his last [...]

All’s Well That Ends Well.

I think I can safely say it was a very successful Xmas. The chicklets were happy with their haul, and clever, clever santa putting in those new games for the DS ( es?) was a stroke of luck which led to hours and hours of peace and quiet. Even Kev can’t play DS and the [...]

Golf On Ice.

So Jim got some funky PJ bottoms from Aunty Liza. I say ” hey look at these babe, aren’t they funky, they’ve got hockey stuff all over them.”
He says, “What’s hockey?”
I say, ” Ya know, like those great hockey team shirts Uncle Brick brought you from Canada.”
He says, ” Oh I know, like golf on [...]

The Brining Of The Bird.

Well who knew? I did the brining, I placed all my trust in my non -cooking, non-meat eating friend and what a success!!
I looked up some info and saw brining all over the internet under bird roasting, which I have never seen before.
A gazillion recipes, oranges, lemons, the bells of St Clements, balsamic vinegar, parsley, [...]

Oh Christmas Eve

It is here already, I am up bright and early, unfortunately getting Sunshine off to school for intense science lessons, because that’s what matters most at Christmas.
The ice has thawed and once more she speaks to me.
Today, the out-laws will decend for turkey and all that goes with that.
I shall have my brisk morning walk [...]

The Last Day

Here it is, upon us already, the last day of the school term. The chicklets are sucking back brekkers as I type.
It’s pouring with rain and they finish at 11.15.
I love the Christmas holiday, because it’s only a few weeks long it’s so much easier to say ‘to heck’ with everything and let everyone do [...]

Kev and the Piano.

Kev has taken to the piano. Just the one song.
All day, every day.
“Mama are you listening?”
” Yes, my love.” There is nowhere in the house you can NOT hear.
He said he wanted lessons, so I said I would ask my student who is a piano teacher.
He said, ” I don’t want to use the [...]