Sunny Monday

Who do the weekends go by so quickly?  We didn't really do anything special just stayed at home but it was nice anyway.  Josh has to make a speech today at school and he impressed me by getting to his desk and working hard on it for a while yesterday and got it all ready.  He was at a bit of a loose end so I took him out into the garden with me and we talked about the plants and I named them for him and we thought he might be interested in gardening which would be a nice shared interest.  I was around the side of the house, weeding a little bit around the silver beet and wondering what I could put into a bare patch there under the bedroom windows when what should I hear on the front porch of the tiny little spying greasy people but a police officer!  Goodness, home owners get visited by the police too?  I thought it was just us lowly rent paying tenants.  I suddenly found other things to do in the side garden while I eavesdropped on the conversation (wouldn't have occurred to the greasy man to let the cop inside as I would have done, he probably had something to hide).  I wouldn't normally try to overhear someone's private conversation but I had to get that fly screen back on Em's window.  Someone had made a complaint about them, not the dog sadly.  The garden is looking lovely, Phill got in and weeded the front before the CL's visit last week and I intend to keep it that way.  Just pulling them out as they appear is the way to go.
I got busy in the kitchen and made a low fat jaffa cake and some cornflake cookies for the kids' school lunches.

Josh and I picked the last of the oranges off our tree.  Fresh unwaxed oranges are SO easy to grate rind from.  The recipe called for two heaped tablespoons and I got that quickly and easily.

It also had flour, egg white, sugar, bottled apple sauce, choc chips and orange juice.  Bi carb was mixed into the apple sauce to give some lightness but I stuffed up on two counts.  I should have beaten the egg white and sugar with the electric beater rather than a whisk (I got lazy) and I should have put the apple and bi carb into another bowl rather than trying to mix the bi carb into the sauce while it was still in the 1/2 measuring cup.  The texture was too dense and tough but the flavour was wonderful and I'll give it another go this week.  I iced it with icing sugar and orange juice.

The cookies were great.  So I have home baked school snacks for today for our new resolve of healthy packed lunches.  I got up early and cooked some chicken breast in chicken teriyaki sauce to put on wraps with salad.  No more money for the school canteen which disappointingly sells expensive and unhealthy choices.  They charge $3.00 for a bottle of water!  And the education department is trying to encourage healthy choices.

Today is another busy day, I'm expecting to hear from the real estate today or tomorrow so that should be interesting.

Five more days of term then two weeks school holidays and we're all looking forward to it.