I just wanted a Cup of Coffee

I don't drink much coffee.  I prefer to have it when I'm out made with a decent espresso machine.  We have one but we don't get it out very often.  I sometimes buy coffee bags just to have when I feel like a cup.  When Phill is home he drinks cup after cup of tea and coffee, all day long so my stash was used up this week I guess.  I thought I at least had a jar of instant somewhere but no.  I often take sachets from motels to keep in our picnic bag but none there either, or in the canister where I keep miscellaneous teas and stuff.  Nope not a grain of coffee anywhere in the house. 
Disgruntled, I added "coffee" to my shopping list and vowed to hide it when I got it home.  Suddenly I remembered a bag of good coffee beans I had in the back of the freezer for the espresso machine.  I got out the coffee grinder, ground the beans to coarse for my plunger and voila I had my cup of coffee.  I put the rest of the grounds into a jar and hid it behind a tub of ice cream. 
Does this look like rain to you?

They promised us rain, where is the rain?

So first thing I had my tea then made Josh his promised french toast.

It was a healthier version of the way I usually make it, fat wise at least.  I used to always cook it in lashings of butter but I just used cooking spray this morning and it tasted great.  Josh loved it.

Emily got up just as we were cleaning up and was upset that she missed out.  She doesn't care much for french toast anyway which is why I didn't wake her.  I cheered her up by making some cinnamon toast for her, not the way she does, she just sprinkles the cinnamon and sugar on buttered toast but I did it under the grill so the sugar melted and got a bit crispy and she really enjoyed it.  So that's breakfast done.  One load of washing out another in the machine, it never ends.  Hopefully once again I'll get it dry before the elusive storm hits, if it does.

Today I am going to sort out the kids' schooldays albums.  I've kept an album for all three from the time they were at preschool.  They have all their awards, special drawings etc, school reports, photos and other stuff.  They are so glad I do it, they often go through them and talk about "the old days".  I didn't get to finish Kate's much to my deep disappointment.  She finished her schooling in WA by correspondence and I wasn't even there to see her graduate.

I found this metal basket yesterday, it came as a bath hamper type thingy years ago and it's pretty but I never knew quite what do with it.  I once had face washers in it when I had a big enough bathroom to display it.  I was thinking of making a centrepiece with it for Christmas, filled with baubles maybe or bon bons. 

We're having Lamb Kofta, on the bbq if I get it lit, and I'm going to make a chick pea and couscous salad with a tahini dressing.  Might make a little tabouli if I can harvest enough of the flat leaf parsley from the garden.

Feeling happy, all's well in my world.