Gangnam Style

This week has been a difficult week, for a couple of reasons, one day I will write about it, but not now...

 

We have had a great week of delicious food and amazing weather, we actually got to sit in the garden eating homemade burgers on Thursday. Note to self - must buy a barbecue!

 

Last night me and hubster went to a wedding, a great night for us to be with friends, drinking, dancing, and spending time with each other. Eating without having to share with the baby! It was perfect!

 

Now it is tradition, of sorts, that I request ‘Gangnam style’ at weddings, I did it to the last 2 weddings we went to and because everything comes in threes, you can see where this was going!

 

But I was beaten to it; it came on, without anyone requesting it!

 

Amazing, although, I haven’t heard the song for a while, I couldn’t actually remember the dance routine, so just proceeded to dance round the dance floor on my imaginary horse.

 

But like the last time I went out, I am up again early! Early! If anyone has any tips on how to sleep in when there isn’t a baby in the house, please do let me know!

 

I am off on a girl’s day out today for a friend’s birthday, so I need to get myself ready. But the rain has started pouring, thus putting a dampener on my outfit choices. Don’t let the word ‘choices’ fool you – there are only 2, jumpsuit or jeans... I am thinking jeans, or jumpsuit, I still have time to decide.

 

I am missing my boy, I don’t like him not being here, and I will miss him today. I am a tiny bit envious of him and the hubby spending the day together having a boy’s day.

 

Roll on Sunday for mummy baby time.

On Wednesdays I make lists

I really need to start being more proactive with this blog thing...! Especially now I have over a 1000 followers on my instagram page! Yey!

It’s Wednesday, on Wednesdays I make lists...

I do the shopping on a Thursday, but I like to go prepared!

First I check what’s in the cupboards, fridge and freezer that I can use up.

Then, I write a meal plan, well I plan what days we can all eat together, (since sometimes Daddy works evenings and we don’t get to eat together)  then I decide what were having and when.

Then finally, I write my list of what we need to buy.

I only shop at Aldi, but I do go to Tesco for my nut spreads.

I also like to write my list in order of the shop, does anyone else do that? I start with cereals, then breads, fruits & veg, meat, eggs, frozen, fridge bits, nappies and tills – you all do this, right?!

A personal choice, I like to buy fresh meat, fresh fruit and veg, I’m not against frozen foods and do get frozen pizzas, a salmon wellington, onion rings etc... But I really enjoy making my meals from scratch, I like to know what’s going into the food that I feed my family.

This is a reason we chose BLW (baby led weaning) so I could take this food journey with him, I could start trying new foods and stop being so darn fussy, because I do not want Austin being a fuss bucket like me. And I love it; I can’t believe I’ve denied myself all these foods for so long.

And who would have known that I would like cooking, and that I would be good at it!?

I prep a lot of our meals the night before where possible and this is also factored into the planning, when the baby goes to sleep this mama gets busy in the kitchen!

Maria