SNOW!!!!

In Auckland... this hasn't happened since 1936!!

Weekly Exercise

Week 2

• Monday - 1/2hr walk around local streets {DB}
• Tuesday - 1 1/2hr walk around One Tree Hill {SB}
• Thursday - 45min around my mum's local streets {SB}
• Saturday - 1 1/2hr walk around One Tree Hill {DB}

DB = Double Buggy
SB = Single Buggy
I haven't weighed myself this week, so have no idea if all this exercise is doing anything... but I think it may be as I've had to tighten my belt another notch and my mother {!!!!!!!!! shock horror} said I looked like I had lost weight.

I Love....

egg and cheese toasties made in my nana's old quicksie iron.... ahhhhhhhh heaven

Recipe: Impossible to fail Quiche

I saw this being made on the Breakfast show a couple of weeks ago and thought I would give it a go... I modified it a little, by baking it in a muffin tray and making Mini Quiches out of it...

3 eggs
1/2 cup self-raising flour
1 cup aged cheddar grated cheese
1 tbsp oil
11/4 cups milk
1 onion, finely chopped
2 chopped rashers of bacon, rind removed (optional)
Diced smoked chicken.

Place all the ingredients into a large bowl with a whisk or container or large food processor bowl and either stir or shake with vigour for one minute or whirl for 30 seconds.

Pour into a hot, greased quiche dish and add bacon and anything else you think would work - a few tablespoons of chopped parsley, and/or corn , and/or raw mushrooms - just clean out the fridge!)

Bake 180degC for 45 minutes.

Serve with a salad and bowl of crusty bread

Weekly Exercise

Week 1

This is late - Whoops was meant to be posted last night...

• Monday - 1 & 1/2hr walk at western springs {walked round 3 times} in the morning. Walked around the zoo in the afternoon {both times with double pushchair}
• Tuesday - 28 minutes on the Wii Biggest Loser
• Wednesday - 1 & 1/2hr walk round one tree hill {with the double pushchair}
• Thursday - 1hr 10min walk around local streets {with the single pushchair}
• Friday - 19 minutes on the Wii Biggest Loser
• Saturday - 1hr walk around local streets {with the double pushchair}

Feeling good people

Tough Love

All my babies have always fallen asleep in my arms or on the breast and been transferred into their beds... Well Axel is no different... except that he often wakes when I put him down into his bed... so the last few days I have been getting him to self settle for his afternoon sleeps... with success that I NEVER had with Paris and Cam.

• Tuesday - talked to himself 5mins, cried 5mins, talked to himself 3mins, screamed 2mins, slept 1 1/2hr
• Wednesday - talked to himself 5 mins, cried 5mins, slept 1 1/2hr
• Thursday - talked to himself 4mins, cried 3mins, screamed 2mins, slept 2hrs before I had to wake him to collect Cam from Daycare
• Friday {today} - talked to himself 5mins, screamed 2mins, and has now been asleep for 1hr and counting.... long may this continue

I am not tackling the morning sleep at all, as we are often out and about at the park, doing daycare drop off, walking with friends etc etc... he sleeps very well in the pushchair and carseat so the morning sleeps are never a problem :)

And same with bedtime... he falls asleep on me, I pop him into bed, and he doesn't wake again for several hours...

I'm Back...

my computer is fixed... thanks heaps to my mates hubby :) it's running so much better... it appears my windows explorer was corupt

I have set myself a few goals over the last few days....

• lose 5kgs in 6 weeks
• exercise 4 days every week
• spend less time online
• bake more
• spend more time with my kids

so far so good {watch this space for some of my creations}... I baked mini quiches for the kids lunch boxes on Sunday night, as well as my first ever bacon and egg pie {made with chicken rashers, not bacon as I don't eat pork products}, chocolate weetbix slice and blueberry muffins - my kids think all their christmas's have come at once... :)

Also today is day 3 of the exercise goal, and I have so far exercised all 3 days :)