DH sat up until midnight improving on my poor attempts at the Cat in a Hat hat. It was worth it, nine -year-old girl won first-prize in her class for her costume. Aladdin won first place too (and in a moment of inspiration, some time after midnight, we replaced the real dagger with a cardboard copy and placed it in the sheath; six-year-old boy was most disappointed but I like to think we cleverly avoided an international incident with that decision), and my Revolting Roman was pretty revolted that his teachers refused to acknowledge the brilliance of his costume. Costumes we can do, food is trickier.
However, the blueberry, banana and orange juice smoothies went down pretty well today, accompanied by round upon lip-smacking round of cheese maneesh. The smoothies are effectively knocking everything else out of the water since as long as they drink these we're half-way, nutritionally speaking, to success . Mind you, nine-year-old girl looked at me levelly as I handed hers to her this afternoon and muttered 'there's yoghurt in it'. 'What do you mean?' I asked, wide-eyed and innocent. Rolling her eyes she turned back to the laptop which had this blog page up. I must remember that she is every bit as nosy as I am and then some...
As I type, the frozen minced-beef is sitting on the side in the kitchen trying it's hardest to de-frost -- I forgot to put it out earlier -- so Meatloaf may be a bit late taking to the stage for this evenings performance.
Although, nine-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy disappeared to the mall today, returning with sweets and in all probability, bellies full of Baskin Robbins ice-cream. Well, it's Thursday (weekend) and frankly it was nice for them to be out so that the others could settle down in front of Disney's Aladdin so that six-year-old boy could acquaint himself with his alter ego since he had no idea who he was supposed to be when asked at school today.
Shall report on the meatloaf later....
However, the blueberry, banana and orange juice smoothies went down pretty well today, accompanied by round upon lip-smacking round of cheese maneesh. The smoothies are effectively knocking everything else out of the water since as long as they drink these we're half-way, nutritionally speaking, to success . Mind you, nine-year-old girl looked at me levelly as I handed hers to her this afternoon and muttered 'there's yoghurt in it'. 'What do you mean?' I asked, wide-eyed and innocent. Rolling her eyes she turned back to the laptop which had this blog page up. I must remember that she is every bit as nosy as I am and then some...
As I type, the frozen minced-beef is sitting on the side in the kitchen trying it's hardest to de-frost -- I forgot to put it out earlier -- so Meatloaf may be a bit late taking to the stage for this evenings performance.
Although, nine-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy disappeared to the mall today, returning with sweets and in all probability, bellies full of Baskin Robbins ice-cream. Well, it's Thursday (weekend) and frankly it was nice for them to be out so that the others could settle down in front of Disney's Aladdin so that six-year-old boy could acquaint himself with his alter ego since he had no idea who he was supposed to be when asked at school today.
Shall report on the meatloaf later....
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