The Best

The feeling when I get home and see a little treasure underneath my door mat is one of the best! A great start to the weekend. The past weekend included baseball, pirates, a bonfire of warmth, a date with Mr J for lunch, a trip to the cinema and finished with church. Another big weekend of fun. 

Happy Monday! 

{P.S. About Time is highly recommended. A movie with a great message for life.}

Wholemeal Strawberry Pancakes

This morning I had a craving. A craving for pancakes!
I cured that craving by making these yummy things.

Ingredients
1.5 Cup of milk
1 Egg
2 Tsp of Vanilla Extract
2 Cups of Wholemeal SR Flour
1/4 Tsp of Bi-Carb Soda
1/3 Cup of Caster Sugar
1 Punnet of Strawberries, chopped
Butter

Method
1. Whisk together the milk, egg and vanilla
2. Combine the flour, soda and sugar in a bowl
3. Gradually add the milk mixture with to the flour mixture
4. Mix in the strawberries
5. Place a small amount of butter into a fry pan
6. Pour some mixture into the pan, flip when bubbles start to appear in the pancake
7. Repeat until all of the mixture is gone

I served mine with maple syrup.
Perfect for breakfast, lunch or tea!
Enjoy.

Another day with Family

A couple weeks ago my family spent the day at my adobe. This time, I trekked up through the snake-like roads to my hometown. 

Dad picked me up at ten o'clock. We were on the road for five minutes before spontaneously stopping at Newman's Nursery. We shared our walking and talking with the sunshine and a hot drink. It was lovely.  

We met mum at my childhood home, talked some more and decided to go out for lunch. We ate at this beautiful cafe. The atmosphere, boutique gifts and home-style food gave me a dream to open up my own cafe. One can only dream. 

After a visit to the antique store up the road, we spent a relaxing afternoon at home, followed by steak and home-fried chips {dad's specialty} for dinner.

Another wonderful day with family. They mean more to me than my heat bag on a cold day. 

 

Lunch Shared with Family

Today has been beyond wonderful. My family came over for lunch. I didn't have to worry about a single thing, they brang a bbq and the food - all I had to do was open the door. I feel so blessed. The five hours spent with my loved ones was relaxing, humorous and enjoyable.

Thank you Dad for cooking the food, fixing the sink, finding the hole in cheesecake bottom, informing me there are a lot of houses around and for being so relaxed. 

Thank you Mum for making the salad, doing the dishes, noticing my weeded garden and realising my clothes line was on the right side of the garage. 

Thank you Nathan and Emily for making the effort on four hours sleep, telling me I could sell my artwork and understanding I only had man-size plates left to use.

You're all super-dooper fabulous! 

A different kind of week.

This week has been big! Mr J and I made the transformation to Apple Mac's, I attended my Lutheran College Intenisve week, became a bus catcher pro, received a beautiful bunch of 'just because' flowers from my wonderful fiancé, had my daily lunch in the sun, enjoyed the comfort of marion gold class cinemas and demolished the left over slices from this. It sounds quite luxurious but I've run out of steam. So tired, but super blessed! Tonight, we say 'hello pancake kitchen', next week I say 'hello work' and then it's 'hello uni!' Happy Friday.