A great day

This week's Fly Lady zone was the entrance and wonderfully Brendon took this to include the entrance area outside. So he got busy this morning (with the girls help) and they got so much done. They even moved the cars out the garage and swept that out. He noticed that the owners had a fire going so he emptied his fire drum and took the latest lot of rubbish down there to burn.

Then Rachel and I made a pavlova. She had gotten a "Pavlova Magic" in her food hamper where all that you add is water and sugar. We had bought the cream and a tin of strawberries to put on top and the result looked quite good (it tasted good too). I phoned our old neighbours to find out if they were around for us to bring it for afternoon tea. We had a lovely visit with them. Lynn actually still had a birthday present for Ruth - so that was a nice surprise for her.

In the evening we headed out to a Community Concert in Waipra as there were students on a cultural school trip from China at the concert too. Rachel and I really enjoyed chatting to the teacher afterwards. We had a little bit of a Chinese lesson and learnt how to pronounce Chairman Mao correctly. We also learnt that depending on how you "sing" mao (as it comes down to the tune of the word) it could mean cat, hat, fur or even money. No wonder it's such a hard language to learn.

The highlight for the night however was definitely the team of two men who had a number of different items they put on including doing some Charleston dancing, a hat show (with loads of different hat tricks - some of which were incredibly funny) as well as the famous "little man" act. This was hilarious and including a Michael Jackson song and the theme song from Chariots of fire among others.
All in all a great day. Thank you Lord.

Clean and cook

It's been great to finally get back to the Fly Lady zones and I asked the girls today if they wanted to clean the sliding door (the lounge was the zone for this week and almost everything else was done). They were so keen to give it a go. Funny Patches was playing with the girls from outside. The girls did a really good job and even little Hannah wanted to do as much as she could. I hope we can keep this enthusiasm.

After lunch Rachel and I got started on our BIG meal prep. I had asked Brendon to get some pork mince for me to make lasagna (I have finished all my beef mince) and he came home with 3kg yesterday. So it ended up being a bit bigger than we had even anticipated (I had asked for 2kg). We ended up using 2kg of pasta, 1,5kg creamed corn, 1,5kg carrots, 2l of white sauce, 2l of tomato sauce and at least 1/2 kg of cheese.

So well over a 12kg of food in total which gave us 5 big meals and some left over pasta and mince for a few pasta and mince lunches for me. The number of frozen meals I have now is up to 28 but there is no more space. It will be nice to have these available over the next 3 months for the times when energy levels are just too low for cooking.

Thankfully Hannah had a nice long sleep this afternoon so Rachel and I could work quickly with no interruptions (Ruth did a great job of keeping herself busy too). I had to smile at her little beanie head though. Sweet thing.