Love, bubs and life on our little farm

As a mum with a career (hehe I go to great lengths to use any term other than working mother - I mean what mother doesn't work day-in day-out regardless of whether she is at a paying job or not!), life is a bit of a squeeze. I try to fit in all that I can. And for my little ones, this might mean that work days have less play and more go-go but Jase and I still try to make sure there is time to colour and learn letters and laugh and sing in there.

I think a lot of busy mums juggling jobs have those little "things" that they prioritise, things that make them feel like they are still cherishing and nourishing their children despite probably working themselves to the bone in the meanwhile. That act that when everything is exhausting and stressful, makes you feel like you are still doing alright...

For me, it is important that my kids go to daycare with home cooked food. Not only that but food I have cooked with them, so their lunch is all wrapped up with nice memories. So Sunday afternoons Elka teeters on a foot stool next to me as we measure and stir and pour. She is a brilliant cook after literally years of helping me - she can measure out a full cup of flour, she can roll out balls of biscuit dough, she loves to brush egg on pastry and she did a great job of crumbing chicken tenderloins the other night.

This past weekend, we cooked fat fluffy pikelets, Bronte leant down out of my arms and carefully flipped the pikelets over with her egg-flip whilst Elka carefully moved the cooked ones out onto a plate. We grated zucchini and carrot and cracked our home-laid eggs to cook a zucchini slice for their lunchboxes. And that makes me smile when I tiredly divy up little containers of food at night, mentally counting up to make sure they each have enough food packed for the next day.

Elka's favourite recipe at the moment are these jam drops - this mix is quite shortbready, keeps really well and are delicious hot and sticky out of the oven. Plus rolling the mix and spooning in the teaspoons of jam is just great for little hands.


Do you have a thing? Something that you like to make sure gets done, that makes you feel like all your ducks are still in a row and that you are coping with it all?