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Tuesday 26/2/2013

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Diary and Notes

Tonight was one of those nights that just drain you. It's all my own doing, but it's still just exhausting.

After dinner we played for a bit, watched an episode of Futurama, did some dressing up, then read Hansel & Gretel and the Elves & the Shoemaker. All was going swimmingly. Eve was getting tired, but Isis wanted to stay up a bit later.

A cunning plan was hatched, Toni would put Olias to bed, I'd put Eve to bed and then come down and entertain Isis for a bit longer. It was all going so well...

Children rarely do what you want them too. Their nature is to do their own thing.

Of course Isis wasn't in the mood to play on her own for ten minutes, it was about two before she was in the bedroom and disturbing us. I tried singing a song - Eve woke up.

It went on.

Chatting, playing, chatting.

I explained to Isis it was now too late and she would have to go to bed too.

And on it went.

Playing, chatting.

And on...

An hour. A whole hour. Already tired from sleep depravation, work, cooking, playing and general stress I was starting to hallucinate.

"Go to sleep."

Chatting...

"Go to sleep."

"I need a wee."

"OK. - Now go to sleep."

"I need a drink."

"OK - now go to sleep."

"I'm cold, I need a hot water bottle."

Every last excuse to stay awake just a little longer.

Is this how it is for everybody? I'm not sure it is.

All my friends who have kids just tell them to go to bed and off they trot, as good as gold. Surely something is wrong here.

It's not like this every night, but sometimes it's a marathon when it should be a stroll.

Eventually they both went to sleep, after me singing some bedtime songs.

So let's all have a good night's sleep. Get in bed with a cup of cocoa and a hot water bottle and listen to somebody who can really sing you to sleep. Click here. I'd have put it on my blog but copyright won't let me.

Sleep well.


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Menu
  • Corned Beef Hash
  • Barbecue Ribs
  • Cornmeal Biscuits

  • Belgian Waffles and Ice Cream


    Ingredients*

    Corned Beef Hash
    6 Medium Sized Potatoes
    1/3 Can Corned Beef
    1 Onion
    1 TBSP Sunflower Oil
    Salt and Pepper
    		 Ribs
    1 Rack Pork Ribs
    2 tsp Chinese Five Spice Powder
    2 TBSP Hoi Sin Sauce
    2 TBSP Tomato Ketchup
    1 TBSP HP Fruity Sauce
    1 TBSP Water
    		 Cornmeal Biscuits
    100g Self Raising Flour
    100g Cornmeal
    50g Sugar
    100ml Milk
    1 Egg
    ½ tsp Salt
    Sunflower Oil


    Preparation

  • Hash: Peel the potatoes and simmer gently until soft. Mash them up. Slice the onion and fry until brown, add the potatoes and the corned beef cut into chunks. Put in a lot of pepper a little salt and bake for 10 minutes.
  • Ribs: Place the ribs on a baking tray and sprinkle with 5 spice powder. Cover with foil. Bake slowly (130c) for 1 - 1/2 hours. Drain off all the liquid, mix the sauces and water together to make the BBQ sauce, then pour 1/2 the sauce over the ribs. Bake for a further 30 minutes at 150c. Pour over more sauce and cook for 5 minutes more.
  • Biscuits. Mix all the dry ingredients together then whisk in the milk and egg. Put a bun tin in the oven with a little oil in each dimple. Let the thin get hot before adding a big spoon of the mixture to each dimple. Bake for 15 minutes.



    Today’s Ratings:

    Isis: Yum.
    Eve: Yum.
    Olias: Yum. (If anyone tells you babies can't eat ribs they are wrong - no teeth, they'll suck the meat off).

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    *All quantities are very approximate and for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 kids aged 5 years, 3 years & 8 months)
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