mmmm…straight off the tree in our backyard. The MOST sweet, juicy perfect apricots I have ever tried. I had forgotten how good apricots are SUPPOSED to be…not like the dry, tasteless ones in the shop. YUM!
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Well we have FINALLY met our new brother-in-law (to be…). Filipa and Chris came down from Queensland late Friday night and we had a fun family weekend together getting to know him and getting excited about their wedding. It was just a short trip for Chris, 2 days (perhaps he was playing it safe and didn’t want to stay for too long in case he thought we were strange!). Fil is here for another week. We had a fun weekend, Chris fitted into the family really well…it helped that he is 6′ 8″ and a HUGE basketballer so the boys were very happy!
We had pancake breakfast on Saturday morning and Mum and Dad took Fil and Chris to visit Nan and Pop in Deloraine, then we had a bbq and mini family engagement party on Saturday night.
I made an orange and poppy seed cake and Mum decorated it with flowers from the garden for their “engagement cake”. It looked very pretty…
Lil and Michaela after dinner on Sunday night…they are such cuties – see what I mean about Michaela being so much bigger! It will be fun having them so close in age, watching them grow up together.
I think Cade is VERY happy with his new brother-in-law!
I don’t like bananas…but I LOVE this banana bread.
Quick Banana Bread
250g cream cheese, softened
1 cup raw sugar
3 large ripe bananas, mashed
2 eggs, lightly beaten
300g packet scone mix
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius. Grease a loaf tin and line the base and sides with baking paper.
Beat the cream cheese and sugar in a large bowl with electric beaters until light and smooth. Add the banana and eggs and beat for 2 minutes or until well combined. Fold in the scone mix and pecans until well combined.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the surface. Bake for 40 minutes. Cover with foil and bake for a further 15 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake. Leave in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool. Cool completely before serving.
Banana bread will keep for up to 5 days stored in an airtight container.
The challenge for this week was to think of something that has been on your mind a lot lately that you really want to do, but never get around to. Then to actually do it so that you can free your mind and have one less thing bugging you!
Something I have been meaning to do for AGES, is to get into regular exercise again. Nothing flash…just a simple walk or a bit of resistance training at home. Just because it makes me feel good and helps me have a better outlook on life.
ooohhh…I REALLY wanted to go to bed early tonight – by 10pm at least, my usual bed time lately is around 11pm, I love it because there is sooo much I want to do while the kids are asleep and the house is clean, but I really need more sleep!
So, this is keeping me up tonight…have just finished watching The Bridge to Terabithia and HAD to write about it before I go to bed!
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant movie! I know I am a bit behind on the movie scene as we never go to the movies anymore (actually, I tell a small lie…we did go a few weeks ago and saw Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, that was brilliant too – I could go on about that but wouldn’t get to bed forever…) anyway, this was one sweet movie. Right up my alley…I’m not into waste of time movies – killing, coarse language, violence – I like movies that make me feel good, that I can think about for a long time after and that I want to tell everyone about.
So, anyway, I wish I had read the book before I watched the movie, but I hadn’t…I am very looking forward to getting my hands on a copy now so that I can learn and feel even more about these special kids.
Leslie and Jess are from completely different worlds and seem to have nothing in common…until they discover a magical world together and solve all of their problems. I love anything that promotes children (and adults) using their imagination and really believing they can go to a far away place and imagine ANYTHING they want to.
The author of the book, Katherine Paterson wrote the book to help her 8 year old son deal with aa difficult situation that she didn’t know how to explain or make better, the only way she knew to help him was to write a story to help him with his feelings. How sweet is that? A mother writing a story to help her son that ends up helping thousands of people…brilliant!
So…if you haven’t seen the movie, hire it tomorrow for a Saturday night movie at home and let me know what you think.
P.S. How come blog posts get so lengthy late at night?