Monday night dinner

My photo today is of the start of the occasion of the first Odendaal BBQ of the season!!

I had to go to Lidil today to get Nappies and Bread and was thinking about dinner while I was there and stumbled upon their BBQ section and decided it would be a nice option, Since Mike is fasting Bread at the moment then it presents a bit more of a challenge to do a bbq without the burger buns but I think ive managed it. 

Menu

Quarter Pounder Beef Burgers

BBQ Marinaded Chicken Drumsticks

Lincolnshire Sausages 

Roasted vegetables  

( courgette, red capsicum, red sweet peppers and tomatoes and black olives

in Olive oil with salt and pepper and garlic powder to taste )

Ranch Salad

( Tomatoes, Iceberg Lettuce and Cucumber with light Ranch dressing )

Slices of Mature cheddar

Ketchup & BBQ sauce

Fresh Strawberries served under yogurt

So a simple BBQ with Simple salads and vegetables but in keeping with Mikes diet goals and its lovely and seasonal 

Sunday 29th April

Twas eve on a Sunday

and they gathered en'mass

found cushions and sofas

and bright coloured pads

armed with their popcorn

fizzy drinks in their hand 

they sat down together to watch one man take a stand

Amazing Grace the movie about Wilburforce Will

the story his triumphant Parlimentary bill

"Abolish the Slave trade" was Williams cry

His fight for the cause almost saw him die

But Victory was His in the end of the day

Slavery is finished in that sense today.

other forms of Slavery have sprouted up since

the slavery of minds of hearts ....

and still they trade people, 

souls brought and sold

dragged from their homelands to work till they're old

My heart sunk yesterday after watching "Amazing Grace" the true story of how William Willborforce with his fellow men of like mind brought a GLOBAL change in the passing of their bill "the slave trade act" of 1807 when I realised they may have " abolished slavery " over 200 years ago but we still have Slavery in various forms in this world we live in.....

WATCH THIS

Please watch the video link above and buy the single if you have any heart for anybody, Out there is someones mother, someones daughters, somones sisters

How did we let this happen ??????

A Picture a day 

Today Saturday 28th April 2012

This little man is 

 3 years, 10 months, 3 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes, 12 seconds old in this photo

He was curled up on my sofa watching the Gruffalo's child which we recorded to the Sky box at Christmas time. He insists on watching it even though it scares him every time and he ends up curled up under my Arctic Wolf blanket on the sofa with his fingers in his mouth periodically hiding his head under the blanket.

Some days I dont know where the time has gone since his birth. I re-read my birth story yesterday the whole ordeal of what we went through with him when he was born with his Jaundice needing special photo-therapy lights and coming so close to a blood transfusion for him.

It reminded me of the emotional rollercoaster that happened that night less than 24 hours after the  blessing of his birth to the panic and fear of the unknown that I had wheeling him down to the SCBU and the relief after talking to the doctor the next morning finding out what the issues actually were and what the plan was for treatment, then the endless day/night/day/night cycle of 3 hourly feeds meaning trips back and forth to the SCBU and the pumping room to get milk for him. Sitting up in the SCBU in the middle of the night to feed him worrying and praying over him.

His first week was one of the scariest of my lifetime, My world was all contained in one little boy I barely noticed Mike and my mother coming and going from the hospital visiting us.

Thankfully God was with me and brought us both home safely after just a week in hospital and though over the following 3yrs this Little man has had us back at the hospital a few times, very recently only 10 days ago we were up at a&e in the night getting his breathing checked out as he had managed to get me worried.

I wouldnt change a moment of it though, through all the tears and tantrums there have been many more smiles and giggles and laughs with Nathaniel and we are so blessed to have him as a part of our lives. 

I have plenty to do to organize his upcoming 4th birthday party, He wants a Pirate Party as his favorite show atm is Jake and the Neverland Pirates on the Disney Junior channel

So i have a treasure chest birthday cake to prepare and lots of plastic gold coins and pirate decorations to buy, Just waiting on confirmation of our venue then its full steam ahead.

I wonder what Tomorrows Photo will have me talking about.....

Life with 3 plus one and a business

Wow this year is flying by soo fast, my baby is already 4 1/2 months old and the time has vanished. We got exciting news with Nate achieving a place at our first pick for school for him, we had been planning to home educate however with starting our own business and having Michael's sister living with us it has not been possible due to size restictions for me to do all I want to do for Nate where we are currently and we feel that for the time being come September he will be better served attending a good local school. Life has been fairly hectic this year with alot happening for everyone in the household,sometimes I don't know how we stay sane in this zoo lol however when the children are all sleeping and Peaceful then I feel very blessed to have my family, the boys have grown alot in the last year and developed lots of new skills it's scary how fast they grow and with doing all the school preparations then it's had me thinking about how life was four years ago when I was in my final weeks working as a au pair and preparing to start work as a driving instructor trainee whislt getting ready for Nathaniels arrival and my mothers visit. Life four years ago was still busy and hectic but in a different way and back then it was just my insomnia causing my lack of sleep not the children lol. Recently I discovered pintrest and have my own board there now it like most things with me online is linked to my facebook. I really should be working on my website for our new business and getting the flyers finalised and onto a USB so I can go print them off this week when I'm returning the stack of library books we have, I need an organiser for my to do list but I know unless it was a tablet pc of some kind I would loose it or forget to pick it up so will have to look at getting myself a tablet at some point. I'm brewing up some ideas about ways to go forward with this business and got to find some backbone to start calling people about it after all the worst they can do is say no right? Anywa Aj needs mummy so enough of being Lynni for now back to being Mum at least Mike is being Chef tonight