Guests for dinner

We’ve got visitors coming for dinner tonight so I have to get those piles away from the dining room table!  That’s motivation!

After the house was all caught up Jess and I made two Crème Caramels for dinner tonight.  I don’t particularly like sharing my kitchen with anyone so teaching my children to cook has been challenging.  But it has been necessary so I have found a few strategies that has made it easier for me.  One of them is to work side by side – I show them and they do it, we make double.  It seems to help me if my hands are cooking as well.  I don’t butt in and take over, I don’t get cranky and want everyone out of my kitchen!!  So we have two Crème Caramels for dinner.  There were a few new techniques for Jess – scalding milk and toffee (beginnings of).

Later in the day Nomi helped me with the potatoes and I prepared seasoned chicken drumsticks. 

Baby shower

I was invited to the baby shower of the daughter of our oldest friends in town.   It was lunch at the Country Club with the normal baby shower games sprinkled around.  I felt my age!!   Only three of us had children (grandmother to be aside) and the other mums were just starting their family!  The give away was a baby photo competition.  The photo I grabbed, without thinking much, was of my christening, my mum’s hat and the car in the background are a dead giveaway!