When life has other plans - it's all good

I am VERY familiar with handling the "when life has other plans" sentiment.  It seems to happen regularly at my place.

I had grand plans for today.  I was going to take the kids on the train and the ferry and it was a beautiful day for it.

Sadly my little Ben got really, really sick with fevers yesterday and slept from 2pm yesterday to 10.30am today (with me checking on him a million times to make sure he was ok).  Ben is our on the go boy and I don't think he has slept that much in his life.  Thankfully he is on the mend now.  Rhys has also got a terrible cough, which gets worse at night.  Oh the joy!

Instead, I pottered around the garden, cleaned up our little BBQ area/verandah (photos to come) and did some cooking.

As I had heap of ripe and unripe tomatoes on my tomato plants which are on their last legs, I decided to make some Mixed Tomato Relish.  

I had all the ingredients in the pantry

All chopped up

Cooked it down

All ready to go

I got seven jars all up.  I hope it is ok - I taste tested it and it was yummy.  I didn't use the cornflour to thicken it and it does look a little bit runny.  Fingers crossed it will be ok.  Will let you know.

I also made a chocolate brownie for dessert.

Chocolate brownie cooling

Nom nom nom

Very exciting news, on Wednesday 16th April 2014 Mr Michael lost his front tooth.  It was very wobbly and finally came out!! Yay.  The tooth fairy delivered him $2!

Doing the cool kid pose

Happy Easter weekend everyone.  We aren't religious, so it doesn't hold any significance from that point of view however we love the chocolate!