A long rave

[eth]

@CheerBear!!

[CheerBear]

You have great listening eyes @eth thanks 🙂 This experience is a first for us. I try and keep the ages/levels of mine quietish here which I know makes it a bit hard to follow along with but I need to. I've probably also failed at that this last little while so um hoping posts get buried a bit if that makes sense. They've calmed down a little now with some encouragement to let it go today and then some firm "this is enough for tonight" when that didn't work. The others are training a fluffy new addition to walk up and around an obstacle course made out of boxes which is a bit cute 🙂

How's your afternoon been? What do you think you'll find yourself up to tonight?

[CheerBear]

Bahahaha @eth! That pic is gold 😂

[eth]

@CheerBear  I love that expression 'listening eyes' ..  that's exactly what we do here.   I totally understand about your not wanting too much detail about your kids on here.  Didn't mean to pry.  I was just thinking that transition to big school is possible the most stressful for the eldest - I am the eldest in my family and I recall having a lot more anxiety than my siblings seemed to.

Glad you liked the picture.

What do you have planned for this evening?  Is there another week before school starts or is it this week coming?

Just me tonight, probably left over Thai yellow curry of veg and tofu that I made Friday night with a small salad.  Sil has asked me to try not to do dinners using the oven for a few weeks coz it makes the house too hot so I'm looking for chicken or vego dinners that can be done entirely on the stove top if you have any suggestions.

[CheerBear]

I didnt take your questions as prying at all @eth 😊 Just wanted to explain what might be a bit of vagueness at times. I feel the same about being the eldest and hope this is just part of that. It seems to have been for the other changes. Being the biggest is kind of like being a crash test dummy at times 😆

They're back this week. I can almost start them walking now 😉👍

Not much on tonight. I'm super tired. I have dishes and dinner to do then might watch some tv (probably away from kids). Friend wants to come around but I'm not up to it tonight. I'm trying to let some guilt about that go. Will probably cave though 😏

Yum with the yellow curry!!! I'll have a think about what we do stove top. I have a feeling our food might be a bit bland for you though as you have such colourful sounding food tastes! We're having some gyoza (store bought) with salad tonight. So good!

Noticed you around also @Zoe7 and a 👋 and ❤

[Appleblossom]

Hi @CheerBear @Mazarita @Bunniekins @Shaz51

@eth

I treated myself to Paul Kelly's songbook for christmas.

[eth]

Gyoza with salad sounds good to me @CheerBear .  I quite like more basic food and so does my brother but sil has fancier tastes.  I'm constantly looking for new recipes that are easy enough for me to do.  The curry was just done with bought curry paste and coconut milk and the veg and then I fried the tofu in 2cm blocks and added it in.  What flavour gyoza do you like?

Hi @Appleblossom what a great gift to give yourself.  I'm sure there'll be some gems in there.  He's such a great poet as well as musician.  I watched him live at the opera house on ABC last night.

[Shaz51]

what a great gift to give yourself., I agree @Appleblossom

hello @Mazarita, @eth, @CheerBear, @Bunniekins

[eth]

Hi @Shaz51  how's your day been?

[CheerBear]

Sounds great @Appleblossom 😊 hope things are going well in your world at the moment.

Just vegetarian gyoza in whatever flavour that is we buy it in @eth. I am not adventurous with food. Your curry sounds great! I struggle to find vego curries. I also used to loooove chicken curry so I think I always compare vego and chicken and nothing quite seems to match how much I loved certain chicken curries! I had an amazing lentil one the other day from a restaurant though. It was almost a soupy dish. Would love to find a recipe that tasted the same!

👋 @Shaz51 ❤

As easy as dinner is tonight, it's not making itself so I'd better head off.

Nice to catch you all 🙂