Lovely aromatic smells emanated from our kitchen this morning! Not from me but from Tobyn. On Sunday he went through his cookbook and decided he wanted to make melting moments. We couldn’t do it on Sunday nor Monday so today it was, but it had to be done this morning because I had a kids scrapbooking class this afternoon.Well he started without me and did most of it himself! He did so well! Though he got to the cornflour part and said I don’t have enough for 1/2 cup let alone 1 cup and he desolved into tears “I have ruined it, I am useless” Oh dear he is good at beating himself! Well here I have a question for my blog readers that have older children…how old were they when you let them go down to the shop on their own? Well I have been resisting though thinking I should do it some time soon. So this morning I let him, I was still in my PJ’s and wasn’t planning on going anywhere, I had a tonne of things to do. He was thrilled that I was giving him this responsibility, and he did fantastically and came back unscathed! With the right amount of cornflour he continued and this is what the kitchen bench looked like
and look at the face, you can tell he was enjoying himself!
And of course he was the first one to try his fare.
But there is more to this story, I was caught out in my PJ’s cleaning the bottoms of our kitchen stools! Yes, I clean in my pj’s, especially in the school holidays. Well I thought my friend and her mum were coming to help me with my fist go at quilting on Thursday morning but I got it wrong it was TUESDAY morning, doh. Caught out well and good. I had to rush out and have a shower and make myself respectable LOL. And then I had my first lesson. Oh dear, don’t tell Steve but this could be another craft I am going to enjoy! While Susan, the Mum, was quiding me, Larissa the 15 year old helped Tobyn ice his melting moments and give Isaac his first sewing lesson!
Isaac wanted to “make a bag like Mummy”
And on the theme of trying new things, last night I had a go at digi scrapping. This is not going to become a common thing and certainly not going to replace paper scrapping, but it was fun and it taught me a lot about photoshop that I have struggled to learn for the past year of having it.
Thanks to Kelly for pointing me in the direction of the video tutorials on 2peas.
And last but not least my week one layout for my 365 project. The colour is a bit washed out it is a lovely aqua blue background.
Thanks for visiting, sorry this was quite a long post tonight.
Regarding kids going on their own to the shop, my girls were never interested but Aaron sure is and has been going since he was about 10-11yrs. The latest with him is going biking through the forest by himself but he now has a cell phone and has to text me when he gets there, at a certain point along the track and when he’s heading home. Yum to melting moments too – go Tobyn.
It’s a hard call to give them that extra bit of freedom. At this point, our dairy is too far away for me to consider it for ooooohhhhh… years!! LOL
But he is a few years younger than Tobyn anyway. It sure looks like it was worth it, yummy success with the biscuits by the looks of it.
I love your digi layout! So pretty. Tell me, what bits have you used? I love the colours.
Yep, it is certainly hard to give kids that little bit of freedom. Our dairy is only about 5 houses away, on the same side of the road, but I don’t know if I would send Ethan (6) on his own. I am glad to hear that other mums like you feel the same way, and have waited until their kids are a bit older to let them go. It makes me feel better – I thought I was just a silly old worrywart!
Anyway, back to the melting moments … I am hungry now! It’s awesome that Tobyn wanted to make them and did them on his own. Great skills you are teaching your boys 🙂
Yay tell Tobyn the melting moments look amazing and soo yummy…Love the layout of Isaac….I have been caught out in my pj’s a few times as well….
Hi Yvette, a belated HAPPY NEW YEAR to you!!!
Wow so much to catch up on here! You’ve been really busy you guys. Lots of cool layouts and photos here.
Particularly love the photos of Tobyn baking, especially the final one of him sampling his fare.
Wow – you’ve been busy – first digi layout – looks awesome too by the way … your week of pics with your 365 pics layout, a little sewing and housework – wowser – slow down!!!!
Hello to you and happy new year.
Wow you have been busy.
We just returned from the waikato today, and thought that I would check out all of the blogs that I have been missing. Yours being the first one I look at of course.
Will have to catch up soon.
Adele