Sweet Blog Award

A big THANK YOU to my dear friend Mommy Adin of itssewtasticmama for sharing me this wonderful award. So sweet of you for remembering and including me in your list. It is greatly appreciated.

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Have a nice day always.

Sky Watch Friday

Sunrise on May 16, 2010.Have a wonderful weekend!

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He found his lost hat

When I picked up David after doing his weekly After School Sport, I noticed that he wasn't wearing his hat which he usually does. So I asked him where was his new hat. He just answered, it's in my bag, but when I checked it out, there was actually no hat. I asked him again and he answered me, I don't know. He actually forgot where he put it and even forgot when was the last time he wore it. We checked around in the Community Hall where the After School Sport is being held, but no luck at all. I decided to check the school Lost and Found shelves with hope that someone with a good heart found it and put it there, but same thing, we found nothing. David started crying because it's his favourite hat. There was only one more place that we had not searched and that was his classroom but at that time it was already closed so I just told him that we have to go home now because it is getting late and we will just continue searching for the hat the following day which he agreed without arguing.The next morning when we arrived at the school, first thing we did was to find his hat in their bag room. It was good that his teacher was right in the classroom at that time and I asked permission to let David in inside the bag room to look for his hat. The teacher was so accommodating, opened the bag room and even told David to look around the classroom if it is not in the bag room. But once he was inside the bag room, there it was, his new hat lying on the floor with someone else jumper. He was so happy and told me that he will look after his new hat from now on.

Watery Wednesday

Here's my Watery Wednesday entry. These were taken from a creek in Hannam Vale in the Mid North Coast of NSW sometime last January 2010.And here are my kids with their friend enjoying the place.
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Yesterday

It was gloomy and chilly. All I wanted to do was to stay inside, snuggle up on the couch with a blanket and a cuppa, and watch my favourite TV show. But with few things planned before and need to be attended yesterday, I had to go out, pushed my butt a bit.
First up, I went to our local Library to return all the books we borrowed for it will be due the following day and borrowed books again at the same time. Even though they won't charge for any overdue items but I want to keep my record clean and pleasing to them.Then, I went to the shop to buy a new pair of shoes for Dorothy. She needed a new pair to be used on their District Cross Country Run which is today but unfortunately rain pelted down since last night and the ground is soaking wet. Obviously, Mother Nature doesn't want the event to happen today. I got a news while I was in school that it will be moved sometime next week.After buying Dorothy's shoes, I went to another shop where we usually get our weekly vegetables and fruits. Our fruit bowl and vegetable bin in the fridge were all virtually empty. I did get everything for our whole week consumption. I love shopping in the morning of Monday there for the shop is not that crowded yet.
And lastly, our dinner, a serving of baked salmon, vegetable salad and garlic bread.

Today's flowers

My Today's flowers for this week are these pink frangipani from Royal Botanic Garden While we were strolling around we came across to a frangipani tree.I like frangipani because of their sweet scent and beauty. I have one growing in my garden at the moment and it is a white one. To see more Today's Flowers entries please visit here.

Outing with my sister

These were taken sometime last December 2009 in the lower part of the Blue Mountains with my sister and her family. The place is called Wascoe Siding located in Blaxland, a picnic area with miniature train rides (Steam engine, Diesel or Electric Locomotive), run by the Blue Mountains Railway Society. It was our second time there and David can't get enough of the rides and still wants to come back there again He and hubby are both train enthusiasts, like father like son. The place has no entry fee and we have to pay only for the rides. It is open every first Sunday of the month.Hubby and David on the last carriage .
From left, David, hubby, Maddie (my niece) and Dorothy
And this time with their Uncle Greg (in stripe)

Sky Watch Friday

Last week's SWF, I posted sunrise photos which were taken on May 04, 2010 and the sunset later that day wasn't bad either. Here are the photos that I captured.
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Seafood Marinara

I found this recipe so tempting to try. While I was checking out various catalogs that arrived that day in our post box, I came across to this recipe which was featured in a catalog of one of the biggest Supermarket chain in Australia where we do most of our weekly grocery shopping. Since I love seafood, I thought to try it last Sunday on Mother's Day as my special food for the day. After checking our pantry for some of the ingredients, I found out that I didn't have one of the ingredients but I had other alternative that instead of using fettuccine pasta why not try to use what was available in my pantry, spaghetti pasta.

Cooking Time: 25 mins Serve: 4
Ingredients:
-Olive oil from your pantry
- 500 g seafood marinara mix
-580g pasta sauce
-500g fettuccine pasta (I used spaghetti pasta)

Procedure:
1. Heat oil in fry pan over a medium to high heat and add the marinara mix. Cook for 4-5 minutes then set aside.
2. Simmer pasta sauce in the same pan for approximately 15 minutes or until liquid is reduced and sauce slightly thickened.
3. Add cooked marinara mix to sauce and simmer for 2 minutes.
4. Serve with hot cooked pasta

Watery Wednesday

Nurragingy National Reserve located in Doonside in the city of Blacktown, west of Sydney and about 10 minutes drive from where we live. .


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