Colour Bomb

Hi Y'all

Sorry it has been a little while since i posted but life has been a little hectic in this house, especially with the healthy life challenge still on, plus Tafe for the cake decorating course one night a week, family birthdays galore around this time of year as well, and just generally being a mommy of two boys under two :-)

So i have a 2 and a half year old boy who is just gorgeous, so funny and beautiful to cuddle, as well as feisty, boisterous and Wild. 

As you can imagine capturing his attention for long periods of time can be a bit tricky at times...

He LOVES his toy cars especially monster trucks and can play a while on his own with those, and unfortunately he does love a bit of tv too...

But i love to find a creative activity that lets him loose his artistic side, engage his mind and simply allow him to have FUN and i gotta tell you guys this was a total WINNER!!

As you can see i took a Picture of the stuff i used, which is

Any liquid food colouring you wanna use (For Colouring the shaving cream, and the water and corn flour mix in the squeezy bottle as well as the bath water, cause i put yellow in the bath water to start, then blue in the squeezy bottle so when he squeezed the blue into the yellow it turned green, quick fun science lesson there)

A paintbrush (Just to paint the coloured shaving foam all over the bath)

Popsicle sticks (To stir the colours into the shaving foam)

Shaving Cream (The Best part of the whole experience because Jordan just simply LOVES it, he calls it snow and it is just such a magical element to him)

Corn Flour (Nice to thicken the water and colour mix in the squeezy bottle  not too much cornflour or you will end up with oobelek! An entirely different post, would you like to hear about it?)

Plastic cups (For the shaving cream and the colouring, also to just swish water in after)

A squeezy bottle (For the colouring and corn flour)

Lavander oil (Just because it was an activity that i did before his afternoon sleep and lavender is meant to soothe and relax)

Blowing Bubbles in a bottle (Just for another fun element)

Jordan was so super excited about his activity when i told him about it, he could not wait to get in and after 45 minutes he was still loving every minute, even though his water was now black from all the colours mixing, we had spilled the bubble mix over and all the shaving foam was finished, he was still playing like he could be in the bath another hour or so...

Needless to say you have just GOT to try this.

Have any of you got any keeper activities for toddlers?

Please leave comments because id love to know if you would like more posts like these, also if you tried it and how it went, and just to generally get to know you and do life together!

God Bless Y'all

The Best Banana Bread Recipe EVER!

Honestly i had THE blackest and like the worst rotten bananas i have ever had hey, i really was just about to throw them in the bin because i kept meaning to make banana bread with them, then i thought ah no they are just too rotten now and was about to throw them in the bin and thought, no no no i have to make the banana bread, so they were kept for another two days because i didn't find time to make the banana bread EEEK

Gotta love google though cause i googled best recipes for really rotten bananas and i found this BEAUTY, it is for a chocolate banana bread and it is SUPER YUMM!

So if you get really rotten bananas then this is the recipe for you :-)

Enjoy and let me know what you thought of it.

Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe

4 overripe medium, bananas

1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon baking soda

Pinch of salt

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

If your overripe are frozen rinse under warm water to defrost or let defrost on counter until soft enough to mash.

In a large bowl, mash bananas. Add melted butter and stir with a wooden spoon until incorporated.

Add sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda and salt. Stir until incorporated.

Add all purpose and whole wheat flours and stir until incorporated.

Chop semi-sweet chocolate into different sized chunks and mix.

Pour mixture into 9x5 loaf pan.

Bake for 40-50 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool on a cooling rack and eat warm or at room temperature.

God Bless y'all

Taking time out for joy

Hubby is out tonight on a manly bbq and i have time totally to myself :-)

Kids are in bed, one asleep one still chatting away to himself, and I'm taking time out for joy, "nice sigh of relief"

So i have toy story 3 playing in the background while i surf through blogs that i love, there is so much great stuff out there, I'm also eating cadbury favourites and whipped up a chocolate banana bread which is currently baking and going to be enjoyed with a tall glass of icy milk once it has come out and cooled a little.

Yum, i love the weekends where i get to just simply take time out for these little joys of life.

I must admit i do feel selfish in a way, crazy hey... I feel like i should be doing some housework or spending time with God or something "productive", but at the same time i really just want to do these little things that bring me joy when i get alone times like these with no expectations from anyone.

Any other mamas out there feel guilty to enjoy their free time however they want to when the rare moment occurs that we get it?

God Bless Y'all

Mind Altering...

Hello everyone, been a few days since last post, sorry for those hoping for a post a day i do try :-)

Honestly my mind is totally altered by my exercise regime, i cannot convince you enough about how doing exercise again has CHANGED MY LIFE!

I was a sad person, i have two beautiful boys and they were not getting the best from me, i have a lovely husband who was not getting the best of me, i have amazing family that wasn't getting the best of me.

I was grumpy most of the time

Tired too much of the time

Not interested in getting out of the house lots of the time

Just plain stuck in a rutt

Exercise has changed that, it has given me  new lease on life...

I have ENERGY now

I feel like getting out the house

The kids get the best of me, i actually feel like taking them to the park, playing with them and doing fun things with them out of the house.

I feel more confident

More happy

and more satisfied with me.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE find the time to get into something, try a bunch of different things and when you get onto something you love then keep doing it, because it will revolutionise your life, it will it will it will...

Be encouraged, it is never to late, you are never to big or too slow or too past it, you are not, no matter how big or beyond help you think you are, THERE IS HOPE, YOU CAN DO IT, you truly can, i know cause i did!

Life is too short to be sad

Get up and start now.

God bless you 

Hot, Humid and PAYING for my sins!!

Hello Good people

Given that i was very bad this weekend with my eating i was very happy to say hello to my walk with my healthy life challenge folk this morning, however BOY was it a STINKER!!!

As you can see i worked HARD and hopefully literally walked my butt off  tee hee hee

It was a super humid day and i was walking a little slow and the fast people went ahead, the fast people were going the long way and the slow ones the short way so i decided id run to catch the fasties so i could go the long way and boy did it KILL, i was panting so hard the fasties heard me coming and waited for me in the cool of a shady tree, lucky when i jog i sound like a NOISY GONG, otherwise id have 

1. run for NOTHING 

2. had to walk alone in that heat and 

3. RUN FOR NOTHING!!!

So safe to say i burnt something today, you know when the fitties (Fit people) say things like "NO EXCUSES get out there no matter what", well i tell ya believe them, you just gotta get out there and do something, ANYTHING, you will definitely feel better for it.

My Fat CRIED today and i am so proud of ME :-)

God Bless Y'all

Diabolical

Hello Lovely readers

See That picture up there thats 3/4's of my dessert from tonight, EEEk right, this is the end of a very bad bad bad binge fest when it comes to naughty food!!

Well thats being a bit extreme really, all it was was dinner at my moms sat night which was yummy homemade hamburgers and chocolate mousse and this very same berry crumble and ice cream.

Then peanut m&m's and then crackers, dip and pate at grandmas a few hrs ago now this rather Large serving of more berry crumble and chocolate ice cream, plus my brekky, lunch and dinner :-)

So i fell off the horse, but I'm climbing back on tomorrow and thats all that matters in the end.

Walking ans squash tomorrow yippee.

I have all the right intentions all weekend, i thought get the zumba on the wii on and go for it, or get that pilates dvd on, but time slipped away as it down on the weekend, and the kiddies took priority.

All good if that happens, just remember when the week hits again, just start again, cause there is always room to get back up and start trying hard again :-)

Adios Good People

God Bless y'all

Im Bringing Flexy Back!

I can't tell you enough how much i am enjoying getting fit again, a class i didn't expect to love but absolutely LOVE is Body Balance, I'm like so impressed at how it just trains your body is so many areas.
I can't believe how much i sweat in that class, i reckon almost as much as i do when i do sh'bam, you wouldn't think its possible with stretches hey!
I love that i am getting so flexible again, it feels so good to be able to bend and push my body to do stretches that i thought were beyond me in my 30's ha ha ha 

The teacher is just amazing too, it always helps having a great teacher.

Once this initiative is over I'm going to get into body combat again, i know its gonna kill but its going to accelerate my fitness to the next level that i need it to go to.

Heres to feeling GREAT people!!!

God Bless y'all