Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

Ellidee

Morning M G - how wonderful to see that all your plans are coming together so beautifully - fantastic ! Sending you loads of positive vibes. I am so glad I found this thread, I find it very uplifting. Thankyou XX

whatatwit

Morning MG, so pleased that your work at school (for now) is done and you are able to open in a new and fantastic place.

I have managed to get my new work venture up and running and whilst it's quiet, at the moment, I'm sure it will start to take off once our schools go back and parents get caught up in the humdrum routine of life again.
So far, I have lost 5lb in weight :T and I'm starting to wear make up every day.
Don't want to clog up your diary too much, so I'll prattle on over on mine.

Hugs MG & all positive followers......we are capable of anything we desire!

Memory_Girl

TADA

had a quick read - but realised I really need to take time to sit down and respond properly - so i will, but later on when i am better organised and canthink in a straight line if you don't mind.

So far

Kids up, fed, showered and dressed
me too
unblocked kitchen sink - with a plunger so very dfw (washing machine backing up into sink - yuck!!!
Cleaned cupboard out under sink
Load of coloured washing done and on line
Load of white washing in and churning
loaf of sandwich bread in the toaster
packed lunch menu pinned up inside door
Dates for school activities transferred onto calendar


................ and a cuppa coffee.

think i need to pace myself today so after I finish my cuppa i will grab my timer and get the fly-lady boogie well and truly started.

First 15

Set halogen oven on to clean
clean bathroom
contact joiner to fix what time we meet at school
Put loaf of raisin bread in BM
Look out lemon drizzle cake recipe


DS1 is so excited about going back to school in the morning - this is going to be such a busy year for him.

And i am looking forward to getting back in to my "school groove" so that I can build something wonderful and get back to work.

Exciting days ahead

MG

Memory_Girl

In the next one

I put away all the ironed clothes
Stripped and remade my bed
Washed the bathroom floor
Put all library books in the book-bag and hung bag by the door
Fed the cats
tidied all my shoes under my hanging rail

was reading the flylady digest this morning. she talks about working as a team online. for the first 15 minutes she and her friends meet online and chat and decide what they are going to do. they then do 3 x 15 minute spurts, stopping for water etc along the way and then meet up again at the top of the hour for another 15 minute on-line chat.

Its nice to know that i'm not the only crazy one - lol

MG

Memory_Girl

time to chill out for a while............... oven on to warm, time to bake the packed lunch goodies.

Got manky bananas - so a banana loaf
Weetabix cake
apple, oat and raisin muffins
lemon drizzle cake

they should all cook at roughly the same temperature, so its worth putting on th ebig oven i think.

Memorygirl

lucielle

Could you post the recipe for the muffins please.
Thanks
L

Memory_Girl

cakes in oven - kids got lunch.

time to cook myself something scrummy before heading over to the school to fix the coathooks.

requested dinner tonight is pancake wraps, roast chicken, guacamole and veggies. (DS1 got to choose seeing as its the last dayof his holiday) Good news is that everything is in stock so no spending on food today. Guddled in freezer and found a couple of chicken thighs that will be just perfect.

hopefully the baby will sleep on the way to the school as he is really in need of along nap - him and me both - lol.

oops - there goes my breadmaker, time to take the raisin bread out.

ttfn

mg

mmmm - muffins are out and looking scrummy. DS1 will have a well organised lunchbox that's for sure. a dozen muffins will do them both over 6 weeks - bargain.

Memory_Girl

muffin recipe????

No they are mine, all mine I tell you ...................... LOL

Hang on a mo!! Here we are

heat oven to 180 c

In a bowl beat:

1 egg
150ml sunflower oil
175ml full fat milk

in a large mixing bowl mix:

75g porridge oats
125g plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
75g sugar
3/4 tsp salt (thats three-quarters not 3 to 4 tsp)
1 tsp mixed spice
150g sultanas
1 apple, peeled cored and diced

pour the wet mix over the dry and mix very briefly until dry mix is moist (don't over mix or you get tough muffins)

spoon into a dozen paper muffin cases set in a tray.

bake for 25 mins.

when cooked lift out of the muffin tin and cool on a wire tray. when cold, bag in an individual baggie and freeze (away from temptation). Pop into a lunchbox in the morning and they are defrosted by lunch. Full of good oats and fruit too and not too sweet .

hope this helps

MG

Memory_Girl

Reached that beautiful stage where the washing up is done and all that is left is to take the cakes out of the oven at the end of their time.

I have racks on the side groaning with delicious stuff for ds's lunches all just cooling down - and the warm caramelly, sugary, banana-y, cinamonny aromas are wafting through the house and making me feel oh so domestic goddessy!!!

Then I remember that by tea-time all these goodies will be cooled,wrapped and frozen - and i won't be baking again till half-term - lol. Feeling virtuous - but in fact I am an absolute skinflint, making my batch of baking last the boys 6 weeks or more.

Still i can dream a little about a life of wafting through a kitchen wearing a cute apron and listenning to Doris day - lol

My reality is grabbing a spirit level and heading out to screw coathooks o nthe wall.

later guys

Mg

Firewalker

Hi MG, hi all,

I have decided to check in with an update on my challenge and the Meta Secret. Yesterday the Universe sent me a message – a rather big and serious one. ‘You should rest a bit before you go back home and you should play with Little Boy more’ – it said. The message manifested in the charger for my laptop refusing to work. So, there will be no more writing till we get back home on Wednesday. So far I have written properly the Introduction and two chapters (and have about 20,000 more words to be shaped) – the important thing is that now I know exactly how it is structured and have found the voice. Little Boy read some of it and he pronounced me to be of ‘writer material’ – the Universe willing.

This explains why I have been getting on reading the Mega Secret (in Bulgarian) and posting about it on my thread. I will just recap here the seven laws of the Universe (these are the ones that complement the law of attraction and clarify it a bit). The laws are:

The Law of Mentality (the Universe is mind and we create our physical world by using our mind and our spirituality)
The Law of Correspondence (as above so below; as inside so outside)
The Law of Vibration (everything vibrates and changes; the mind, the spiritual and the physical vibrate differently; we control the physical by changing the vibrations of the mental and the spiritual)
The Law of Opposites (everything is in opposites and these are the same in kind but different in degree; that is why we can move between opposites with relative ease)
The Law of Rhythm (there is a rhythm to the Universe and its parts; if we learn to hear it we can flow with it so that things come easy; health is when our different systems are in rhythm)
The Law of Gender (everything contains feminine and masculine; the feminine is the creative part of us with ideas but these are enacted by the masculine; the two sides need to be in balance)
The Law of Cause and Effect (everything happens for a reason; actions have effects; we act according to what we think; control thought and you control action; you control you life and environment)

Sorry, this became long but I am bored – as inside so outside.

Firewalker