Life on the Pickle Farm

Honey! Honey!

March 28, 2012

If you follow my facebook page you will already know that we have collected our first honey from our hive yesterday! At the moment we are squeezing the honey from the combs by hand, and it’s all rather exciting! We are slowly filling a bucket with golden, home grown honey, and another container with the [...]

Over The Top Chocolate Cookies Plus a Cadbury’s Give Away!

March 26, 2012

A bunch of Cadbury’s Chocolate was delivered to my door the other day. Some family blocks, a few smaller bars and some packets of the new buttons. Some days it is good to be a blogger. The Father Figure and I chomped our way through a family block. He took the bars to work for [...]

Compliments, My Kids and Me

March 22, 2012

“Wow you are really good at folding the washing!” I told him with genuine admiration. “I know” he said. I couldn’t help but smile. In his four year old world there is no reason to be coy about accepting a compliment. We both knew he’d done a great job folding the big pile of hand [...]

Adventures in Cooking from Scratch: Rhubarb and Apple Scrolls.

March 19, 2012

We love a good bun in our house, and Monday is ‘bun shop’ day when we stop in at our local little bakery and get an after school treat before running off to tap and ballet. Our little town’s bakery makes the best ever apple scrolls. They are huge and soft and fluffy and appl-ey [...]

Becoming a More Positive Parent.

March 17, 2012

Lately there have been way too many days when I have wished for bedtime before 9am. Too many days when I’ve made less than wonderful decisions. Too many days when the arguments start before I even get them home from school. Too many slammed doors, raised voices, and ‘in a minutes’ that never happen. Lately [...]

$2.50 Buys You Hours of Fun

March 13, 2012

I am such a sucker for a rainbow, so when my big boy spied this packet of plasticine at the local shops I gladly kicked in the extra fifty cents so he could afford it, but I didn’t realise how much fun we would have with it! My boy loves playdough, and initially he was [...]

Adventures in Cooking From Scratch – Things I want to try.

March 12, 2012

It’s a holiday Monday here today, and that’s my excuse for this lazy post. That, and the fact that the last two ‘from scratch’ items I’ve cooked haven’t quite worked out the way I wanted, so I don’t have any perfect results or recipes of my own to share today. So instead I am sharing [...]

Remembering…

March 9, 2012

Each week I am trying to remember something special that happened, something that reminds me to stop wishing my days away. This week I need to remember… This moment. This moment when three siblings sat down together to explore a new book. No fighting, no name calling, no excluding, no howling. Just sisters and a [...]

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Printable Love or Lunch Box Notes.
February 3, 2012

I am back making school lunches and next week my big boy will need lunch for kinder (preschool) too, thankfully only once a week, but all of them want to know when I will start leaving notes in their lunch boxes! So I think it’s time for some new lunch box notes. I am not [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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