Martha's Marvellous Munchies

Is that really the end of another month already? Time flies when you're getting no sleep... Toby - relates almost everything in life to a Peppa Pig episode. Peppa Pig Easter egg. (I should have cropped this photo, shouldn't I?) - loved hunting for small chocolate eggs so much that we had to do it over and over again, until they started melting from so much handling. Wearing my boots - will argue about pretty much anything. Toby: "I don't like curry." Graham: "You like chicken tikka masala, don't you?   That's curry." Toby: "Yes, but I don't like all curry.  I don't like... bird poo curry!" Since this got a laugh, he followed up with dog poo, cat poo, book poo, DVD poo... - was worried about his baby teeth falling out. Me: "Don't worry, yours won't fall out for a long time. When they do, it's fun! You put the tooth under the pillow, and in the morning there's a piece of money there...

Now on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been rolled away.  She ran to Simon Peter and John, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!" So Peter and John ran to the tomb; and in the growing light they could see the body of Jesus, exactly where it had been laid.  "Foolish woman," they said.  "Were you not there when they took him down from the cross?  Did you not see the blood and water come from his side?  Tend to the dead with your ointments and spices, and trouble us no longer with stories of missing bodies." But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look in, and saw that Jesus' body was indeed still there.  Then she washed it, and anointed it with perfume and precious spices, and returned home. On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples were together with...

I stumbled across the idea of palm sundaes for Palm Sunday on another blog I read, and decided it was something we had to try. Of course, whenever I think of these things, I somehow picture us all sitting happily at the table enjoying our dessert after a stress-free dinner, and then calmly reading the story of Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem and possibly even discussing it a little. Well.  Maybe in ten years. What actually happened was Toby insisting that he didn't like any of his dinner and refusing to eat it for about an hour.  Which meant that he didn't get any dessert.  Meanwhile Theo, who was supposedly fast asleep upstairs, started wailing the second I put the plates on the table (which he does every. single. dinnertime.  I wasn't kidding about that extra-sensory device ).  After much baby feeding, phone answering, Toby disciplining, toilet taking and even garage tidying, Graham and I finally got our dinner eaten and sat down to our Palm Sunday rea...

The thirtieth of March was Mothering Sunday here in the UK.  To celebrate, our church had put together a little presentation of things the children had said about their mums.  It was pretty cute; you know the kind of thing.  "How would you describe your mum in one word?" got answers like, "Fantastic", "Beautiful", and "Bossy boots".  The next question was, "What is your mum good at?"  I was just giggling at some of the responses, when up on screen flashed: Hanging the washing out. (Toby, 3) Now, our church is a large one, but I'm pretty sure we have the only three-year-old Toby in it.  Therefore my son thinks that my lifetime pinnacle of achievement, the one thing I could win awards in, is putting clothes on racks to dry.  Isn't it great to know what you're capable of? It really is as exciting as it looks. I have to admit, I have had rather a lot of practice.  In fact, ferrying clothes from washing basket to machi...

Well, you know what it's like: you wait ages for a blog post and then two come along at once!  Time for the regular news slot again. Graham took this great photo at Rolleston-on-Dove First, some family portraits: Toby Face painting from a birthday party.  He insisted on the blue butterfly.  - can pick out words which rhyme, and words which start with the same letter. - likes sticking stickers on everyone. - loves playing hide and seek, although his idea of hiding is to tuck his head under something and forget that the rest of him is still visible! - has got very wet helping to wash Dad's car, Mum's car and Mum's bike. Quotes: "If I flash my eyes it looks like thunder." (translation:  If I blink my eyes it looks like lightning.) Describing an encounter with a neighbour's dog: "And she jumped up and she licked me in the face and I got all covered in dog juice !" Theo  - still has bright blue eyes - will he ...