Real Food, Real Kitchen, Real Parenting

Inspired by Calamity Jane's post on "real kitchens". Here is my kitchen after an afternoon of cooking with two small children in tow. Lasagne, beef and lentil stew and chicken stock if I remember correctly, plus assorted snacks for the larger child and myself.


And after an hour (yes, an hour) of cleaning...

Rhythm, routine or just stuff I want to get done...

This is a fairly mindless post, prompted by the fact that Monday is turning into a regular home day around here which is great. So I thought here was as good a place as any to jot down a list of Monday chores:

• Vacuum/sweep
• Tidy kitchen/dishes/laundry/feed the chickens - all the normal daily stuff
• Mop
• Change sheets if needed
• Grind flour
• Cook something that attempts to use up the remainder of last week's organic veggie box
• Start a new batch of beef broth (I much prefer the name "Broken Bone Soup" as it's called in Healing with Wholefoods)
• GET RID OF (one or two) THINGS! More gently known as decluttering or even purging. It's sorely needed around here.

Oh, and of course play with the kidlets. That kinda goes without saying.

Changing rooms

P and I are swapping rooms. He is moving his meditation and painting into the teeny space off the playroom which was previously the sewing room. Which means I now have a big big room for sewing/office/guest space. As always, moving into a new space brings piles of good intentions for being super organised and productive. We shall see. Hmm.