A day in the life of a housewife and mother.

Day 12:  Bullet your whole day.

My day started with waking up to Leah talking to herself in her room over the monitor.

• Gave Leah a bottle.
• Popped Leah in her bouncy chair in the bathroom and had my shower.
• Made bed and tidied bedroom.
• Popped Leah under her play gym while I....
• Fixed Leah's bottles.
• Got dinner out of the freezer - tonight Sausages and salad.
• Wrote menu on the board for the week.

• Cut up strawberries and ate half for breakfast (other half put away for desert).
• Fed Jake.
• Folded washing while talking to Leah under the play gym.
• Changed Leah
• Put Leah to sleep
• Put clothes airer outside in the sun.
• Fielded some emails and emptied my RSS feeds.
• Played adventure world, my facebook game of choice at the mo.
• Talked to Shaye on Facebook about how our bubbas were doing.



Nice Clean Vanity :D

• Cleaned bathroom and toilet.

• Fed Leah.
• Played with Leah - cycling with her legs, play gym, pat-a-cake. Fun times!
• Took photos.
• Played with Jake - throw the bone, fetch the bone, repeat.

• Read some books to Leah. Leah read a story to mummy as well.

• Changed Leah and put her to bed.
• Checked Facebook.
• Drank cold coffee and ate an apple (supposed to boost metabolism) while I watched a bit of Dr. Oz.
• Made salad for dinner and boiled eggs for lunches.

• Update FB status
• Threw bone for Jake to fetch again.
• Got Leah up.
• Dance with Leah.
• Said "mumumumumumumumumumumumumum" to her for a good 5 minutes.
• Fed Leah.
• Ate my lunch and cleaned up while Leah played under her play gym.

Getting good at this tummy time thing

• Changed and fed Leah (again!), put her down for a sleep.
• Made custard Tart for desert, here is the recipe;

Lemon Tart


400g short sweet pastry
 Filling:
1 cup prepared creamy greek yog-it
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
2T Lemon and Barley fruit juice (I use the Baker Halls brand)
1t Natural lemon essence


Roll pastry to 3mm thickness and use to line a dish. 
Place a piece of baking paper in the pastry case and blind back for 15 minutes at 190 degrees celcius.
Remove baking blind materials and back for another 5 minutes.  Cool.
Whisk all filling ingredients together.
Pour filling into pastry base and back at 180 degrees celcius for 25-30 minutes or until filling it just set. Cool before eating.

• Wrote some of this blog post and uploaded some of the photos so I don't have to do it all later!
• Got Leah up and had a chat with her on the couch.
• Played with her under the play gym.
• Fed Leah and had lots of cuddles, very sad little girl with a sore tummy I think.
• Put Leah down to sleep.
• Updated photos on facebook (365).
• Completed a smile city survey.
• Practised some chalk drawings outside for photo ideas I have.

• Bought washing in and folded it up. 
• Got bubba up and took some photos, then we had some more fun play under the play gym - the excitement that comes from a few hanging toys - you have no idea!
• Got bath ready for bubba's bath while she enjoyed the excitement on her own.
• Bath bubba, clothe bubba, feed bubba.
• Watch Ellen.
• Feed bubba, wrap her up and put her down for the night.
• Empty dishwasher.
• Finish this post!

Other things I will do before the day is out include watching shortland street, making dinner when Mr. Man gets home, reading my book and playing on the iPad while I watch TV.  I neglected to write in copious times I played my scrabble turn on Words for friends today too, lol.

My favourite part of the day was being read to by my beautiful daughter and seeing Jake make sure Leah was OK when she was having a little cry.

Time to get ready to do it all tomorrow!