Lets get this out of the way first – it is hot here, very hot. Some once in a something years heatwave or so people tell me. I dunno, its just hot, not unbearably hot thankgod because we are doing a lot of walking. See our car is at the mechanics, what was supposed to be a quick windscreen replacement is turning into the 3 day saga of the dodgy rear vision mirror. ::sigh::
This afternoon I have the big interview with Annie’s teacher and school principal about an integration aide for Annie probably for 2011 because major screw ups mean we’ve pretty much missed the cut off for 2010 funding 
My mum used to make mashed potatoes using a hand held electric mixer. I’d never seen anyone use a potato masher until I met my husbands family. Now I mash by hand also. Saves on electricity.
Mum also used to mash eggs with butter not mayonnaise. I much prefer the salty more savoury taste of eggs mashed with butter. My school friends used to comment that my Mums egg salad sandwiches tasted different from their mums. Now I know why.
I’ve been vaccuming our kitchen floor and loungeroom carpet almost daily of late. Husband and I have transitioned to only using real ground coffee – I figured if I could only have two cups a day then they were going to be good. But making coffee first thing in the morning with coffee grounds is messy, hand eye coordination is at its worst. Yeah it could be prepped the night before but that doesn’t always happen. And emptying out the expresso machine thingy to refill also messy. There are coffee grounds everywhere and the bench where we make our coffee has streaks down the doors and sides from spilt coffee and milk. So frustrating. One day when we have money I’m going to buy a Nespresso Capsule coffee system.
My family had ice cream and jelly for dinner last night. It was too hot for anything else. Lucky for me Cottees make jelly with no artificial colours or preservatives. 
4 responses so far ↓
widdleshamrock // November 11, 2009 at 9:54 am |
I have a fire going !!!!
How will Annie cope with no aide do you think?
Sarah D // November 11, 2009 at 5:08 pm |
We also missed out on funding for the 2010 school year. I think it really sucks that the stupid Victorian Education Dept has such an early cut off with no exceptions for newly diagnosed kids. Barrett was finally formally diagnosed in early August this year.
For this school year we have been able to take advantage of some special funding available to defence families only for tutoring kids that we have put towards Barrett having a classroom aide for term 4 of this year for 2 hours/week. Only catch is that we had to pay that out of pocket all up front and are still waiting for reimbursement. Even just the 2 hours/week has helped alot, but there is no way we can afford to self pay for that for next year.
Rachael // November 11, 2009 at 5:40 pm |
I can’t imagine how hot it is over there, it’s winter woollies for us at the moment!
We have a Tassimo coffee machine…No mess brill!! plus you can have tea, chocolate, latte, etc….
Barbara // November 12, 2009 at 1:14 am |
Hoping some relief from the heat comes your way soon. Heat always makes everything else seem worse.