A Diary of an Overworked Mum: Food

Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Just an update

I finally had my appointment today to find out the results of my MRI. It turns out that I have an absent diaphragma sellae. As far as I can understand it, this is a lid over part of the brain that is supposed to be empty, but because I am missing the lid, it if full of whatever fluid is in the brain.

Yeah, I don't know much about it and I think I will be happy to keep it that way. I have a few friends, not naming names but you know who you are - that google health related things all the time and they always end up totally freaking themselves out so I know to stay away from google.

Anyway, the doctor told me that she doesn't know the significance of this, or where we go from here so she is sending me to a neurologist. Apparently this may be a big wait, like a few months. Great.

In other news, I stopped by a health shop today and spoke to a woman there about Zay. I told her what Im trying to do and how I'm having such a hard time doing it. I ended up buying some calm strawberry flavoured tablets and fish oil. Following that I went to the supermarket and ended up decided that for now I'm just going to try to cut out all preservatives and a lot of the sugar. Cutting all sugar doesn't seem like a possibility.

Oh and also.. I get my MacBook Pro soon! It has been ordered :-D I'm THAT excited! Until it arrives I'm sort of on a study break. Other than a few knowledge questions, there is nothing else I can do because I need my new Mac to start on the database units.

I really don't think I've got anything else at the moment. I started this blog as a way to get everything out, and I had a LOT to get out at the time, but as time has gone on, my migraines have gotten worse and just taken over. Everything else has taken a back peddle for me.

I haven't worked on my quiet books since last year, I hardly am able to cook from scratch anymore and between my migraines, study, housework and the kids being off at school, daycare and friends houses, kids activities have become a bit of the past too. It actually really sucks. I want to go back to getting excited over coloured rice and felt food and stuff like that. Can I just quit everything else maybe?

Sometimes the kids growing up is an awesome thing. Sometimes it just sucks.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Food Food Food!

I did some cooking with Bay today, although he was much more interested in eating it then cooking it.

Shit I make adorable children don't I? It's a talent of mine..

Here is another talent; cooking amazing food. I really do, I swear! Here are the links to the recipes I made with Bay this afternoon:

Carbonara

Minestrone

Banana Bread

Yum Yum!

And I wanted to share with you guys some of my lunch box ideas too. If you are a parent then you probably know what it's like to struggle with filling lunch boxes 5 days a week. I remember being a kid I certainly didn't enjoy the idea of eating a plain old sandwich day after day and now that I am a mum I hate putting my kids through that. But there isn't really much you can do either, I mean, once they reach school age they can't heat up left overs and they can't put their lunch boxes in the fridge either so that really limits things. My kids are terrible at looking after things too so cold packs in the lunch box is a big pain for me, especially when I send them with Izzy, but I won't get into that right now.

So here are this last weeks lunch box mains:

Pretty Cut sandwiches. The first time I did this I used different sized shapes to use as much bread as possible but I was still unhappy about the amount of bread that went in the bin with the crusts so now I cut a large shape out of the middle and the kids can pull the middle out to eat it and also eat the rest too.