Special bowl

Do you have any bowls, platters, glasses, kitchen bots that make you smile whenever you use them.  I have two ... My whisk, which my oma won for me when i was 12 in a Chelsea Sugar baking competition, and it is still going strong( although missing at the moment, suspect it is in miss fours drawer) .... The other is a plain glass bowl.

When i first started going out with my husband, he was living in the shearers quarters.  When i came over to visit, being the nice girlfriend, I wanted to bake, but baking bowls are not standard gear on shearers quarters.  So, the next time we were in town together he picked out this one for me to use when at his place.  It has a nice lip on the edge to hold onto, and is big enough to mix a roasting dish size cake (just, if you are super careful).  Trying to impress him, i tried a dutch recipe boeterkook (kinda like almond shortbread) .... It didn't work so great, so i went back to the Edmonds ccokbook after that.

So, what are your favourite kitchen items, and what memories do they hold?

"borrowing"

Borrowing a couple of images today from www.timewarpwife.com   They sum up me today - after a very fleeting night.  We have decided that it really is time to cut out bottles for mr.2, or at least transition him to water as otherwise he's going to have no teeth by 3 from all the milos.   So, last night was not a very happy space for him or us.  To be honest, I caved by 11pm and gave him a milo, but by then he was wound up and I was wound up and it went downhill.  The baby girl is still struggling with her excema.  We can't get testing done till August (need to wait till she is one).  Thankfully not to far off, and in the mean time it is a matter of finding a cream/lotion/potion that helps her itching - any advice gladly received.  Throw in me forgetting to nappy the middle one - and a 3am bed change ... today is about gratfully receiving the grace from God to keep on keeping on in this job I've been given.  Thankful for a husband who has gone out in the cold to work for our family - thankful the fire is going and thankful there are friends on the other end of the telephone if I need it. 

Girls

I took a photo of the girls playing together this evening.  Miss 3 thinks that the baby is ready to play with her at all times as her baby, so it was nice  to see her playing with her at her level.  It made my heart go awwww.  I hope and pray these two will grow to be best buddies as well as sisters.  While I have several very special heart sisters, special SIL's - sometimes I wonder what a blood sister would have been like.  I'm super thankful the girls have each other and also pray that they will have heart sisters who are as amazing as mine are when they grow up.  I hope you know who you are ... Love you all loads!!!!