A bite to eat, a drink as well.

I love our relaxed lunch times together. After a busy morning of hard-core playing, it is so good to sit the kids at the table for some replenishment and delightful conversation. Being a born multi-tasker I find it a very pleasant and relaxing time where the kids are contained at the table (this alone makes it sweet, right?!) happily munching away, while I am able to tidy the kitchen, start preparing dinner, or other odds and ends. All the while, we chat away and often have some of our best conversations. Something about being occupied with other tasks (eating, housework) gives us space in our minds to also ask amazing questions and have memorable little chats. Today Lily asked me all about flooding, talked about going on another holiday tomorrow (sorry but no!), and sang a song she made up with the lyrics -

I love you and I love me,

I love you and I love peas.

What can I say, the kid is deep!!




Yes, she is wearing a fairy skirt... as she is most days!


Eli is usually merrily stuffing his face, singing himself a song and engaging in some kind of sibling game with Lily that I don't even pretend to understand anymore. It usually involves them both making strange noises and faces, trading food and laughing hysterically. They adore each other so much, it makes me weep and I just love to see them interacting.

Lunch is normally what I creatively like to call a 'Toddler's Tasting Plate' and by that I mean I empty out all I can find in the pantry and fridge to fill their ever growing bellies. Often it is a variety of things like slices of cheese, fruit, chick peas, sliced vegies, kidney beans, butter beans (etc, they love their legumes!), rice cakes, crackers, yoghurt, leftovers, etc. Every now and then I remember that most people eat sandwiches and make them too! Lunch can often seem like a conveyer belt of food constantly trucked by yours truly over to the table - only to be quickly cleared and followed by the little voices crying 'I'm still hungeeeeeee, Mummy!'. My kids seriously seem to be bottomless pits at times and I am already terrified of what the teenage years will bring... no doubt I will be packing shelves at the supermarket at nights in order to bring the trolleys full of food home to feed them!

Oh, what's that? What about my lunch? I eat (uninterrupted!) once the kids are down for that blissful afternoon sleep. Usually while tinkering on facebook the computer and/or watching half a mindless TV show. A mama needs her downtime, am I right??