Yamilainspire

Thursday, March 8, 2012

International Women's day 2012 and my day so far

Still in my pjs at 2pm
I have not had a shower or brushed my hair, or have changed from my pjs.
Zalia is currently bf and about to go to sleep*. Joaquin is playing quietly and just before this he was counting to 100, trying to reach infinity. He asked me "Is there more numbers than letters?" I said "yes, we do not know how many numbers there really are".

So far today I have:
-woken up at 6.25am, and got out of bed at 6.30am just after Jas gave me a kiss goodbye and left for work
-Went to toilet and spoke to mum on the phone
-calmed down an upset 4 year old that could not find me when he woke up and thought that due to the rain there was a big storm and the glass windows would break
-breastfed my 22 month old after she woke up
-tried to calm my 22 month old down who still wanted to bf more but I insisted on putting on the Wiggles on the iPhone to distract her
-ventured into kitchen without a 22 month old hanging from my right breast (yippee)
-Made pancakes for breakfast
-gave 3 pancakes with honey to starving 4 year old

-ate 2 pancakes with organic maple sauce and even managed to drink a cup of coffee made fresh yesterday

-cleaned a little (picked up toys, clothes...)

-made fruit salad for 22 month old who only ate grapes and did not want pancakes

-chatted on Skype with my parents

-cut a whole in a blue plastic box with a sharp knife and a flame so my son could tie this bucket to his train and take it for a ride with Z's dolly in it as a passenger

-had to calm a 22 month old who did not like this idea

-change a few nappies

-painted toe nails (mine) with OPI "Your such a Kabuki queen" and tried out a sparkling colour on J's nails

-played dress up with kids dinosaur costumes and fairy princess

-made tomato sauce for lunch and pasta shells

-made chicken curry for dinner using this recipe and adding cubed carrot

-fed kids lunch

-fed kids numerous amounts of fresh slices of bread with butter

-watched kids dip bread into sauce and ask for more pasta

-cook more pasta

-fed the kids slices and chunks of parmesan cheese while they were hungrily awaiting more pasta to be cooked

-emptied dishwasher
-loaded dishwasher
-did a load of laundry
-washed sheets
-tried to put a 22 month old on a potty
-soaked and cleaned a dirty all in one cloth nappy
-had ONE lindt lindor chocolate ball that i got from my birthday from a friend and note be told all the chocolate balls are squashed and have already been chewed on by my 22 month old

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I still have to
-make a tea and have another chocolate
-convince my 4 year old son not to wake his sleeping sister
-clean floors
-clean bench tops, cook top
-make bed
-hang clothes
-hang sheets on line while sun is out
-fold and put a load of clothes away
-have shower

-get ready to teach at 6pm

-teach at 6pm

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Happy International Women's day for all those women who juggle and have so much to do every day!

*Zalia is now asleep lets see how long she sleeps, in her cot. I will probably still be in pjs when she wakes!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

my birthday

It was my birthday today.
I am half way through my life. Closer to 40 than 30.
We went out to dinner to Jamie Oliver's new Italian restaurant.
We had to wait for an hour and half but a man with a striped shirt and an air of "I mean business" came up to me as I was walking away trying to decide if we would wait an hour and half to eat there or find somewhere else to eat for my birthday. He came up to me and said "Look you have kids, I will try to bump you up the line so you have only a 15 minute wait. As I have children I know what it is like".

Well I be dammed, that was so nice of him.
Jas was still parking the car next door and when I saw him and told him he was pleased.
We waited. Jas took the kids for a walk down pitt street, we waited and about 40 min later we saw the man again the man with the stripe shirt. He came out told us "Your table is nearly ready, the people are just paying".
In the end we got a table, upstairs. The kids were super hungry by now.

The food was yummy.
Jas had a glass of house wine, I had an aperterif ROSSINI --Vino frizzante with red berry purée
We had two starters (entrees)
-truffle risotto rice so creamy and just right
-prawn linguini with tomato sauce
-bread with olive oil and herbs
-I had a rocket and radichetto with parmesan salad
Jas had the lamb for the main
I had the yummy scrumptious chocolate brownie for desert
Jas had the fruit tart.
There was a good kids menu and the kids shared a spaghetti bolagnase and

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Art Gallery of NSW with Kids- Picasso

We have wanted to go to see Picasso at the Art Gallery of NSW for a while now but because some weekends were sunny and we were down at the beach, and others we were busy we just did never get around to go. But Today Saturday the 3rd March 2012 we FINALLY went. It was not so bad and it was a lovely day out with the family.

We actually drove in and parked at the Domain car park for $10. The fun thing about this is walking through the moving walkway which leads you under the domain and all the way out to the other side of the city near Hyde Park.

We walked towards the new Westfield and had lunch at the food court. Yummy laksa soup for Jason and I, fish and chips for the kids. Joaquin loves fish, if he could he would eat fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

We also walked past all the new very expensive luxury brand shops- Mui Mui, Prada etc. They were filled with luxury handbags, clothes, jewellery, bulky but short security guys and attendants fluffing around the merchandise but there were no customers. We walked through Zara and Zara was full of customers and people buying last minute outfits for the Mardi Gras.

I did not take any photos at the Art Gallery. But the exhibition was great and it was amazing seeing P. Picasso's paintings and learning a bit more about this talented man. The colours, the style, the way he used his paint, the emotion it was all there and I could feel it and live it. There were 22 sculptures in the exhibition, and different rooms representing different periods of his life.
However the art gallery is the art gallery it has not changed, the way we view art has not changed. The exhibition cost $25 per person, children did not pay and we received a black booklet with information on some of his paintings and the periods of his life. The children's booklet had more information than the adult one and more clever interactive things to do with your children and questions to ask about the paintings to your children. I had fun doing this with Joaquin, Zalia unfortunately fell asleep in Jas's arms and then was placed in the pram throughout the whole time we were with Picasso. Each art work had a little label, with the name of the art work and some info on the materials used and date he did it but that is all. Is art meant to be so subjective or can we have some more info on each work. I mean there should be an iPad or a screen in the room you can access more information on each painting. It is all very old fashioned, there is no interactivity. Even at the wiggles exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum (we went there a few weekends ago) there was so much interactivity and iPads placed on the walls with movies and clips about each wiggle and aspect of the wiggles.

We also went to see the Art Express exhibition, with works of art selected from students who did their HSC in 2011. There was some unbelievable works. Very talented. I loved the work by Georgia McGlennon
Ascham School called Stigmata, Cassidy Holland Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus and Lisa Koesterke, Mullumbimby High School and Hannah Clements Sydney Girls High School (My old school, I also did art for my HSC.

At the art gallery cafe we stopped by and had afternoon tea, carrot cakes, coffee and banana bread and hot chocolate for the children. It was $23 all up and the cake was very yummy and made in house in the Art Gallery restaurant. The coffees were really really good but took a while to come.

We left the Gallery at about 4pm and had to find an alternate route to get home as Oxford street was closing down from 5-midnight for the Mardi Gras Celebrations. We also had more fun on the moving walkway on the way back to the domain car park. I remember walking along there when I was younger in awe of it all, the paintings, murals, the big city!