One thing I never remembering doing with my mum when I was younger is baking. I think I maybe did it with my nana’s once or twice but nothing that sticks out at the front of my mind. My love of baking started when I was about fourteen and I made my first apple pie. It was the best apple pie ever and I went on to make one pretty much weekly until I started finally getting a social life and didn’t have much time to be at home in the kitchen. Things sort of faded out a bit for a few years but my love of baking picked up again about eighteen months ago. Muffin’s, cupcakes, cakes, pies. Anything that involves a set of scales and a whisk gets me excited. As you know, I made Emelye some Mew Mew Power cupcakes for her birthday but I didn’t make Meghan anything so I still owe her a huge chocolate cake (Peppa Pig eats chocolate cake so obviously, Meghan wants chocolate cake) which I’ll make once I remember to buy some cocoa powder because I keep forgetting. One thing I really love doing is sending Alex to work with all the stuff I have made. I always get a good responce from the lads at work and I have even had a request a few times to make certain things again. My M&M Cookie Bars went down the best but I haven’t made them for a while. I might make some for work this week for them all.

This morning, me and Meghan woke up and came downstairs to make apple oatmeal muffins for breakfast. I took the margarine out ofthe fridge last night so it would be ready this morning for me to make. I was going to make them last night but there’s nothing better than a warm apple muffin with some butter on. Meghan loves to stand on a chair and watch me mix the ingredients. She’s the same when I cook. She likes to watch me cut and add all the ingredients into the pan and watch it cooking. Even though she doesn’t actually do any mixing or anything, I still explain whats going into the bowl and how many. Even though she’s only two, I really want her to learn these simple things like how to cook and bake. Its a really nice mother and daughter time that I can’t wait to do properly when she gets a little older. I have to say though, even though she didn’t do anything other than stand on the chair next to me, she still managed to get flour all over her face. How do kids get so messy without even doing anything?

Oh and the muffin’s were beautiful.

I made BBQ sausage casserole with mashed potatoes and carrots for dinner and, Meghan actually ate something! She ate all of her mash and carrots and she had a tiny piece of sausage! If your wondering what all the fuss is about then I’ll explain. Ever since we realised her allergy to fish (did I ever mention it? Well she’s allergic to fish, specifically white fish we think. They can’t test her because she’s too young so we have to just avoid it for now) she just won’t eat anything other than pasta, spaghetti bolognese and recently, cheese and tomato pizza. And you know, thats fine and everything but it must get boring. Most nights I’ve been making things and she’s not eaten anything so I’ve just given her two pieces of toast. Its nice for her to try something different and it’ll be so nice for her to sleep all the way through. When she’s not eaten a proper dinner, she’s been waking up around 4AM.

I currently have the most annoying hiccups ever. They’re the ones that make your whole body jump when you hiccup. Holding my breaths not working. Meghan thinks its really funny.

Meghan’s better now. It was just that one night that she wasn’t too well and it just disappeared the following day. I’m glad it wasn’t anything serious anyway. She seems to have cheered up a lot since her not being ill. We’ve had two happy days that have had hardly any moaning or crying in them. I hope she keeps it up. This Meghan is a lot easier to deal with.

I made pancakes from scratch yesterday! By the time we got to the shop (about 3.30PM) all the pancake mix had been sold. Emelye really wanted pancakes with it being Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day, whichever you want to call it. Whats Fat Tuesday anyone? I keep seeing people saying Fat Tuesday. Is it basically the same?) They turned out really well anyway. I’ll definitely be making some again. Its a lot cheaper than buying pre-made or a mix.

I’ve almost finished my book. I have around 80 pages left now so I’ll probably have it finished by tonight. I’m really enjoying it too. I’m starting on Apples by Richard Milward after this. Its one of the books I got from the library on Saturday. Its not very long so it shouldn’t take me more than a week. I’m glad I’m back into reading.