The biker and the baker

On Friday, after doing our weekly Friday lesson on God made the world and me, we decided to make some rainy day biscuits as it was...  a rainy day. We whip out Mrs Lawson and flip through to her rainy day biscuits recipe and start checking our ingredients.  We have to go to the shops for ground almonds and icing sugar.  So, off we go to Spar but hobsmock and gollybonkers, they are out of Icing sugar.  That's a first for me!!  Are we back in the dark ages.  Okay, well off we go to Pick 'n Pay (the BIG one) and guess what??  Yes, no icing sugar!  What is happening?  Anywho, we decided to give the icing sugar hunt a break as a merchandiser told us that it's a supplier problem! So, back home with ground almonds and no icing sugar.  Jethro and myself make cookie dough and we have a jolly good time doing it!  The first time ever that I enjoy, actually have a smile on my face, making some type of dough.  Usually it's such a horrible task, I avoid it at all cost.  But today

Guess who got another tooth this week?  Micah's 9th tooth made it's appearance and this time it's a big one.  On the left, at the back, not right at the back, but not right next to his 4 teeth in the front.  Tony says it's one of his front molars.  Okay, so his first molar!  The left front molar! Yes, I have another tooth!  What a journey his teething has been!  He feels the pain and we know all about it.  We live on Vidol and red Panado syrup.  He gets super angry and frustrated when in pain.  Last week Sunday, we all got ready for church but I decided to stay at home with him, as he was crying, no, screaming in pain the whole morning (now we know why). Jethro on the other hand was so easy, we did not even know he was teething.  We discovered his first tooth at 6 months, when the teaspoon went clink on something in his mouth and upon closer inspection we discovered a little toothie!  And that's how it went with the rest!  I was always baffled when other moth

Last week whilst Jethro was busy doing an exercise with his fringe hanging his eyes, I decided that is as much as I can take and the decision was made to cut his hair.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE his long hair but the hair in the eyes just got too much for me and I thought we could make it a yearly tradition, that way his hair could grow long again up until the point where it gets too messy. I initially only wanted to cut a little bit as I'm usually a bit overeager in my hair cutting attempts (Tony and Jethro can both vouch for that :) ).  A fringe was cut and I was careful to try and round it in with the longer hair as I was thinking that a straight cut fringe will be a bit like a girls hair.  It looked very nice and we decided to leave our barbery for the day until Tony gets home to give his opinion. Tony home, likes hair!!  But Jethro wanted his hair shorter "like Grandies"  and then "as short as Daddy's!".  So, on Spring day (Thursday the 1st of Septembe