A Joyful Keeper

I have been clearly told that everyone is sick of reading the first line on my last post, and that “we’re all waiting for you to come back”! This was a response to the puzzled comment from me that I was still getting hits to my blog…. after all, if I am not there, why would anyone else be?!

Well, as it is, I am quite ready to come back. My sister and her husband and four children are still with us here for a few more days. We have had just a wonderful time together! We hadn’t seen them for two years and hadn’t seen little Kira at all before! Yesterday I looked after her two little ones while half the gang went out shopping.

I made the cover for the cot mattress just a few days ago. It was about time… we’ve had the portacot for over ten years. I have kept it so that when we have company with little ones, we can just get it out for them. I had this bright fabric in my stash. It is thick cotton and should last until my grandchildren arrive one day in the future, God willing! I am always so pleased to be able to go out to my stash and use what I have, rather than going out to buy more. I usually buy my fabric when it is marked down, so I don’t have to pay full price.

While Kira played in the cot in the lounge room (makeshift playpen!), Nick and I made chocolate chip cookies. Nick is nearly three. Is there anything sweeter than having an almost-three-year old sitting on your lap “helping” you make cookies? He was a great help too…. taste testing the chocolate chips.

“I need that one Auntie Joy!”

“Sure Nick…” (Good thing Mummy wasn’t there )

And then, the final taste test…..

I think it passed the test! Auntie Joy showed some restraint and only let him have one cookie before lunch. I mean, spoiling your nieces and nephews is permissible, but I didn’t want to push my luck too far. I might not be allowed to babysit anymore if I gave him only chocolate chip cookies for lunch…

Meanwhile, in the cot/playpen,… Miss Kira was overdue for her bottle. She started off on my lap,

but then the cookies needed checking, so she finished off back in her cot…

and almost fell asleep.

Sweet moments with sweet children….. oh, and sweet cookies…..