Our daughter is growing up too quickly; I want to try and burn each and every moment in my brain. She has just turned five and is, of course, the most beautiful girl alive.
We enjoy doing so much together that I have decided to document it and share it. We will set ourselves challenges, learn from each other and have fun. The blog isn't a directory on perfect parenting or the perfect child because we are neither of those things. We just like hanging out.
Josie is a great 'cooker' and a pretty adventurous child when it comes to food. I love cooking and eating too. I like gardening and so does she. So we are aiming to grow most, if not all of our veg at home and try our hand with experimentation in the kitchen. We have recently acquired two Guinea Fowl and two Isa Browns to help us out here with eggs (maybe meat???) and heaps of 'poo gold' for our garden. It's virtually impossible to sex Guinea Fowl until they grow to about 20 weeks, if they will let you touch them. We bought our when they were Keets, hoping that this would semi-tame them. I am pretty sure one of the fowl is male and the other female but I don't really know. Anyway the one believed to be male is named Roy and he is pretty much in charge. I had the idea initially that if we had a male and a female that we could breed the fowl for meat. I still have that idea, but I am not sure yet how that will work out. I just figure if I want to eat meat I should have the guts to kill it myself.
Our garden is no Eden. It is a challenge in itself. Geoff, my husband and Josie's dad, is building a pizza oven. It has been in development for quite a while, a very long while, but we look forward to its final completion. In the next few weeks, he has planned a bit of a 'Focus Fest' on the project so it may even be ready before the end of winter...
The rest of the yard is really being cared for by our chooks. They are doing a pretty good job I must say, and hopefully by Spring, the soil will be perfect for growing more veg. I feel guilty that I am planning to eat their children. They are really working hard for us. But we look after them really well. They love curry, spaghetti and prawn shell soup. Can't wait to see what their eggs taste like.
Well being that this is the first post, and I have never done anything like this before I will leave it now to go and plan what we will do next. We will photograph and film as much as we can to add to the post. Josie would like her own TV show called "The Kids Cooker"...so we might as well have one here!
But before I sign off, I need to mention thanks to the beautiful friend of ours who suggested that we do something like this. I won't mention her name but she is one of Josie's best friends and favourite 'Aunties'...
