Lifestyles, balancing and patience

"the boy has no patience" Yoda - Empire Strikes Back

And neither do I apparently. It's quite a struggle to not be so angry lately at my daughter when she whinges for no reason whatsoever. Thankfully it doesn't happen much, but I'm angry with her and then angry after at myself for being angry....ARGH! Vicious circle lessons, 101.

I wonder sometimes if all mums go through this angry, frustrated thing with their young babies. I can understand being angry at a toddler or an older child, but is it normal being angry at a baby? Who knows. I guess the most important thing is to learn patience and not to be angry now, so that I'll be better prepared for when she's older.

I'm hoping the fitness regime I've got going will help me out, although I might need to involve some more boxing to really sort things out. The challenge is going well, and although it's only week 3 I believe I've proved to myself that I really do eat quite well normally.
I haven't taken photos of my food creations lately, as it's all been so rushed to cook and eat unfortunately. But it's definitely all been tasty stuff! I am making a sundried tomato, olive and herb damper to take to an Easter Sunday picnic so I will try and get a photo of that. Providing it looks photographic...I might have to hunt around the internet to see if there's any info on how to make bread look good...

Prettige 

Paasdagen!

Happy Easter!

Time to scratch

(photo left: pancakes with blueberries, banana, honey and lemon...YUMMY)

YES! Today I have time to scratch myself. It's been a challenging week:
  
 - I've commenced the 'Foxy' challenge at my gym 

   - Been nursing my husband who tried to use his face as a     handbrake on his mountain bike (see facebook for charming photo)

   - Working out my new job as a swim instructor and should have confirmed work hours on Monday (yay!).

   - Just got an email from my current/old work asking if I'm still interested in staying with them for some relief work maybe...

Somewhere in there I still have a daughter to love and enjoy too! Keeping a work/life balance this week has been tricky but when it comes to work/life balancing I do enjoy a challenge. 

It was a little scary visiting my husband in hospital though, not knowing if he was going to be a: fine, b: quadriplegic c: paraplegic. But really, as long as he had his mind in the right place the rest was just going to be a technicality. I remember thinking: "Good thing I haven't made any final, irreversible decisions regarding work yet!". 
But it's all good for now, except I've just got one frustrated man on my hands. 

So cooking this week has been scrappy to say at least. I've tried to make it look as good as possible considering that the gym nutritionist is going to see my food log, which is a form of motivation thankfully. No baking for a while either - more because I'll have no time or energy to exert in that kitchen!

(photo left: Afternoon tea at Mum's - monte carlos and a cuppa)