I'm not much of a sourdough girl, I'm all about the sourdough discard!! Focaccia, dutch babies, muffins, pancakes, you name it! You can use sourdough discard in so many different things and I'm here for it. 🤤 -Christy #sourdough #sourdoughdiscard

You may have noticed that we didn't do Valentine's Day Mother's Day flowers this year. It was not an easy decision, but our flower growing chapter is closed for now. There were a few factors involved in this decision. 1. My hands. Shortly after Dexter's birth 8 months ago, I developed carpal tunnel and de quervain's tenosynovitis in both hands. Essentially I have extreme pain in my wrists/hands/fingers every single day. I'm awaiting a specialist appointment to have surgery after cortisol injections only gave minor relief for a few days. I can't physically hold flowers in my hands! I can't even chop veggies for dinner without my fingers going completely numb and having extreme pain. (It's happening right now as I type this caption!) Harvesting flowers, stripping stems, arranging bouquets in my hands, all completely out of the question for me right now. 😔 2. Mum life balance. Working with the tight time frames of flower work was just outside of the realm of possiblity for me right now with the ages and needs of my kids. With Dexter's needs as a growing baby, by pumping milk for him, and starting to homeschool Clara this year, it just couldn't happen. So for now, I'm closing the chapter, and we are planning on using the space in our garden for another exciting project that is already underway!! -Christy

Clara decided she wanted to plant some seeds. So she filled a tray with soil, made the holes, and I got out some sunflower seeds for her to plant. It's so satisfying as a gardening mama, that my girl wants to plant her own seeds and have her own plants and garden spaces! -Christy

Getting organised for our Friendsgiving Dinner tomorrow night! We love celebrating Thanksgiving as Dan is from the USA! The food is incredible and it's so fun to share it with friends who also have ties to the USA or have a passion for the food. 😅 I'm making quite a few things as I just love to cook it all to enjoy it. I'll be making sweet potato casserole with sweet potatoes all from our garden. We grew a mix of orange and also a few white & purple ones too. Then I've got some turkey rolls defrosting to roast tomorrow. I made the bread to make stuffing tomorrow. Then I'll prep the batter for an apple cobbler using our canned apple pie filling. And a last minute decision I'll make a corn casserole too because it's just so so good. I can't wait! 🤤🤤🤤 -Christy

🍋When your fruit shop has 5 cent lemons, naturally you buy 100. Needless to say, after I bought my 100, a 20 limit per customer rule came into effect. 🤣🤣🤣 Sorry about that! We juiced the entire 100, froze some in ice cube trays or in 1 cup cubes, then made lemon cordial🥛with the rest. Tip: strain your pulp out before pouring the lemon juice into the syrup!I found this reel in my drafts from 6 months ago. Oops, forgot about it in there. 😅-Christy

Dan has started a new tradition of pancakes for Sunday breakfast. 🥞 As much as it's convenient to buy the shaker pancake containers, nothing beats homemade pancakes! All he needs to do is dump out the jar in a mixing bowl, add the egg, milk & vanilla, and mix it up. Super quick and easy! And I love that there's no additives or preservatives in our mix. Just simple ingredients that we know and can pronounce. 👌🏼 I've asked Dan for a portable jar vacuum sealer for Christmas, so that I can vacuum seal our jars with dry ingredients such as this to create our own "fast foods". It means they stay shelf stable for longer if we don't get through them quickly. I plan on doing up some muffin base and cornbread base jars soon! I love this concept as it makes baking something so much quicker and easier. Little things like this really do save time. Thank you Jessica @threerivershomestead and Chelsea @littlemountainranch for the inspiration! I don't have a lot of time to spend on food preservation at the moment with our new little baby, so little projects like this are quick and satisfying to get done! ☺️ -Christy

The rest of the week was a bit of a blur! Dan finished bricking in the hole from the AC, electrical was roughed in and another GPO added, I sanded, patched and painted the bedroom door, we bought all the trim, a new door frame, and new kickboards, had one thousand subsequent Bunnings trips because we kept forgetting things, bought and hung insulation, and got started on hanging drywall. Dan's been back at work this week so progress has been slow since. We have a couple of small pieces of drywall to get up then Dan can start cutting trim for me to paint, then taping and mudding can begin. It's going to be a slow burn as we try and fit in the work at night or on Saturdays. Hopefully we get it done in time! Only a couple more months to go until baby brother arrives! 🤰🏽 And still trying to get the winter garden in. 🫣 It only should've been planted 2 months ago, no biggie. 🤣🤣🤣 -Christy