Hit and Run

So today I’m a little shaken up over my driving and a hit and run. Its ever so common in Dubai but its still a shock when it happens to you! I’ve just started driving around independently and today was only my second day but there you go. Out of nowhere a speeding van, oncoming, knocked the bejammies out of my side mirror and waltzed on. As a newbie I was busy checking the front of the car, putting hazards on and trying to check the damage out, when infact I should have been memorizing the other van’s license plate number to haul his butt into a police station 😦 My three year old reminded me ‘mummy we should call police!’ siighh…Now I feel quite rotten and to top it off when I was parking I FURTHER damaged the darn steel piece off the side mirror that was sticking out. What more could go wrong today?? Considering the day just started its depressing to know that things can, do and will continue to go wrong all the way no matter what you do sometimes. I was wondering whether to cook dinner tonight after all because I just might burn the house down in the process! 

            Anyway now its all out I feel much better. but now I’m busy foraying into the world of insurance policies and what it entails. The only good thing to come out of this whole mess would be ‘experience.’ When the kids start driving we’ll have knowledge at our fingertips here about what to do during any given situation..well almost 🙂 While I’m still in my twenties all this and more goes on, imagine what a wealth of knowledge I’ll have stocked up by the time I’m fifty?! Ofcourse by which time the kids will be in the ‘we know better than you mum and dad’, stage and sod all our hard earned experiences! I feel like telling my husband to get a taxi back home. It might be safer for all of us…

            Oh well, so we’re down to my third blog, whoopee and its quite amazing to see that this isn’t my happy place, but a diary to document the day and laugh at things..although some things I’ll be laughing about ten years from now. My son has promised to ‘buy mummy a new car,’ then he changes it to ‘daddy will buy you a new car mummy,’ so there went that hope, and now we’re seated companiably together on the sofa meddling with our separate instruments. I can hear faint strains of ‘mickey mouse clubhouse’ coming through and baby is asleep, so there’s more peace in the house than normal during mid morning. I do like that very much. Opposite our building I can see housewives and helpers hanging clothes out to dry too which reminds me there’s housework to be done. Time to slap on my gloves and haul the Dettol into a bucket and begin the days chores. I’m sure if you’re at home you’ll be doing the same thing, so we’ve got a connection running there. Doesn’t everyone 🙂 Happy cleaning, and hopefully we all push through successfully with no broken bones or unwieldy tile skating in sight!

  

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Baby Talk…

So today I sat down in front of one of my favorite shows ‘E-News’ and yes, I still love ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ no matter how weird it gets. Seems like this is totally the year for babies. They are literally crawling out from everywhere right! How cool is it that some of my friends are sharing their kids birthdays with Prince William and Princess Kate, Jessica Simpson and Channing hotness Tatum’s little bubs not to mention ‘NorthWest” :p lol! My daughter just missed being a 2013. More’s the pity, but nevertheless she doesn’t realize she’s not in the ‘fame studded lucky year list,’ and continues to perform like a star with her baby babble and attitude! I also have a 3 year old son thoroughly impressed by the little madame and now he keeps squealing ‘I’m a princess too mummy!” Oh to be in a house full of baby giggles and to be surrounded by the things they say…and don’t! No one told my 6 month old daughter that while she airs herself out she shouldn’t be peeing on the hall tiles. I found her quietly babbling to a suspicious looking puddle on the floor this morning while her bare knees slithered excitedly trying to balance itself in a little pool of pee. Kids!

Its summer right now and totally hot. We live in Dubai so we’re battling it out Middle Eastern style and trying to brave it through like the desert sheiks and sheikas that we are. Its not easy when you have a three year old a little bored to tears wanting to riot in a space wider than our living room. I haven’t taken to driving the streets in style just yet because I’m a newbie to the steering section of life so I decided to play-doh him out instead. Being a great lover of the stovetop I wanted to cook him something delicious looking. It ended with laughter from his side, sighs of happiness from mine and great praise to this marvelous recipe I found online.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Playdough-Play-doh/

N.B.- For cream of tartar substitution put in white vinegar to that quantity or a little less..

You can even bake the figurines and it makes for cute ‘kiddie ornaments’ to treasure I baked a crocodile medium sized 130’c for half an hour on greased baking paper. You need some clear varnish brushed over for preserve and durability too
The doughy creatures made at home came out well, although when there’s extra heat circulating the house I might recommend kneading a drop more vegetable oil in after everything’s done if the finished product is still sticky. But if you must reheat then its best done on a flat frying pan. Littla man and I had a ball all the way! Here are some of his finished doh products. Not Van Gogh by any stretch of imagination, but he is happy and he played for hours! Chalk up one for the “Summer Mummers’ Team! My anticipation now lies in this; what will tomorrow bring??