6 months old

Our princess is 6 months old today! I cannot believe it's been 6 months since she was born. I've almost forgotten the days when she had colic and wouldn't sleep through the night. Almost forgotten.... Haha!

Here's what she is up to lately:

• Putting everything- and I do mean EVERYTHING- in her mouth. If it's in her hand her mouth is wide open, ready to receive it. 
• Saying 'Ma-ma'. She is still perfecting this very important word but I was pleasantly surprised to hear her say it. She's practicing everyday :) 
• Making a wet razzing sound. She loves this sound. Lately it's been the first thing she does when she wakes up. 

Razzing away

• Sitting upright without support. 

She has been breast feeding exclusively so now it's time for solids. I'm looking forward to that and I'm pretty sure she is too because each time we're eating she starts chewing. Hahaha! Poor thing. Your misery is about to end.

Just For Laughs

A friend of mine posted this a while back and I found it hilarious! I laughed so hard because it is so true. Any breast feeding mother has had this happen.

I had a good laugh. I hope you did too.

Have a lovely Monday :)

Recap

It’s been about a year since I last blogged so a lot has happened. I got pregnant and was very very excited about it. I was even more excited when I found out it was a girl! I had my baby in March. It was a wonderful, scary, exciting and life-changing experience. I will do it again. Not soon, but again. You can read the birth story here.

At 4 months pregnant

At 6 months

At 7 months

At 8 months

Just about ready to pop!

So it’s been almost 6 months since the handsome farmer and I became parents and so far it’s amazing. Our princess is everything we could have asked for and she keeps teaching us so much. 

You'll be hearing a lot about her :)

I also left my job and so now I'm a stay-at-home mum. I'm loving it. It has it's challenges but it is so worth it. 

The farmer hubby is still as handsome as ever :) 

I'm glad to be back to the blogging world. 

I'm back!

I’m back to blogging. I didn’t think I’d ever make the bold step to come back but here I am. I’m excited and anxious. I want to share so much but I also want to keep some things to myself. Well, I guess I’ll figure it out as I go. I realised it didn’t help sitting around trying to find the ‘right’ way to go about it. Sometimes you just need to make the rules as you go. So, here I am. Back to share all the exciting experiences I’ll go through as a farmer’s wife and now a mother to a beautiful baby girl. I’m looking forward to sharing with you and learning from you. Let’s do this! J

Shredded pork & K.A.H.I.N.I Day

A few weeks ago I had K.A.H.I.N.I day. My kahini is Eleanor. We've been friends for a long time and because we're so close and 'sisters' doesn't explain our relationship well enough we came up with a word to describe our relationship:
K - Kindred spirits
A - Accept
H - Hearing (Listening to each other)
I - Intercede
N - Never leave
I - I love you

We were apart for quite a number of years since we were at different universities and she was not in the country so now that are back in the same country we're having Kahini day every month - which is basically a day for ONLY kahinis :-)

And we share a common love for anything meaty so it was only natural that we make shredded pork on our kahini day. It's a recipe I pieced together and I hope that you'll enjoy it too.

Ingredients

• 350gms pork
• 250 gms bacon
• 2 large bell peppers (green)
• 2 large onions
• Soy sauce
• Worcestershire sauce
• BBQ Sauce
• Garlic powder
• Ground mixed spices
• Corriander
• Ground white pepper

Note: The spices, soy sauce, worcestershire sauce and BBQ sauce should be used to taste.

• Chop the onions in rings or as shown below and the green pepper in strips.

• Cut the pork into strips. 
• Cut the bacon into bite size pieces. 
• Fry the bacon in a non-stick frying pan.
• Put the bacon in a separate dish and then fry the pork on medium heat in the fat from the bacon, add salt, white pepper and garlic powder.

• When the pork is ready (dark brown) increase the heat and add the bacon, green pepper, onions, mixed spices, corriander, BBQ sauce, soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce.

Yum yum!!! Especially with the garlic thyme potatoes. This is the recipe for the potatoes.

It was a fabulous day! :-)