Filed under: food and eating
Yesterday Domino’s Pizza had a special on for pizzas with a classic crust. You could buy as many as you wanted to for only $4.90 each so long as you went to pick them up between the hours of 11 am and 2 pm. We got 6 – two Godfather, two feta veg, one margarita, and one capricciosa. YUM! The boys love pizza too, and had it for lunch yesterday, will have it for lunch today and probably tomorrow too. It is funny how they will eat any veggie at all, as long as it is on a pizza base covered with cheese.
Filed under: family
We returned once more to the A&E yesterday morning as N took a little fall and split open the area above his right eye. The skin is just so fragile there, that it just peeled away and it bleed so much. The doctor, on seeing the broken skin, immediately prescribed some antibiotics. So three times a day, N gets Pamol, Augmentin, and the burn repair cream on his face.
Today, fortunately, we get to return to our regular doctor’s office where we know the nurses well and hopefully they will do a better job of dressing N’s burns. We are also going to try and get N seen by a doctor there, just to have a second opinion re the severity of the burns and the scarring issue.
Filed under: family
We took N back to A&E to get his wounds redressed this morning. Again, he was so well behaved. Do kids know it is better to behave well when they are sick or hurt?
The cream they are using on his arm and neck area is Silver sulfadiazine but they won’t use it on the face because it tends to cause the skin to go permanently gray. They were happy to leave his face to heal by itself, telling us there will be no scarring. However, as parents, we are a bit more wary and so bought a topical ointment that the clinic recommended, Mebo Burn Repair. One of its main ingredients is Sesame Oil, so after application, N tends to smell a bit funny.
We have to return to A&E tomorrow for another dressing change.
This morning I had my worst driving lesson ever. I have very little confidence as it is and I am a very reluctant driver, and that is why I have held my learner’s license since 1994! Anyway, it was my 9th lesson today and I just seemed to do everything wrong and I was so very anxious and the instructor didn’t do anything to help the situation. I don’t I am going to have any more lessons with him. I know all the key driving skills – well, I have been taught them – so now I just need practice and to raise my confidence level again.
However, what made the day worse was when I came home from driving to see my mother, who had been sitting with the boys, holding N, who is 18 months old, wrapped in wet towels. She had made herself a cup of coffee, and put it on the bench, thinking that it would be out of N’s way. But it wasn’t. He is much taller than we give him credit for. He brought down the steaming hot coffee and spilled it and burned his face, neck and arm, all on his right hand side. Mum called our doctor’s office who told her about the wet towels and then said to take him to Accident and Emergency when I got home. So that is what we did. Mum also called her friend, Jane, to sit with J, so at least we didn’t have to take J with us.
I sat in the backseat of the car with N on my lap, as we were worried about putting him into a carseat. When we got there, we were lucky to recognize Margaret, who used to work at our doctor’s office. I told her that “my baby is burned” and she took us in right away. A doctor assessed him and the burns aren’t that bad, but of course they are bad enough. The burns on his arm and neck had blistered and so were covered with cream and bandaged up, but nothing was done to his face. It was hard at that stage to determine where the burns on the face were due to his crying. He was actually really good at A & E – a real little trouper. We will have to go back tomorrow and Sunday and probably Monday too, depending on how well he heals.
Poor little guy. 
Filed under: movies and tv
I just watched Home and Away with the kids, and J, who is almost 4, sang the theme song! Maybe I am watching this show a little too often? 
My Dad is on a low fiber diet at least for the next 3 weeks and some sweets he can have are marshmellows and meringues. We bought him some marshmellows from the supermarket, but the store meringues are a bit dry, so I decided to whip him up a batch myself.
I followed Nigella’s recipe for Wedding Meringues from her “Feast” recipe book. I actually halved the recipe and still ended up with a ton of meringues. They tasted pretty good – they were nice and gooey and marshmallow-like on the inside.
And my Dad and Mum were impressed, and that is what counts, right?
Sunday night, we were invited to dinner by our friends A and S. S made homemade pizza for her little boy, so our boys shared that, and us adults got takeout from Hell Pizza. L ordered our standard – spinach, capers, shrimp, calamari and Camembert. A ordered Wrath without the jalapeño peppers.
For dessert, we had strawberries, and ice cream – a hazelnut one from Movenpick, and a chocolate chip one from Talley’s.
S is about 14 weeks pregnant and is just starting to show a small belly. She is due in early April 2008, so about the time of N’s 2nd birthday.
BTW, the boys loved the carrot pasta the other day. 
Filed under: food and eating
At our local Tofu Shop, I bought some carrot pasta, manufactured by Yupin Foods. J has asked for spaghetti tonight, so I thought I’d give the carrot pasta (spaghetti) a try. It is made from wheat flour, carrot juice, water and salt. I just don’t know what sauce to serve with it.
Filed under: food and eating
We went to this Japanese restaurant the other night, and ate so well! The one thing I tried that I had never tried before was takoyaki. They looked like this:
You could have them with either squid or prawns inside and we chose squid. They were delicious.
We also had miso soup which we haven’t had since we left the States – we used to eat (drink?) it all the time there. L made it at home even. Yum!
Filed under: driving
This morning was my 8th driving lesson and my instructor thinks I should go ahead and book in my test, which sort of surprised me as today, I did two maneuvers which would have had me failed immediately . However, I have been taught everything and the only thing I haven’t really done is overtaking. Anyway, if all goes to plan, I should have my restricted license before the end of the year, and my full license by the time I am 35!!!!!
