Birthday cupcakes

Last week was a really incovenient time for me to have my birthday!  Even though we posponed it for a few days, it was still very low key due to everyone feeling poorly.

Nevertheless, the kids helped to bake a batch of chocolate cupcakes.

Mmmm!  We baked a double batch so there were lots and lots and lots...!

I photographed these while little people were busy decorating the others with fairy dust:

And voila!  Birthday cupcakes for dessert, following a delicious dinner cooked for me by mrmac!  Thankyou darling!

A sick week...

As we have been sick this week with a nasty tummy bug, here are just a couple of points:

• beach towels make great bed sheets in the middle-of-the-night-emergency-sheet-change scenario.  They also double as blankets, and couch protectors!
• I have found you can never have too many buckets.
• the washing machine has been going non-stop.
• the "Get $ 1.00 for everytime you get it in the bucket/toilet" is working a treat.  However we are down quite a bit of money.  The count so far rests at: Tinkerbell - $5, Transformer - $ 12, Spot - $ 3 although he has missed a few times bless him :(  and poor Spiderman is on $ 0 .  He hasn't vomited as yet.  Touch wood.  At least the money is a little silver lining for the poor little souls.
• and finally, hydralyte, hydralyte, hydralyte!!  Those iceblocks have been really good.

I'm sure this coming week will see us in much better health.