What to write?

It's been so long I'm not quite sure what to write about, I'm outta the funk. Mmmmm... I suppose the topic of food is a good place to start...

Inspired by my fanatically healthy sister I just made the yummiest tuna salad. It has lettuce, capsicum, snow peas, heaps of parsley, sesame and sunflower seeds, corn, some dried dates, tomato, parmesan cheese and a dressing of olive oil and lime juice. SO GOOD! But I can never get it to taste quite as good as hers. While I was cutting and dicing Bubby was pulling his nappy off, dripping his icy pole all over the floor, trying to find anything in the pantry that's good for spilling (curry powder, rice etc), pulling out all the dried banana from its packet and serving it up on his breakfast plate along with his left over mango, rambutan and vegemite toast and trying to spot all the baby geckos that are all over the place at the moment.

Once upon a time he responded to most things affirmatively. His cute little "yeah" sounded like "yeow" and everything was "Yeah", "cool", "okay. Now he sound quite disagreeable and everything's "no", "no", "no", "no", "no" punctuated by a high pitched scream and furious head shaking. Little punk!

He can say heaps of hard stuff now like "pumpkin" and "penguins". He's getting the hang of using a plural for more than one and he can count up to two and speak in sentences! He knows who are the girls and who are the boys and therefore who has a "dicky" and who has a "mimmi" (you have to talk about something when you're both sitting on the pot).

Izzy's Dad has finally landed himself a job that he enjoys and includes travel. He's the sound and lighting guy for the Sydney Hotshots. (Think "Manpower".) So far he's been to Bathurst, Brisbane, he's in New Zealand now for the next month and when they get back will be going to Perth and Darwin! I was in Cairns on the weekend and got to go op-shopping (YAY!) and came across a Hotshots T-Shirt. Ha ha. I think Izzy's a bit petrified that he's going to start working on his muscle definition, learn all the choreography and audition! Please no!

I've started up a "Mum's Movie Night" and extended an ongoing invitation to some of the hardworking Mums I know to ditch the kids on a Thursday night and come over to my place for a movie and dessert. So far it's only been my sister and my wonderful neighbour, so it's been a nice intimate affair but I hope some others manage to come every once in a while. So far we've watched Juno with pecan danish and The Nanny Diaries with sponge roll. Watched There Will Be Blood with Greg the other night, he thought it was a bit boring but I loved watching Daniel Plainview descent into madness and alcoholism. It was riveting. Daniel Day Lewis rocks. I loved him in The Crucible. That movie was awesome. Does anyone have any movie recommendations for a bunch of ladies because the Nanny Diaries was so Walt Disney. We need something a little edgier than that!