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  • Recipe Marbles Lost
    Marbles Lost
    Well, it is official folks. I might have just lost my marbles. For the last three weeks the house has been taken over by girls. Three little Polish girls and two little Galway girls. Girls, Girls, Girls. Of course Jack and Ron are here too,[...]
  • Recipe Meaty Meatballs
    Meaty Meatballs
    We have a very noisy house. I am kind of loud (and overbearing) for the most part, and the kids can't sit at the table and have quiet conversation. There is always lively conversation or a debate over something  (or nothing) going on. [...]
  • Recipe Early Summer Sun
    Early Summer Sun
    Fluid foggy clouds rolled by, my window this early morn. Smothered sun was dense and thick, and the rooster, a new day did warn. Cool and dampness slowly drifted, blazing[...]
  • Recipe Rosy in the garden
    Rosy in the garden
    Eh - not really actually.  You know, writing or blogging can be something that consumes me on a daily basis. Even if I am not sitting at the computer staring at a blank screen the words are rolling around somewhere. [...]
  • Recipe Wanna lick of that?
    Wanna lick of that?
    I do not like chocolate. To be honest, I do not like most things that are 'sweet'. That has not, however, stopped my husband from trying to convert me to the dark side, for almost fifteen years now. Growing up, Easter was filled with[...]
  • Recipe If I could rule the world . . .
    If I could rule the world . . .
    Another Paddy's Day under our tightened belts and I have slowly come to realise there are only a few weeks of procrastination left. Faced with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach because the 'end is nigh' I am plagued with the[...]
  • Recipe There are many ways to skin a cat
    There are many ways to skin a cat
    Can you just imagine the mother that named her child  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde . I mean imagine shouting that from the top of the stairs when you are trying to get your child to pick up his dirty socks? Well, the[...]
  • Recipe The Weekend got off to a bad start
    The Weekend got off to a bad start
    I normally don't mince words when telling it how it is, and I reckon this posting will be no different. I think that panic has set in over the lack of 'time' that I have left before we all go back to school. If it is not self-induced[...]
  • Recipe Letting go of Bunny-Love n' summer
    Letting go of Bunny-Love n' summer
    My lovely white duck Grace delivers me  a beautiful blue duck egg every morning. Well, it is finally here. I have come to the end of a four month long hiatus from University life and 'Móna-Mom and Móna-Wife' have officially left[...]
  • Recipe Black Magic Birthday Cake for Breakfast
    Black Magic Birthday Cake for Breakfast
    Just shy of seven years ago, we finished the final scrap of paperwork to adopt a baby whilst living in America. It took six months of paperwork, 12 weeks of 'adoption classes' and an untold amount of hours spent answering all the questions[...]