School Holiday break

I am taking a short break for the school holidays as we still have a lot of work to do on the kitchen, and I am going to have some new items on the website when I come back, So hopefully I will get a lot done. Well thats the plan anyway!

I hope everyone enjoys the school holidays with there kiddies.

Have a beautiful day Lisa

My Husband gave me beautiful Roses

Second post for the day! My wonderful husband came home with the most beautiful baby pink roses just because he loves me and that I am sick at the moment with a cold.

Lisa

New photos for the website. Hope you enjoy!

Have a beautiful afternoon Lisa

New things are happening at our house

This is the vintage wall paper we found while ripping off the kitchen tiles, the tiles where glued on with something that was black ???? which ripping off the gyprock so that means we will be replacing the bottom half of the kitchen wall even more work. As we are doing all the work ourself, it seems like it will take even longer well that is all in the fun of working on an old house!

Hello all,

Well it's June and our new kitchen is starting to happen well before the kitchen happens we started a couple of weeks ago by ripping up the old ugly tiles that we had in the kitchen over beautiful floor boards and the day started well but ended not so good with a lot of large wholes in the floor boards.

So onto plan no two which was to lay new floor boards. So for the last couple of weeks I have lived with wholes in my floor not so good but knowing that it leads to my new kitchen!

So onto the next thing, I have had a home blog for a while now documenting all our home renovations so from now until we are done with the kitchenI will be updating daily. So I will leave you with some photo's Lisa XoXo

www.innfrenchcountry.blogspot.com you will also find the link to the top right of my blog

My flying trip to Melbourne

Well last Monday I had a flying visit to Melbourne to visit my very sick grandmother, My brother and I went down first thing in the morning and the only photo's I got to take where in the car we stayed at the hilton at the airport that was just beautiful but we didn't spend much time there we where up at 4.00am the next morning to catch a flight home so down one day and back the next I would have loved to do some shopping just not enough time.

The weather was normal for Melbourne cold and raining, we where inside most of the time with my grandmother she is 95 this year so she has done well for her age, I loved visiting with her it had been to long.

Have a beautiful long weekend all. Lisa XoXo

My Beautiful Boy & Asperger's Syndrome

This is my Beautiful Boy at the beach with his sister earlier this year

Well just over a week ago we found out our beautiful boy has Asperger Syndrome which is a form of autism. We have had a very long journey to get to this point He is now 9 years old and I had many tears on the day we found out. But now it's all positive we can now move forward and help him with this.
I wanted to put it out there in the hope that other mothers are going throught the same thing and can understand what we are going through at the moment or perople that have more information about this.


I have done a lot of reading about Asperger's Syndrome and it's 1 in 158 boys who suffer from this. Wow!
He is a high functioning person with Autism which means he is very smart he is really good with numbers and school work he just needs one on one help, but one of his problems is he has never been able to socialise with children his own age.

I have attached a basic understanding of Asperger's below.


From my clinical experience I consider that children and adults with Aspergers Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.The person usually has a strong desire to seek knowledge, truth and perfection with a different set of priorities than would be expected with other people. There is also a different perception of situations and sensory experiences.


The overriding priority may be to solve a problem rather than satisfy the social or emotional needs of others.The person values being creative rather than co-operative.The person with Aspergers syndrome may perceive errors that are not apparent to others, giving considerable attention to detail, rather than noticing the “big picture”.

The person is usually renowned for being direct, speaking their mind and being honest and determined and having a strong sense of social justice.The person may actively seek and enjoy solitude, be a loyal friend and have a distinct sense of humour.However, the person with Aspergers Syndrome can have difficulty with the management and expression of emotions.


Children and adults with Aspergers syndrome may have levels of anxiety, sadness or anger that indicate a secondary mood disorder. There may also be problems expressing the degree of love and affection expected by others. Fortunately, we now have successful psychological treatment programs to help manage and express emotions.


It would be best to google Asperger Syndrome to get the full understanding of it.

So we have a long road ahead. He is such a joy in our life and we both love him dearly and are thankful for everyday we have with him. He's my special Boy!


Have a beautiful mother Day!
I will be spending mine with my 3 children and my husband and having a lovely day out.

Lisa X0X0

Old Fashioned Home made Lemonade

Hi everyone,

As you all know by now both my husband and I love to cook and make a lot of our food. This is something that my husband has done last week and wow it just beautiful and we would never go back to drinking store bought cordial, we have our own fruit trees we have an orange lemon and madarin. The kids also loved it. You could also use soda water.

I thought I would share this with you all and it is so easy to do!

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups water

finely grated peel of 1 lemon

1 1/2 cups lemon juice

Ice cubes

Cold water

Lemon slices

Fresh mint leaves (optional)

1. Measure the sugar, water, and finely grated lemon peel into the saucepan.

2. While stirring contantly with a wooden spoon, bring the mixture to a boil for 5 minutes. Remove saucepan from the stove and let the mixture cool.

3. Add 1 1/2 cups lemon juice slowly to the cooled sugar mixture.

4. Pour the lemonade syup into the jar and cover tightly with the lid. The syrup can be kept in the refrigerator for 2 or 3 weeks.

5. When you're ready to serve the lemonade, put two ice cubes in the bottom of a glass. Pour 1/4 cup lemonade syrup over the icecubes. Add 3/4 cup of cold water and stir.

6. Float a thin slice of lemon and, if you like, a fresh mint leaf on top of each glass.

7. The recipe makes enough syrup for 14 glasses of lemonade.

Have a beautiful afternoon Lisa