Backyard Pool & Packed Lunches.

Our backyard pool is up for the summer season. It's been years in the making as we started out with a tiny paddling pool, no pump and constantly cloudy water 3 years ago. We've learned heaps about pool pumps and chemicals in those years. I'm grateful for the husband who took the lead in assembling the pool and connecting the pump after I'd prepared the ground for the pool. It definitely helps to work to our strengths!

The children have spent hours in here over the past couple of days and it is lovely to be able to soak in it on hot afternoons. 

On a different note, I've taken a break from preparing lunch boxes for the year. Our school-going children have taken up the responsibility of preparing their own lunches for school. For the first time, they're taking sandwiches for lunch. 

"Mum bought fake cheese!" 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yes, we bought sliced cheese and a few other ingredients we usually don't to make it an easier and special experience for the children.

They have a list of fillings to choose from and are allowed one sweet filling for the week.

cured meats, (nibbled) cheese and salad greens for our big girl.

Ever the one to pair sweet and savoury flavours, our little man made himself a Nutella/cheese sandwich.

They were quite happy with their self-constructed lunches and mostly finished all they'd packed, which doesn't always happen. I have a feeling that there's greater impetus to finish the food when they've actually packed it themselves.

One more week of school for the children before school's out for the year.