Cook'n Restricted Diet

I got a call last night from an old friend. She wants me to cook dinner for her parents as gift from her to them. Her father, Bill, has some diet restrictions, so I am going to have to think outside the box a little. He really likes Thai food, which is great, but can't eat sugar, wheat or rice. This leaves me with basically a meat and veggie dish. I haven't posted on of these up here yet, so I will in the next week or so.
I have a couple of idea floating around in my head. The first is a veggie stir fry that uses coconut milk and red pepper. It is a hot dish and he likes that, so it should work well. The second is a beef and mushroom stir fry, it uses oyster sauce though, which has a fair amount of sugar. I was thinking I might be able to sub out the oyster sauce and instead use fish sauce and soy sauce. I will have to take a look to make sure these will work for him... Fun, fun, I love a challenge.

The best part about it all is that I have been doing these little dinners to raise money for a scholarship at a school in Africa, Nigeria specifically. My friend has offered to donate a little money to that cause, so I am happy about that.

Sleep - Hard to come by...

I am in serious need of a good nights sleep. I don't know why, but when I get behind on sleep it is so hard to catch up with the three kids. Darius was up till around 1:00AM last night, I think that he is teething again and his mouth is hurting him. Asa just about always comes into our room in the middle of the night. Sometimes I get up to put him back in his bed and other times I don't even notice him. Liam is finally sleeping most of the night in his room but, he generally gets up around 6:30 and comes in to wake us up. The combination of all this has got me tired.

I have my morning coffee though, so at least I can pretend that I am awake!

Feb. Fun

Hey there,

This month is turning out to be pretty busy. I didn't think that it would be, but it is. We have had several birthdays (Asa's, our niece, Russ) and a couple of births for ViviAnne to attend as a Doula. All in all, this has meant that I haven't been able to post like I would have liked. But don't worry, I have a couple of pictures to tide you over until I can write a bit more latter in the week.

We got Katie and Darcy to come over and take family pictures of all of us. Oddly enough, we didn't really have a picture of both ViviAnne and I and our kids all togethers. Lots of ones with one or the other of us, but not all of us together. So we fixed that this weekend. We also took a bunch of Black and White pictures that turned out pretty good, I especially liked the ones of Darcy blowing the bubbles and the one of ViviAnne (show here)...

I convinced Katie to start entering an online photography compatition and I will post her pictures for her. I am posting it in Fark's farktography contests. Which are pretty cool and a nice venue to compeate in. I will post them under my justfisch account though. When she gets a little older, she can start posting them her self.

Hope that you enjoy some of these pictures!