Thursday also known as Quick!!do everything you can while Joel's at nursery -day

3 loads of laundry to do. 2 cups of tea already had. 1 fairly decent poached egg on toast for breakfast (done in the microwave! genius!)

So how to approach such a day? With a loose plan, a very large cup of tea and a sit down.

Rest is really hard. Especially for a type A personality. It's really important though- make sure that somewhere in your day is time for something you absolutely adore doing, even just 15 minutes.
For me- that's nothing.

I adore doing nothing. So for 15 minutes while Joel's at nursery and Luke is watching "baby television" i.e. the washing machine....I can do nothing. and its everything I hope it can be. I know that life will resume, as it always does, at a fairly breakneck speed, but I also know that that's okay. For now, quick!!! do nothing!! ....while I can.

Now that I have enjoyed doing nothing, I can do the next enjoyable thing: baking
Today is a rainy gloomyish sort of day that requires a baked good that is a bit dunkable with a hint of spice to warm you up from the inside out. I like making these because they don't fail on me like flapjack does. You also can't really dunk flapjack.

Jammy Oatmeal Bites

1 1/2 cups porridge oats
1 3/4 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon (pumpkin pie spice also works really well)
1 cup butter (225g) -- melted. (I use dairy free margerine in these)
Jam of your choice (anything in the berry family works really well.)

Mix all the ingredients together in the order given, except for the jam. Mix the oatmeal mixture up really well and spread half of it on the bottom of a well greased 13x9 pan. spread liberally with the jam. Then crumble the remain oaty mix on the top of the jam. Bake at 175C/325F for about 30 minutes or until they look golden and yummy.

Makes about 20-24 squares. Tested, loved and approved by multiple uni students.