covid-19 memes

here is a meme dump. for all the laughs i've had during covid-19. considering memes have possibly been the only thing that has kept me from going insane, i feel like i need to have the best ones recorded somewhere to look back on and laugh in years to come. 

so enjoy, with my compliments.

anzac biscuits

are you even australian if you don't make anzac biscuits on anzac day? well, you probably won't believe this, but i have actually never made them before. what a loser! hahaha. well. this anzac day i fixed that and the kids and i got to work. 

joseph was a great help and got right into measuring things and rolling the mixture into balls - and the end result was delicious! i am so glad i found a good recipe to try the first time. 

the recipe i got is from just a mum and was just perfect!

Just a Mum - ANZAC biscuits

Ingredients

2 cups flour

2 cups packed brown sugar

2 cups rolled oats

1 Cup desiccated coconut

250g Butter

4 tbsp Golden Syrup

2 tbsp Water

1 tsp baking soda

Instructions

·  Preheat oven to 170C

·  Measure flour into a large mixing bowl and add brown sugar, rolled oats and coconut and mix well.

·  In a small saucepan heat the butter slowly until completely melted then and add the golden syrup and water. Once combined remove from the heat and add the baking soda - whisk together until completely combined.

·  Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the butter mixture and combine the ingredients well.

·  Line an oven tray with greaseproof paper and roll tablespoons of the mixture well in your hands to form a ball - repeat with remaining mixture, set approx. 1.5 inches apart to allow for mixture to spread, press down with a fork

·  Bake biscuits for approximately 10-12 minutes - until they just begin to turn golden brown then remove from oven - they will firm up on standing.  Allow to cool for 5 minutes on the tray then remove to a wire rack until completely cool.

·  Store in an airtight container for up to a week (but good luck getting them to last that long!

highly recommend this recipe, they are chewy and delicious. i'll definitely be baking them again and not just on anzac day.

anzac day crafts

after seeing an incredible idea from another ward in our stake, we as a primary presidency extended a challenge to our primary children, asking them to create poppies and decorate their mail boxes with them for this unexpected anzac day. 

there has been a driveway at dawn movement created, asking for those who would have attended a dawn service, to instead go to the end of their driveway with a candle and listen to the last post, which was broadcast over multiple stations.

after seeing this amazing egg carton wreath idea on my friend kate's early childhood activity page, i decided we needed to make one of our own to hang on our letterbox, so we got to work! it was so easy to make (did the old use what you have trick haha) and looked super cute when it was done. 

i also had the kids painting poppies and decorated out the front of our house with them ready for tomorrow.

anzac day is going to be different, but the reason we commemorate remains the same. to remember those who gave their tomorrows, for our today.

the shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old

age shall not weary them, or the years condemn

at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them

lest we forget.

daily walks

we've been walking nearly every day in the past few weeks while we are obediently staying home (other than this!) and social distancing. we have walked past this park over and over, but had no idea what was there! from the road it just looks like bushland...

then the other day madeline said again to me, "mum what's down there?" so we went down the very uneven path and found ourselves a little oasis. at the end of a wooden boardwalk style path there is a roman bath style lake, with a few steps around the edge going down into the water - and even a waterfall! it is just gorgeous, other than the colour of the water haha and they have started calling it the secret garden.

the kids were loving the bunch of ducks swimming about and promised they'd be back to feed them soon...

which we have every day since! they must be loving life. bread, cereal... you name it, my kids have fed it to those poor ducks. maddie has even named one of them deanna, but says she doesn't have any duck friends cause she is always off far away from the others.

we also explored this incredibly gorgeous lane way that we have often spied from the car, but have never had the chance to walk through. it is so beautifully cared for with such gorgeous bushes and flowers growing down both sides - which clearly has not been done by our local council...

apparently it's done by the people that live either side and i love them for it! what a gorgeous thing to do.

the kids love it and want to walk through there all the time now and i can't say i blame them... i am rather partial to it myself.

i am loving our walks - this time with the kids each day chatting is the best! 

driveways and distancing

with many of us around the world obediently staying home and social distancing, there have been photographers taking shots of people at home. 

my friend bianca has done some for friends around our area and asked if she could pop around last week and do some of us. she got some great shots of us all out front and the kids thought it was the best.

little alex even got in on it and bianca got some great shots of him.

he's such a little doll! ❤

so here we are - the kendall family during covid-19. documented for us to keep forever.

thanks b! we love them!

we love our little fam!