blogtober Archives - Raisie Bay

My Boo has always loved baking. She loves cookery programs and is always willing to help in the kitchen. But most of all she loves making cakes and cooking. Today’s photo is blast from the past.

Photo of Boo baking, with a large bowl of cake mix and shes licking the spoon — *Who doesn’t love licking the spoon?*

I think this photo captures Boo perfectly.

Baking with Bee Berrie

We were talking the other day about the last time we went to London with the kids. I’ve been since I’ve been in a wheelchair (And hated it) but the kid’s have not been for years now. The last time I went on my own with Boo for cookery class with Bee Berrie when I was a Happy Eggs Ambassador in 2015.

We woke up at 5am to get the train to London in time for the class that started at 9am. I had woken with a migraine hangover but I knew I had to do this for Boo. We drove to the station and caught a train to London, where we then caught tubes to the place we needed to go.

Boo spent the whole morning baking cookies and cakes and we had such fun. When it was over we had about four giant boxes to carry back to Birmingham.

After leaving the class, laden down with boxes, we managed to take a wrong turn and got horribly lost. I put all the boxes down outside a shop and tried to find a map to see where we had to go. The shop owner came out and asked if he could help. He gave me a big bag for my boxes which made things easier. (It’s not wonder I got lost the boxes were so big I couldn’t see where I was going!) Then he gave me instructions on how to get to the right tube station.

Baking Cookies

Yesterday Boo said she wanted to bake, she hasn’t done so for a while. So I went in the kitchen to watch while she got all the ingredients she needed, weighed them and baked chocolate chip cookies all by herself. I’m so glad that she’s not lost her love of baking. I may ask her to make a cake today 🙂

Here’s the cookies she baked yesterday.

a plate of chocolate chip cookies that Boo Baked by herself. — *Chocolate chip cookies*

Never Doing That Again!

I didn’t have a photo for this week. I really didn’t know what to post. Then I saw that today’s Blogtober18 post had the theme ‘Never Doing That Again.’ I tried to think of what I wouldn’t want to do again but, although there may have been a few things, I didn’t really think I had anything of interest to share. (Apart from eating Octopus, it made me sick and I could taste it for days!)

Then I thought of things I’d never be be able to do again, and having any more kids is one of them. My kids are my life and I am so grateful that I have them, they are all my blessings. But I definitely won’t be doing it again. Baby days are over!

So, I’ve dug out this old photo of all three of them together while the little man was still a baby, Boo was 3 years old and Star was 5. This was snapped early one morning when the girls grabbed a book each so I gave the Little Man one too. Awww, I miss them being like this, but if I’m honest, I’m glad I won’t be doing it again. Although, to be fair, it’s not like I get much more peace or sleep, sigh.