Happy Whimsical Hearts

Postcard Pen Pals

Master D has always enjoyed checking the mail. As soon as he hears the postie he yells out ‘mail!’ and out we run to see what has arrived.

But now that he has 2 pen pals – Hazel (who’s mom blogs at Crafty Moms Share) and The Goblin (who’s mum blogs at Taming the Goblin) – he loves checking the mail!

Just recently he received this wonderful postcard of a double decker bus from The Goblin. Everyone who has visited since has been shown ‘his bus’ 🙂

And soon afterwards he was very excited to receive a parcel from Hazel. With a lovely postcard and a fun elf made by Hazel. As soon as he saw it he told me he loved it’s hat!

And before I had hit ‘publish’ on this post another parcel arrived, with this fantastic dragon made by Hazel’s mom (we exchanged Christmas presents for the kids). Master D thinks it is wonderful!

I love that he has pen pals too. Each time we send them mail, or receive it, he gets out our globe and wants to see where they live and talk about the world.

So if your kids would love a pen pal… shoot me an email to happywhimsicalhearts@iinet.net.au letting me know which part of the world you live in and their age and I will try to pair them up 🙂

Happy postcard writing, Kelly

January 20, 2012 by Kelly

Happy lil ❤’s are baking #3

What did you bake with your little ones this week? Or, if you don’t have anything new we’d love to see something from your archives 😉

Below is a linky list to join in the fun and start sharing what you bake with your children so we can inspire each other. Family favourites, new recipes, traditional or cultural recipes – you name it, we’d like to read about them and if you include the details, try them out 🙂

This week Master D and I baked Chocolate Chilli biscuits. They were inspired by a recipe in Sweet Alternative (which Hinterland Mama blogged about). We adapted the recipe to ingredients we had on hand.

We used:

2 cups flour
250 g butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp bicarb
1/2 cup cocoa
shake of nutmeg
shake of cinnamon
pinch of salt
1 egg
200 g chocolate melts
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp vanilla essence

Cream butter and sugar, add egg.
Add remaining ingredients, with the chocolate lucky last and mix until it is a good dough.
Roll into balls and then squish them with a fork.
Bake at 180°C (around 350°F) for around 10 minutes.

Master D likes to line up our ingredients

I find the more opportunities I give Master D, the more he surprises me with how capable he is. He cracked the egg and there was no shell to pick out! With my help he weighed the ingredients before pouring them in 🙂 And he loves turning on our mixer!