I must confess that I get upset about abandoning our vegetable garden, dogs and chickens before going on holidays. This is seriously apparent in the busy lead up to spring. Sure my vegetable garden is all mulched and can survive a week without being watered. But it certainly won’t thrive through spring and summer after a week of neglect. Despite the false hope and welcoming surprise it gave me when we arrived home.

Shore Team

We all went to Audi Hamilton Island Race Week with Mark, since Lara and Olivia would go in to meltdown if they didn’t see their Daddy for ten days. We scored a very budget friendly holiday by staying in the crew house, and I got to know some great people. 

Unfortunately our impeding holiday meant that I held off from planting vegetable seeds, and the vegetable garden got neglected for a whole week. Actually longer than a week since there was the preparation in the lead up to holidaying and flying with two small children.

Then there were the days spent recovering after flying home with two children under the age of three all by myself. I apologies to everyone that was on that flight with me. My children aren’t always that badly behaved. They are often that loud though.

Garden Meals, Pick All You Can Eat

The best part of coming home after the holidays was being out in the vegetable garden with my four babies. Having enough fresh broccolini for us all to enjoy a good old raw snack out in the sunshine. It was also fun for Lara and Olivia to inspect the brussel sprouts thriving with all the rain Sydney got whilst we were away.

They also munched away on some fresh snow peas. Thanks to the vegetable garden, afternoon tea for our first day home was easy and fun. You have to love it when nature works in your favour. That said, I need to put in a lot of ground work in the vegetable garden this weekend if we are going to be eating from it during spring and summer. A serious game of catch up is required.

Since I’m feeling guilty about the state of the vegetable garden I’m going to leave this photo of Lara and I having quality mummy daughter time here. This one day with my family was worth having an under-productive vegetable garden. I need to remember that.

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