It's the simple pleasures in life that are what make life worth living and for me there are so many wonderfully simple things that make my heart sing.
Fresh bed sheets, a beautiful vase of freshly cut flowers, a morning stretch, a hot cup of tea, a pretty plate of *ahem* fairy bread.
Fairy bread. There I said it out loud.
But, before you judge me... {as I have heard it all before}. Just take a peek at this plate of sprinkled bread yumminess.
I bet your smiling right now.
It's pretty, right?
It's something that you take for granted and never give a second thought until someone presents a plate of it to you, and then instantly you are transformed back to your own sugar filled childhood memories.
My inner child would eat fairy bread every single day. However, I try to limit myself to the kids birthday parties {bless aging four year olds} and it's fair to say I don't hold back when I spy a plate of the stuff.
In fact, I have been known to over indulge and be left with a pretty serious sugar hangover. Light headedness, blurred vision, belly ache kind of stuff. So you think I would have learnt to stay away from the stuff. To leave it for the kids only.
Wrong.
In fact, at our last kids party its fair to say that I lost myself when I spotted it on the party table. Breastfeeding is the root of all evil food indulgences. In a flash, I had handed the baby to the husband, grabbed myself a fairy princess plate and was making my very own fairy bread eiffel tower.
Little did I know I was being watched by the birthday hostess. She made her way towards me, smiled and said:
"The kids just love the stuff, don't they?"
Busted.
"Ah, yup, they sure do." I replied. And then I hightailed out of there making a swift exit whilst calling:
"Noooo-aaahhhh, Noooo-ahhhh. I got you your treats."
He was outside wrestling the other kids so I found myself a quiet little corner {away from parental eyes} and scoffed down my pretty little tower.
And I was enjoying the simple things. I figured I'd deal with sugar high later.
Love Jo x
What's your party food favourite? What food takes you back to your childhood? What's your simple pleasure?
