Dinner disaster

So I got a slow cooker the other day. It's going to change my life. I made soup twice and a lovely stew on Sunday. Today I followed the recipe (from the recipe book that came with it) for Hawaiian   pork. All seemed fine. It looked nice served with rice. But it tasted totally foul. I blame the pineapple. I know sometimes you'll have something that's just ok, not delicious but this was disgusting. Completely inedible.
E8 worth of pork in the bin. Ian went and got chips.

Our ladies hospital

Rosa had an appointment with the cardiac surgeon today. Rosa was born with a congenital heart defect and has had 2 heart surgeries. She met Dr McMahon 6 months ago and had some tests and he gave her the all clear and said she would probably only need annual check-ups. So today I thought it would be routine but during her Echo Cardiogram test he noticed some leakage in two places in her heart. It's probably nothing but needs to be monitored a bit more closely. She had another ECG and a blood test, didn't like either very much especially the blood test. Who like getting stuck with a needle.
The children's hospital is a very surreal place to be in.  You're worried about your own child until you see another poor little one being pushed by on a trolley hooked up to loads of machines with mammy and daddy bringing up the rear trying to hide their terror. I  hope that Rosa doesn't need any more surgery. I don't want her to have to go through that, or me either.

My family

 

This is one of my favourite family photos. It was taken in Moscow the day before we came home to Ireland with Rosa. I love the way Rosa looks to relaxed and at home with us. We had, had her with us in Russia for about 2 weeks full time before this and she settled in so easily.

This is my second attempt at starting a blog. I haven't written on the other one for nearly 2 years. Hopefully I'll be more faithful this time.