I got lots of work done this afternoon while my little cherubs played outside together.  You can see all of our garden from the kitchen and dining room in our house, so I sat at the dining room table with the lap top and got lots of things done, including sorting a private swimming lesson for the kids next week that I can assist in (they can both swim but mainstream swimming lessons were becoming a real headache with teachers who don't understand special needs and would complain about their 'lack of concentration' and 'fidgety behaviour'. Probably my fault for having them in mainstream lessons but pre-diagnosis I didn't know there was any other option). 

Anyway, I digress.... 

I popped out to the garden to see them and found they had built this fabulous den - 

I love that we have a 'rough area' in the garden - where they can dig, build and create. So many happy hours are spent out there.  They probably spend much more time there than they do in any of the 'pretty' parts of the garden!

After all that building there was just enough time to bake some home made cookies before dinner - we were a bit short of ingredients so we just made up our own recipe! DS added Smarties to his half of the batch and DD (who is allergic to the colourings in Smarties - they make her super-hyper and quite nasty) added chopped up dark chocolate to her half.   

If you fancy making some we mixed 

4oz butter with 4oz brown sugar, 
added a generous tablespoon of honey, 
then mixed in 3oz of self raising flour.  
We then split the mixture in to 2 bowls,
added 1 tube of Smarties and another 3oz of self raising flour to one bowl
and a good handful of chocolate chunks/chips and 3oz self raising flour to the other.  
The kids then used their hands to form a ball of dough, which they then split in to 6-7 balls (I suspect there was quite alot of 'mixture eating' being done by DD as she seems to have produced 6 small cookies to DS's 7 large ones!)

Anyway, back to the recipe - 

place the balls on to a greased baking tray - don't flatten them, leave as balls.  
Into the oven at 180 C for 15 mins or until the look cooked basically :-)

Cool a little, eat and enjoy :-)  See you tomorrow xx