Foggy November days at home | apartment cleaning, baking, and cozy tea time

[@dawnwasshoward]

What a beautiful video! So many wonderful memories made. Like you and your beautiful wife I would read books with my son, we would bake cakes together and we played board and card games. We still play scrabble together, but now he wins! I think cooking together is so important, children learn that so many recipes are easy to make and they eat good food. GOD BLESS your lovely family.

[@alexhometown]

Thank you! This sounds wonderful! I so want our family time to strengthen our relationships with our children. I dream that many years later we can also have fun together. God bless you!

[@junesawyet4539]

Aww lovely video. So nice to see little mark helping his mum . Emily is such a lovely calm little girl . Beautiful children ❤️ x

[@alexhometown]

Thank you! Of course, they can be very active, like all children.😄 But they really are our great helpers!

[@dawnwasshoward]

We also lived near two parks and spent a lot of time in both and often when my son and I meet up we enjoy going for walks in the park.

[@alexhometown]

It's great when there is a park near your house. You can always take your mind off the bustle of the city.

[@dawnwasshoward]

@@alexhometown There are two parks near where I live now. One is five minutes walk the other about twenty minutes, to get there I walk past a small river where I often see ducks. There is also a lot of fish, one day I counted over 40 fish. I'm very blessed.

[@trudysenglishvictorianhome3244]

Aww watching Mark help Catherine bake was SO precious!!! His excitement to have some Apple 🍎🍏 Pie!!! 🤗. That's amazing that he enjoys watching Cooking Shows at his age!! Someday, he will be quite the Cook and Baker!! 🙌. And little Emily, what a cutie!! Watching her clean with you! So precious!! 🤗. Hope you have a lovely weekend!

[@alexhometown]

Thanks Trudy! 😊 Surprisingly, Mark is very keen to help with the cooking. We don’t show Mark and Emily cartoons, so they watch cooking, travel shows or KZbin channels. 😄 Mark’s favorite episodes of the Jamie Oliver show are Christmas ones. I think he’s watched them a hundred times already😄And the love of cleanliness, in my opinion, the children inherited from my mother. As a child, I did not like to clean up the house, unlike my children. I wish you a wonderful Sunday!

[@trudysenglishvictorianhome3244]

What a brilliant idea of not allowing your kids to watch Cartoons!! You and Catherine are such good parents! Teaching them responsibilities at a young age! Truly inspiring! 🙌

[@alexhometown]

Thank you very much! 😊We just thought it was better to let them watch something closer to life on TV. By the way, the videos that Mark considers relaxing are snow removal in Canada😄Apparently, in addition to the love of home cozy, we are also united by a huge amount of snow in winter in our countries.

[@trudysenglishvictorianhome3244]

Awww that's so cute!!! 🤗 I was just telling my Husband of how you and Catherine encourage your Kids to watch Baking Shows on TV. He too was SO impressed! 😃 He said Mark is probably a better Baker than him 😂🤣👨‍🍳

[@alexhometown]

😄Believe me, Mark cooks and bakes exactly better than me. Every time I check with Catherine every action I do at the stove😄

[@martinemichot4846]

What a new nice video ! Emily is so cute cleaning the screen of the TV! And Mark also obviusly! Cutting the apples without to forget to eat a little pièce!😂I cook the same recipe as Catherine but from time to time I add a banana! Love from Nice always sunny! But days are shorter … the Sun wakes up at 6.45 and the du set at 5.00 pm. But it’s not a problem as I like so much thé cosy evenings ( as you do!😉)

[@alexhometown]

Thank you! I understand Mark, it's always hard to resist eating a few bites while cooking.😄 We've never tried adding banana, I think it's worth a try! In Nice everything is as sunny as always! We have only seen the sun a couple of times since the beginning of November. Today we have rain and snow and 0 degrees. Every morning the children feel like we wake up at night 😄Sunrise today was at 9 am, and sunset yesterday was at 4:30 pm. I wish you a good week!😊

[@martinemichot4846]

@@alexhometown Thank you ! You too !

[@alexhometown]

Thanks 😊

[@laurajurek4065]

Thats nice ,staying home just relaxing ,I always say tge days I'm inside I always find something to keep me busy so I really don't mind it

[@alexhometown]

I really love walking and traveling, but home is always better

[@laurajurek4065]

@@alexhometown yes it's good to find your little spots that you like to go to,but at the end of the day you wanna go home 🏡

[@lauragiordano3138]

È davvero molto bello condividere le cose con i bambini, li fa sentire utili e servirà per il futuro. Hai ragione, basta un odore o sapore a riportarmi all'infanzia, ricordo ancora il profumi dell' arrosto di mia nonna ed è passato moltissimo tempo. Siete belle persone e bellissima famiglia. A presto.

[@alexhometown]

Grazie per aver condiviso la tua storia Questo ci ispira a dare ai bambini più di questi momenti accoglienti. Buona giornata!

[@ThisCorneroftheKingdom]

Yum. Recipe please!

[@alexhometown]

😊Ingredients: - Sugar: 1/2 cup - Flour: 1 cup - Eggs: 4 - Baking powder: 1/2 tsp - Apples: 2 - Butter: for greasing the baking pan 1. Mix sugar with eggs using a mixer, add flour and baking powder. Mix thoroughly until the sugar is dissolved. 2. Peel and slice the apples. Add the apples to the batter and mix. 3. Grease the baking pan with butter. Pour the batter with apples into the pan. 4. Preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees Celsius. Bake until done (30-40 minutes).

[@dawnwasshoward]

@@alexhometownYou could also add cinnamon.

[@alexhometown]

Right! Thank you for noticing

[@andreaschultz-bolting942]

Hallo, ich weiß es ist noch Herbst,aber irgendwie war mir Heute danach es weihnachtlich zu gestalten. Die Zeit geht soo schnell vorbei, aber es ist bei Euch so gemütlich. Wollt ihr mich nicht adoptieren😂Sag mal sind Eire Kinder immer so artig, oder gibts auch mal Geschrei? Vielen Dank für das schöne Video. Ganz liebe Grüsse❤

[@alexhometown]

Hallo! 😊Ich verstehe Sie perfekt! Auch wir kommen immer mehr in Weihnachtsstimmung. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, mit der Dekoration meiner Wohnung zu beginnen. Übrigens sind unsere Kinder die gewöhnlichsten. 😄Wir haben einfach Glück, dass es Tage gibt, an denen sie sich ruhig verhalten.😄 Im Moment lieben sie es, Hausarbeiten zu erledigen. Ich hoffe, dass es mit der Zeit anhält. Ich wünsche Ihnen ein schönes Wochenende!😊

[@andreaschultz-bolting942]

@@alexhometown Das wünsche ich Euch auch🙋🏽