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Banana Pudding Lasagna 🍌🍰
I loved this recipe! I made this for a breakfast with several guests and my family, and everyone loved it.
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups crushed Nilla Wafers
4 tablespoons melted butter
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
¾ cup granulated sugar
2 cups heavy cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 large bananas, sliced
1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding
1 ½ cups milk
1 ½ cups Nilla Wafers
Whipped cream or cool whip, for topping
Directions:
In a small bowl, combine the crushed wafers and melted butter. Stir until well combined. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the mixture for topping.
Press the remaining crumbs evenly into the bottom of a 9×13 inch baking dish.
In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar together until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
In a separate bowl, beat the heavy cream until stiff peaks form. Stir in the vanilla, and then fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture.
Spread half of the cream cheese mixture evenly over the crust. Press the sliced bananas over the cream cheese.
In a separate bowl, beat the milk and pudding mix together. Spread the pudding over the bananas, and then top with Nilla Wafers.
Spread the remaining cream cheese mixture over the wafers.
Sprinkle the reserved crumbs over the cream cheese layer.
Cover, and refrigerate lasagna for 2 hours (or up to 24 hours) before serving.

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Yessssss - I think this should also include those who don’t understand the parents struggles too. ❤️❤️

12/16/2022

12/15/2022

"It was 4am.
I fed the baby, changed him, then spent an hour resettling him.
I got back to bed at 5.30am.
Getting back to sleep didn’t happen.
My husband was getting ready for work.
My toddler woke.
I fed her breakfast, changed her, and spent half an hour settling a tantrum.
Then I unloaded the dishwasher, made the beds and put a load of washing on.
I started reading her a book.
The baby woke.
I stopped reading, had to diffuse a tantrum while feeding the baby and forgot about eating my breakfast.
I fed him for nearly an hour.
I parented my toddler from afar while her emotions crashed into me.
I felt the brunt of them, but managed to regulate mine, somehow.
My baby fell asleep feeding, so I tried to put him in his cot.
My toddler followed me.
I closed the door, leaving her on the other side.
She made her presence known anyway.
That woke him.
We repeated the cycle in the baby’s bedroom.
“We” managed to get him down this time.
I carried my toddler to the living room, begging her to stay quiet.
I offered her morning tea.
She didn’t like what I made.
I read her 3 books.
She finally fell asleep.
It was noon.
I hung out the washing, got meat out for dinner, called my husband about something which seemed important.
And the baby woke.
And he was fussy.
So we paced the hallway. Over and over.
Then my toddler woke.
I tended to them both. Her at my knees demanding and him at my hip crying.
I fed them both somehow.
I then took them outside.
We sat under a tree.
We watched the leaves.
I explained the colours.
This is all that worked.
And I’d tried everything.
My husband came home.
Somehow it was 5pm.
How was it that late?
I cooked dinner.
He bathed them.
We ate dinner.
We consumed tears.
The baby fell asleep.
My husband attempted the toddler’s bedtime.
I dealt with the mess of the day.
The baby woke again.
It was 9pm.
I fed and resettled him.
Finally they were both asleep.
It was 10.30pm.
I still hadn’t showered.
Or hung the washing out.
Or eaten enough.
Or lots of things actually.
But I made it.
For the next few hours at least.
Maybe til tomorrow.
And tomorrow I’ll try again.
Because that’s what mothers do."
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📖From my “Dear Motherhood” book - my early poetry books are linked here https://www.hangingwiththeheaphys.co.nz/emmaheaphypoetryseries
Words of Emma Heaphy
Art: Joolsannie Art

Words of Emma Heaphy

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