FollowEveryday, I have to embrace a myriad of issues pertaining to my 3 girls, aged almost 5 years old, 8 years old and an almost 10 years old tween. Everyday I grapple with old problems and on some days, I get ‘interesting’ issues which really stir my mind on how to deal with them effectively…
All posts in February 2013
A Day Out At Ikea And I Think We Ate Horse Meat!!
Homecooked Dinner – 23 Feb 2013
Presenting 6 of our 7-course homecooked dinner that we had at home 2 evenings ago. 1) Gado-gado– composed of fried tofu bought from the Japanese food section at Isetan, blanched cabbage, long beans and special homemade Gado-gado sauce. 2) Steamed egg with minced meat 3) Stuffed dried oysters with minced meat, fish meat and watercress. …
Foodie Baby
That’s how my foodie baby eats her porridge — by cracking up a CNY Bee Hives biscuit and scattering them onto her porridge, just like how it’s done at Chinese restaurants that serve porridge for dim sum! Of the 3 girls, Cass is the most appreciative of food and can eat like a horse without…
Hi-Tech Gadgets-Savvy Family
I am sure most families in this high tech era are technologically driven with almost every member in the household owning either a desktop computer, laptop, iPad and a gadget from either the Apple or Samsung family. My family is no different. We have the whole range of the gadgets that I mentioned earlier. During…
End Of CNY Holidays
Our 2013 Valentines Day
First Day Of Our Year Of Sssssssssnake
We had our reunion dinner at the hubs’ uncle’s house yesterday. Everyone was hissing with laughter, tossing yee sang and feasting on lots of rich CNY dishes from chicken (organic chicken) to pomfret fish, loads of pork dishes, braised mushrooms with sea cucumber, duck, gigantic prawns, several veggie dishes, soup and an array of CNY…
Last Day Of School Before CNY
Little Miss Social Butterfly donning on her cheongsam (from my online store) for a cheongsam parade in school today. In addition, she also took part in a lantern-making contest last week. Today, she will be going up the stage to receive her ang pow as a reward to the lantern-making participants. She can’t wait and…
Answering Back Rudely
Creamy, Nutty, Fruity Sandwich
Here is my creamy, nutty and fruity sandwich on 100% wholewheat Massimo bread. I’ll bet no one could guess what the fillings are for the bread eh? Wholewheat bread with light cream cheese spread, homemade marmalade jam and young grated coconut — so wholesome, full of fibre and lip smacking. I still prefer bread for…
Kobe Beef Lunch – Sunday, 3 Feb 2013
Here’s our homecooked lunch today, which is the first meal that the mil whipped up for us since her return from Hong Kong yesterday. 1) Kobe beef #5, flown from Japan to Hong Kong, which the mil brought back from Hong Kong yesterday 2) Super sweet and juicy cherries which the mil brought back from…
How Are Shark Babies Born?
Rascal #2 was doing her Science in Mandarin homework (Standard 2) today and she came to a tricky question. The question asks which animals give birth to babies the way a human is being birthed, i.e. without being hatched from an egg. I could help her on most of the animals until I saw the…