The most important job that any parent has is to keep their children safe and healthy. Sometimes, however, this can be a daunting task, especially because you can often receive information that is contradictory or confusing. The truth is, though, most of the advice that you get about taking care of your children can be…
Author: Shireen
3 Ways to Beat Your Cravings for Junk and Fast Food Through the New Year
Everyone seems to make similar resolutions when it comes the things they hope to accomplish in the New Year. From weight loss, to eating better, to beating sugar cravings and ditching junk food—there are hundreds of avenues you could go with your health resolutions. But how do you maintain those promises to yourself throughout the…
Macaroni And Cheese With Grilled Chicken Drummets
Wednesday evenings are hectic for me. After prepping dinner, I rush off to fetch Drama Queen from school. She only has about 15-20 minutes to eat her dinner before I send her to the tuition center. Her BM tuition class starts at 7:30 p.m. So I always plan a quickie home-cooked dinner for Wednesdays. And…
My Monday, 6 February 2018
After a riding out a very challenging year last year, I only realized recently that I have not had a foot spa and pedicure for 17 frigging months! I was just too preoccupied with my health issues last year and didn’t have the mood for a foot spa or pedicure. I just wanted to get…
Home-made Meat Patties / Burger
Since it was a public holiday yesterday, I decided to embark on a little project that’s been long sitting in my bucket list ~ making burgers. The girls LOVE burgers ~ Burger King and Mac Donalds especially but this is an occasional holiday food. We only eat burgers when we travel back to Ipoh by…
Monday Dinner – 29 Jan 2018
Malaysia’s ‘summer’ is slowly rearing its ugly head. This also means that Chinese New Year is coming soon. Though it’s been raining almost daily, the weather has been really hot and stuffy. Even when it’s pouring hard, it’s still not cooling but humid. Today I showered 5 times (washed my hair 3 times!). When I’m…
The Tooth Fairy
Cass shed her molar tooth early this week. When the tooth finally dropped after days of causing her extreme discomfort, Cass was pleased as punch. She was relieved that the tooth no longer obstructed her mouth movements and she was also looking forward to the ‘tooth fairy’ coming to give her a dollar under her…
Home Cooked Dinners (22 ~ 24 January 2018)
Hello everyone! Sorry for the lack of update in my blogs. I’ve been busier than in previous years ever since Drama Queen started attending high school this year. I have extra school runs and tuition runs to do (from morning through night) and an extra chore job of cooking dinner (and sometimes lunch) as the mil…
Baked Cheese Fried Rice
I have about 10 minutes for this post before I make a dash to the kitchen to dish out yet another quickie dinner in under an hour before the final school run of the day. Every evening is a mad rush in the kitchen and then to school. Traffic is horrendous whenever it rains. Yesterday…
Grilled Chicken In Lemon Garlic Butter Pumpkin Sauce
Hello to my new favorite grilled chicken in lemony, garlicky, buttery and pumpkin sauce! This recipe is not what I intended to prep in the first place. I had wanted to prep a lemon garlic and butter sauce for my grilled chicken but I didn’t have any chicken stock with me, thus I used my…
My Thursday ~ 11 Jan 2018
It’s been a cold and wet day the whole of today. After 1.5 days of torturous chills, backache and fever, my high fever finally broke last night. The downside of being a WFHM (or SAHM for that matter) is that work has to CONTINUE whether or not you are fit or ill. Donning on a…
First Sunday In 2018 (7 January 2018)
After church, I took Uber with the girls to Pavillion to meet the hubs. Our lunch on the first Sunday of this year was at Din Tai Fung, the hubs’ favorite Taiwanese restaurant of all times. In an article published on January 17, 1993, the New York Times rated Din Tai Fung as one of…
First Day Of School – 2 Jan 2018
For the first time, Cass was a tad reluctant to go back to school after her 5-week break. She lamented that homework is what stresses her out the most and she hates lining up for assembly in the hall every Monday. I know her other reason is the fact that she’s now in senior primary…
Christmas (25 December 2017)
Happy new year to all my blog readers! Sorry for the lack of update. I’ve been pretty busy since I got back from Singapore two weeks ago. With my parents here in KL to celebrate the year end festivities and the hubs’ birthday with us, we have been out of the house everyday. I’ve gorged…
Girls Meet New Twin Cousins
Our girls finally met their new twin cousins on 21 December 2017. They were beaming with joy. So was I. I have been yearning to cuddle my new niece and nephew since day 1 they were born prematurely at 32 weeks on 1 Sept 2017. The girls could not resist cuddling and stroking the babies,…
Singapore Trip – Day 2 (22 Dec 2017)
Today is big brother Raymond’s birthday. We started off our day with breakfast at a nearby market. Food was really not up to we Malaysians’ taste buds. We ordered wanton noodles, prawn noodles, fish ball noodles, economy noodles, coffee and milk tea. Nothing met our expectations, though the queue at most of the stalls were…

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