my papa

i have not taken a very beautiful picture of him. and her :).

Credit: paper from BohenianArt; elements from akizo designs, Mimilou designs, MichelleColeman, Michelle Buss (MickeybDesigns) and Eve Recinella

A happy (belated) Father's Day.

outing with grandma

cherish this moment. cherish life.

credits: Angelica, MaryAnn, and kimladesigns

wish Angelica a great summer and many more summers to have.
wish Charmaine fights with lots of love and blessings.

sick child's meal

hy continues her quarantine at home. I asked her this morning, "do you want noodle with soap or porridge?"

she replied, "i want rice water(mean 粥水)." i think she liked her porridge yesterday which mainly big bowl of water with little plain rice & brasmati rice.

i added minced meat and wolfberries for today's meal, and lesser water.

this is sick child's mum's lunch. eat what she left and topped up with 1 avocado. lazy mum!

and 3D puzzle rescued our boring quarantine. thanks to mama Evelyn again.

有一天 Someday

I found this book from Mama Evelyn, through her Book Giveaway!

it was in April. I waited, and waited the opportunity to collect the book from her. FTWM, without family support, alone in Singapore is pretty chaotic, fyi.

early May, SC flew off to Taipei for his training and surprisingly bought back theChinese version of the book! I never mention to him about the book. (English book was only collected 2 weeks back.)

I held my tears in my eyes when i first read the Chinese book to hy. she asked a lot of 'why?' especially the last 5 pages of bittersweet of the future of the child: "Someday you will feel a small weight against your strong back."

she could not picture: "Someday I will watch you brushing your child's hair."

but she jolly sees and reads about herself and me in the book as mother and daughter from 1st page: "One day I counted your fingers and kissed each one."

until "Then, you were my baby, and now you are my child."

i particularly like this line: "Sometimes, when you sleep, I watch you dream, and I dream too..."

i began my reading as a mother, to my daughter.

but i then realise i am the daughter who miss my mother badly when i read towards the end of the book.

i will, for sure, miss hy when "Someday I will stand on this porch and watch your arms waving to me until I no longer see you."

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we are now reading both books every night! and learn 曾經，你是我的小寶寶;现在, 你是我的大寶貝。

Thanks Evelyn!

read mama, read!

"It takes very few words to tell the story of Rosie's peaceful walk home but the pictures tell a very different story... This absolute classic is a visual masterpiece and one of the best books we know for allowing young children to participate in storytelling," by redhouse.co.uk. we are reading Rosie's Walk, by Pat Hutchins. a simple reading to learn about prepositions.

the fact is, we are getting books with lesser and lesser words... lazy parents, we are! at the moment.

bed time story has become a ritual for us...

chinese version: here.

steamcake

this is the only cake i know how to make. and so i get hy involved.

the ingredients are just eggs, plain flour and sugar, each placed in 1 rice bowl (as showed in scrapbook below).
note to take after 1st attempt: sugar to be lesser than flour.

beat the eggs with sugar untill frothy. gradually add the flour to the egg mixture, stirring. mix thoroughly, but do not beat.

i add a little milo (thick milo, just mix with little water) to create a little pattern on the cake.

boil the water in the wok first, then turn down to medium. steam the cake, covered, for 20 - 25 minutes or until a chopstick comes out clean.

credit: krizo scrap

jelly day

It was hot weather and i decided to make our day a wobbly one~

she had fun on this:) easy peasy stirring and pouring. and shaping.

QP from RuthMelody

I have been mingled in my tiny kitchen more than before. So is little Hy. It was started from my mum's stay in early April. By showing me one recipe after another, she then reminded me on our old days when i was so reluctant to help her and learn from her.

Life is ironic. I am doing things that i thought i will never like.

Probably hy is the force.

My Mother's Day

my another Mother's Day. (previous post is here)

Well, on record, she did her very first card for me. Thanks to the 'force' of school, i guess. When i told her is 'Mother's Day' this Sunday! she asked me, when (is) Father's Day?

Anyway, We went to a drama workshop this morning(thanks to Hann's mummy kind sharing). Hy went in the workshop without me, but Caitlin. Two little cuties hold hand in hand and walked into the classroom without mamas. whilst, mama Ade and I joined in a storytelling workshop which all parents got to know a lot more about wonderful storytelling to children. One particular book which being highly recommended is Hey, Listen to This, by Jim Trelease. It gives a list of related books to young children & suggestion for reading to engage children into story (i just realised that there are 48 stories in there!).

List of books recommended:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr.
Baa Baa Black Sheep, by Iza Trapani
Rosie's walk, by Pat Hutchins.
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack, by Lynley Dodd.
Daisy All-sorts, by Pamela Allen
Five Minutes Peace, by Jill Murphy
The Kitchen God, by Adeline Foo (Local)
and others simple charming rhyming stories to hook young children in books.

We shall look forward for a free storytelling session from Storytelling Association, as what the speaker shared today.

After the workshop, on our way to Paragon for lunch, both the kids were trying to express themselves to tell mamas story and showed interests to come back for Uncle Max (the teacher) another drama class... i am studying the possibility now...

credits: DesignerDigitals, Feifei's Stuff, sevdesigns.net

We snapped our selves in front of the mirror after we cut our hairs together in end March. another simple thing in life to enjoy.

Oh ya, thanks to papa for helping me wash dishes tonight and allow me to blog this:).

pancake, anyone?

if Mamabliss is into messy fun now, i am bringing hy into the fun of kitchen *grin*.

oh yes, she is very keen into it. bring the stool to stand up high to reach the stove/table top for fun. asks thousand and one innocent questions to program her mind. think thousand and one way to test 'what if i am not listening to mama..?'.

this was her trying to 'shape' her pancake on wok. her hand then accidentally touched the edge of the hot wok and cried out loud. very loud. she then lost interest, totally. even not keen in eating.

it was not a serious burn. it was a good Sunday morning for us to enjoy simple things in life.

(thank goodness she is eating pancake today~.)
QP from Weeds and Wildflowers Design. Go grab it while its expired soon!

dough fun

we had a dumpling workshop on 18 Apr. conducted by my one and only Nepalese colleague (she is amazingly good!). the main motivation was... hy loves dumplings! all kind of dumplings. so i called. just a few of them, just enough to fit into my humble apartment and pot-lucked our dinner, besides dumplings.

two weeks after that, i have yet to test my skill!

too many things, yet too little time, i would said.

credits: Alana McCarthy, palvinka design and JessGordon.