New year's reso is to have healthy balanced meals for the family. especially now Joel is going to school, i need to make sure he has a good lunch box and breakfast. So i am adjusting that alarm clock 15 minutes earlier to make that extra effort for breakfast and myself in the morning. I have been successful in making balanced breakie for them since Sat.
Started with blueberry pancakes but Joel don't fancy pancakes, he only picked on the fruits. Didi just slurp on maple syrup..
Sunday i made simple ham and cheese sandwiches. But i sneaked in some finely chopped carrots and double cheese for Joel. he needs his calcium. he likes sandwiches much better.
This morning i made tuna sandwiches with tomatoes and a slice of cheese again. he finised half of it. Pretty good start since we never made any breakfast for the kids and it is just rush and go. But he won't have breakfast when he is at school unlike daycares where they served them breakfast, lunch and tea. So it is really up to me to make sure my boys have the best.
We went for Pi Pi catching on Sat. bad choice as it was not a good weather, there were no pi pi cause we arrived pretty late in the arvo and we had our car broken into while having dinner. not pleasant for the boys seeing glass everywhere and the ipad stolen. Lesson learnt for all of us. Not much of the pain in losing an expensive item but the hassle and literally the pain in sitting on pieces of glass. I vacummed countless times and still i can feel there are bits and pieces poking me somewhere.
Sunday, i woke up early and started my jam making. i process 3 huge extremely unfriendly pineapples the night before. the torns were poking me endlessly and it was hard work getting the flesh out. no wonder people pay more for pineapple tarts. They are hard work.
i cooked the jam in the morning, blend the pineapples and sieve the juice out to save on cooking time. Finished within an hour and let it cool. Still mushy but i will cooked it again next week before i start baking. packed it all in the fridge to let it dry out more. had a taste and it was yummy :) Just received the almond cookie recipe from MIL and can't wait to try that out. that will be our CNY treats.
after that attended a bday party, kids had so much fun and as usual didn't want to leave. we left in the evening and had our few pieces of caught pipi from the day before as dinner. Boys had rice and tofu with minced pork. Joel love pi pi and had a full bowl of pipi himself.
That's our weekend and more busy weekends to come.
Luckily Aunty Sandra brought a whole box of munchies for the hungry kids :)
Boys just busy eating. Not putting any effort to dig for pipis. It was starting to rain and we took the kids to shower and waited for the men to come back from pipi digging. luckily the manage to catch a small bucket of pipi.
the kids played in a little puddle of sea water. jumping, laughing and being kids.it is amazing that they have no worries at all. my head was thinking about how to clean the sand out of them, get them all to shower in a toilet shared by everyone at the beach.. :)
Joel preparing for bday party. taking along his glow sticks and playing it in the bright afternoon. that's my silly son :)
generous yummy food and good company. what can we ask more for a better way to spend the day.It was a good weekend despite the unfortunate break in. The kids had a good time and so did we just catching up with old friends. can't wait to continue my baking :)
missing our family back home and hope they are all doing superb!
2 comments:
Oh my gosh! That is horrible someone would do that to you! I hope your insurance will pay for the damage and replace your ipad! :(
insurance doesn't cover the ipad :) but at least the window is covered ..pheww..
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