Ouch! I hurt his finger!

Terrible day last Friday. My lil' boi woke up early at 6am telling me he wanted to help me with the housework and told me he will do so every morning so that we can finished all the work faster. Oh what a good boy I have here, I told myself. Indeed we got a lot of things done and since it was still early, I decided to bake some muffins for breakfast!

As usual, he wants to help..We were almost done with the mixer..when suddenly i heard him scream. He has poked his finger in between the mixing bowl and the mixer holder. Aiyo..i nearly pengsan. Checked on his finger and it was bleeding a bit..(Yes...i feel terribly guilty already, so Zach's Godma, please don't scold me!) "Fixed" him up and he stopped crying but continued to grumble for another 30 minutes...

Well, he is much better now and I have got enough scolding for that..

An expensive lesson learnt...but this is a much more important lesson i learnt from him.. That night while tucking him to sleep, i told him i am sorry i hurt his finger and this was his reply "Mummy, you hurt my finger, nevermind, I still love you. It is okay.."

Wah...hearing it from a 4 year old, so forgiving, I sure have a lot more things to learn from him!

Boyzone - Everyday I Love You

Love their songs...! Reminds me so much of Year 2001 ... ;) ..Wah.. i miss KL and my friends!!

Mom is back!

Oh..how glad i am that my mom is back. Did the 'handover' of the kitchen to her last Friday!!! But my new position now in the house is 'kakak' becos *sob* *sob*, the helper didn't come back after her two weeks' vacation. So gone are the days where i can relax and sip coffee after dinner (i know you must be laughing joyce!!). Anyway, we will wait for another week or so.. in case she decides to come back...else i will now have 3 jobs in a day, as how Zach puts it.

My new schedule remains but now with additional tasks... sweeping and mopping the floor, watering the plants, cleaning the toilets... wah.. i am glad i work 8 hours in the office!

Thus to release tension, i indulged myself into baking. More bread this time round... you name it, you get it ... mom wanted high fibre bread...zach, the usual sausage, hubby, doesn't matter. So i put all the ingredients for the bread into the bread machine and select the dough mode. Spent the whole hour to come up with the HFiber bread, cheese sticks, sausage and buttermilk buns! The whole house smells amazing during the baking!!! hahaha... And me, dead tired... after all the cleanup!

I want peanut butter!

Didn't know what should i give them for breakfast the next day...so i told myself...let them have bread!!! I was too lazy to bake anything so i just grabbed a loaf of bread from the supermarket counter.... and while in the car, i told Zach, we will have bread tomorrow...and he commented "with peanut butter?" Argh..forgot about that. The last time we had bread, he was already asking for it, but i told him strawberry jam is equally as nice as peanut butter!!!

So we went to the nearby bakery shop...but it was already closed, tried the petrol kiosk mart, "no peanut butter". Went round a bit...OMG, all the sundry shops are closed and it is only 9:15pm!!! Told him, don't worry, i will make sure there is peanut butter for your bread tomorrow! And his reply was "I will never give up"!!!

Hm...suddenly remembered that i have this peanut butter recipe somewhere. It was a recipe that came together with the Mistral Processor i bought a while back because i was impressed on how they demo on making "ice blended mango", "ice blended coffee", "hot barley", "ice cream", "soya bean milk"...and of course "peanut butter". Digged out the recipe book, and was happy that i have all the ingredients.

Toasted the peanut, mix all the ingredients together, chopped them...and YES...I do have peanut butter for his bread tomorrow .... :)

Got time for a hike?

Another week has passed since i took over the kitchen.....and i am still surviving! hahaha...with a little help from here and there (God sent angels!!). Zach gets to stay for a few hours each afternoon somewhere while i am off to my "2nd job". This is how Zach puts it, always telling me only to "work 1 job, not 2 jobs".

Working in Miri, i have the luxury to come back for lunch almost everyday (yes, my house is only 10 minutes away from the office and there is NO traffic jam here!) but to this lil' boy, he thinks i have 2 jobs - one in the morning and another different one in the afternoon!! how innocent! How i wish i get double pay too!

Anyway, for the past weeks, he was sent to
1) an auntie's place (1st week),
2) few days at home (becos another auntie came over the house) and
3) this week, at another friend's place...
4) next week, i don't know!

Despite the busy schedule, we decided to show him a bit of the other side of the world last weekend. Back to the nature.....was the theme for the weekend. Packed some picnic stuff and we headed off to Lambir Hills National Park which is about 30km south of Miri town. Entrance fee is RM10 each. It's been a while since i went jungle trekking. Zach was excited and after 10 minutes walk we reached the waterfall. The water was cold and nice. Saw some fresh-water prawns and huge ants!!!

Zach had a great time with his bucket and spade....and even forgot that he was hungry until when we were on the way back to the house...only then, he asked for food!


We all had a good night sleep after that!

Working Mum..

Now i realise it is not easy being a working mum when you have to juggle between work, cook and taking care of the household!. I have been the lucky gal to have my mom helping me to take care of Zach for the past years, until a week back where she had to go for the eye surgery in KK and will not be back for the next couple of weeks, wah..... my daily schedule suddenly went havoc especially during the first couple of days.

And this is my new schedule:
5:30am - Wake up...or laze in bed for another 5 minutes to think what to cook for lunch
5:45am - In the kitchen, digging stuff out from the fridge..what should i cook?
6:00am - Defrost meat/prawn/fish cake if lunch menu is noodle.
6:20am - The aroma of fried noodles now fills the kitchen...
6:40am - All done. Check what is there to pack for Zach to school...
6:50am - Wake up that lil' gremlin and get him his juice/milk
7:30am - Send my lil' gremlin off to school and make sure i reach office by 8!
11:45pm - Pick Zach from school, bath him, get him his lunch. Hm...wat is for dinner?
12:45pm - Transport him off to my auntie's place...and I go back to office
5:30pm - Pick him up from auntie's place.
5:45pm - Start preparing dinner
6:45pm - Voila..Dinner is ready

By 9:30pm Zach is off to bed...and i finally find time to update my blog....

Well, with the helper at home, things are not that bad as i do not have to worry about cleaning the house, putting the clothes to wash, etc.. but now that she is be going back to her hometown for 2 weeks...wah...maybe i will need a new schedule!!!

Not sure if i would have time to bake after this........*sob*

What happened to all the bananas?

This is what happened when my auntie Elisa made me bring back all the bananas from KK.. Had to dig out and surf for recipes that say "BANANA" as part of the ingredients... So, here's what we had for the whole week after the trip!!! Banana and Oat Muffin, Banana Crumble Muffin, Banana and Sunflower Seed Cake, Chocolate Banana Cake, Banana ShortBread until we all went bananas!

No more bananas for at least a month!!!