Egg-citing!

While making an order of agar, I recalled my mum making egg-shaped agar for us, and it was such a thrill to crack the "eggs" and chew on the yummy agar

After collecting empty egg shells for a couple of days, I placed the leftover agar in the empty shells.

My kids felt the same thrill as I felt when I had this simple treat....another simple party idea that still excites the kids........

Shelling eggs with little mess!

Happy!

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My 7th Mother's Day

The Scene....sunday morning....husband flipping thro the newspapers(typical).....wife desperately icing some cupcakes for church while barking at the kids to eat breakfast fast and get ready for church....

The Husband:"Mother's day is today right?"

The unimpressed wife:"Ya..?"

The Husband to kids:" Let's go out for lunch today, for mummy!"

The Kids:"Yeh! Yeh! Macdonald's!"

The Husband:"Where hah?"

The unimpressed wife:"Hog's Breath at Holland V, save you some money, can have 1-for-1 set lunch..."

The Husband:"ok, set!"

The Kids: "Yeh! Yeh! Fries and coke!"

Familiar?

At least this year I ate, sitting down, at a restaurant....in 2005 when we were living in Perth, the husband and equally negligent male friend and our families, bought us mums and unimpressed mothers-in-law.....takeaway fish and chips in cottlesloe and found a palm tree for us to stand around to eat(cos the ozzies were more prepared and took up every available picnic space on the beach and seats in restaurants)....take goodness we were already married, cannot imagine what the mother-in-laws would have done !

Sometimes, I just wished that the husband just put in a little more effort....no matter how non-chalant that I am towards all these commercial celebrations, it is nice to feel more appreciated! At least kids came back with school made gifts....

Well, back to why, I was desperately icing the cupcakes.....The church was having a big party as it was Pentecost Sunday and also the church's feast day. So there was a call for volunteers to make desserts or cakes. Great, something we can do as a family (less husband and baby) for the church!

5 days before the sunday, I told husband, I kind of regret offering to do 50 cupcakes and a tray of jelly (this was laziness talking!)....husband then casually mentioned:"erh, for church, you promise and don't do, may go to hell...." Maybe it was God talking through the husband!

So, with that at the back of my mind, I rationalised that jelly wasn't a good idea cos there won't be refrigeration, so just stick to cupcakes!Kids also had a hand in baking and decorating....

And Viola....my cupcakes turned out pretty swell looking! probably with some divine intervention, too....

At the end of my 7th uneventful mother's day, as I was putting kids to sleep, Zach remembered he was to sing me a song....

"I love you mummy, deep down in my heart, I love you mummy deep down in my heart, talk about deep deep deep deep deep down in my heart, talk about deep deep deep deep deep down in my heart!"

The real icing on the cake!

btw, when I asked him to repeat the song the next day for papa, he refused and said next mother's day will be the next performance!

Memo from COO (Tan Family)

Time passes even faster when time is now devoted to 3 kids instead of running in the rat-race at work.....As a SAHM, i feel equally drained and strained, if not more so, then at work!

As the COO of the family, its no joke getting the sub-ordinates to toe the line, do more work (mummy's homework), submit their work (assessment books) on time, take shorter meal times (draggy breakfast, lunch and dinner) and skive less (watching cartoons). But at the end of the day, I do feel very happy (not tremendously satisfied, since I reckon I would be that stage only when they are all grown and paying me back with a cut of their salaries....) that I am the one moulding their lives....

Well in the meantime, I have had the time to also indulge in experimenting with are jelly moulds when birthdays come round the corner....

Oscar the Grouch was made for my 10 year-old nephew. He's a nice boy, but he can be rather demanding and grouchy, thus it was perfect! He has way outgrown, Barney, Elmo or even Power Rangers.....

Remember this? I was digging through my tray collection for a mould for my brother's 40th suprise party! Popeye was definitely fitting for one born in the 60s! Even made a pair of boobs....but I am a wholesome, family blogger! So no pics of boobs! But I must say it looked darn real!