This week was a hectic week (Who am I kidding? Everyweek is hectic!) with Chinese New Year looming near and kids homework ramping up and spelling sheets flying everywhere! I was able to shop better and stick better to the plan with last week’s experience. I was also able to improvise and change plans when [...]
So, I had committed to blogging about my meal planning experience. For the last month or so, I have been browsing the internet for recipes that might be suitable for my needs. Namely : Easy Fast Family will eat Nutritious Out of 10 recipes that I look at, I reject 9. Most recipes do not [...]
Tags: meal planning
Our lifestyle changed this year with half of our 4 kids moving nearer to our home than our in-laws’ home. So I have my wish of cooking lunch and dinner for half our family. I know that if I don’t do any meal planning, grocery shopping will be messy and expensive, not knowing [...]
Tags: budget, health, meal planning
Today is the first of school. Not just any typical first day of school. This is the day that my first born steps into secondary school and my third born steps into primary school. Many feelings go through me as I watch the boys wore their new uniforms proudly. Of course, the moment is sometimes lost [...]
Tags: change, metamorphosis
This is the season of Advent. It is the period before Christmas that I am supposed to be preparing for the coming of Christ. To be ready when He comes knocking at my door. I think I have a lot of work ahead of me! This is also the end of the calendar year 2011. [...]
Tags: advent, challenge, work life balance
If you give a mom a muffin, She’ll want a cup of coffee to go with it. So she’ll pour herself some. The coffee will get spilled by her three year old. She’ll wipe it up. Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks. She’ll remember she has to do some laundry. When she [...]
Tags: fun
It was one of those life changing moments. Those that you never see coming and then – WHAM! – your life changes forever. A few weeks ago, I recieve a note from my son’s school saying that they will be putting him and his cohort through a 3-day Adam Khoo’s motivation and study workshop, SuperKids. [...]
Tags: Children, commitment
This is the easiest lunch in the world! Mainly protein from the tuna and beans, and carbohydrates from the pasta. Great to brown bag. It heats up in a flash in my trusty microwave but it is delicious cold as well! Ingredients 1 can of tuna fish chunks/flakes (I love the chili flavoured one but [...]
Every morning, dear husband and I will take the train to work. Today was no different. When we got to the platform, there was more people waiting than normal. The train came in a couple of minutes and we chose not to board the train as the next train was only 3 minutes away. When [...]
Tags: decisions, mitch albom
I know it is not Friday yet but this is too good a recipe to wait. I made it from memory last Sunday after watching Nigella fry it up for her girlfriend and herself. After which I checked her book and found that I completely changed the seasoning. It went really well nonetheless and was [...]
Tags: light meals, non-vegetarian, recipe friday
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