Little Beggar

There is a little beggar in our apartment who appears in the mornings...

Beggar here again

See, she has her begging cup beside her.

Just SE with eyes closed

This SE... is so difficult to dig out of bed.  When JE goes to brush her teeth, this one will still be snuggled up in her blanket.  Usually needs me to go to the room again and yell at her to get up.  When she finally goes to the bathroom, JE is done and out.  Then SE 'doesn't want to be lonely' and brings her stuff to that corner where she can see us at the dining table. Then she will brush her teeth there with her eyes closed.

Art class resumes

With the loosening of MCO SOPs, the kids' art classes have resumed. Seems the two of them are the only ones actually in class though.  Smart of the teacher... they offer online classes which I see no point in attending.  So they open class just for us hahaha.  At least they get two extra sets of fees.  They conduct online class at the same time while attending to these two.

JE doesn't like the classes and says she doesn't learn anything.  I'm not sure whether I should take that with a pinch of salt since she's negative about most things anyway.  SE said she liked the first class.  So I keep to my principle... if I'm sending one kid, might as well send both.  A different activity besides screen time and they must be learning SOMETHING.  They don't have attend anything else now - no more tuition, swimming, gymrama, hip-hop (the last being a very short-lived thing).

Took them to McDonald's after class.

These McFlurries are pretty good

Ah Mah's birthday 2021

At least we could celebrate this occasion, with everyone in attendance!  Better to exercise some caution though so we ordered in and ate in.  The choice was easy - the Thai food we tried and liked for CNY this year.  It was good again. :)

Food, approved!

We haven't had a meal together for ages!  

2 grandparents, 7 grandkids and 1 cake

Too many candles, cannot see the cake haha.

Cake by itself

Happy birthday to our beloved mother and grandmother!

Tapau

Tapau-ed from my favourite nearby restaurant which wasn't open for dine-in yet.  Nah, definitely not as good as eating there with everything served fresh out of the wok. 

Also don't have proper serving dishes at home.  There is actually a 'cheong cheng' (spicy gravy style) steamed fish which in the shop would come in a grand steaming platter with warming candles underneath.  At home my maid unceremoniously plopped the fish onto a round plate and plonked all the gravy on top.  Haha.

This is mehhh.  I prefer McDonald's

Overall still tasted good enough.  And the price was hardly more than McDonald's since we didn't buy rice or drinks.  But won't bother to take away again. 

Out

We have started venturing out for meals.  Individual outlets for now, not yet malls.  Also those which aren't so crowded.

What to eat, what to eat

Everything's good!

Hubby was taking photos of his drink, the food.  He'd been really house-bound for MCO and for someone who normally goes out a lot with his friends, it was a big change.  At least I'd been out and about a bit, and happily ordering food and other things.  He was paranoid even to collect deliveries.  So ended up he became slightly down and depressed. 

Take photo first...

And a nice waffle ice-cream dessert to finish

We totally enjoyed the outing.  Will be (cautiously) going out more.

Ice-creams and a conversation

Got the girls an ice-cream treat.  Actually I buy tons of ice-cream - used to be imported tub-types as I think they are overall nutritious.  Haagen Dazs for one has a very short list of ingredients.  Then JE said she prefers stick types so now our freezer houses a selection of Cornetto, Solero, Paddle pop, Top ten, Choco crunch, ice-cream potong, boba, milo.... haha this mummy does things in style!  (Ok self praise)

Getting a cone at the shop is a novelty though.

Flavours: Mint choc chip, lunar berry

One thing, SE in particular would complain if I want to eat some of her food.  My immediate reaction was... hel-lo? I bought you that! 

Had an interesting conversion with hubby.  He said that the kids in particular have zero spending power so if you buy them something, there should be no conditions.  They own it and they decide what to do with it.  If you tell them - this is bought with my money and if you don't let me eat what I like of it, next time I won't buy you anything - it's a power play which isn't fair.

Hmm all right that does sound logical also.

    

This one is MY ice-cream, ok?

Cat lady

We have spayed the cat that produced kittens a few times.  Still plenty of cats are left.  Hubby feeds one cat and others also come along.  JE likes playing with them so on weekends these cats get to eat many times a day!

Food coming food coming

You all eat properly ar

To me they are overall a nuisance - scratch tyres on the car, always noisily meowing, rubs themselves against our legs etc.  At least they get JE out of the house a while.