Mother's Day 2017

My sister is back from Canberra to celebrate Mother's Day with our mum this year. (And we're going off on a short trip this Wednesday, but that will be another blog post! Can't wait!).

So anyway, after church, we had brunch at Macallum Connoiseurs as my mum really likes the coffee there.

My mum and her 2 daughters:

Me and my 3 daughters :)

With the daddies now:

The cafe had some cakes with Mother's Day deco:

And this was a special apple cake with ice cream called "Poached & Crumbles" which they made specially for Mother's Day. It was quite delicious.

After brunch and after the little one had her nap, we went to Chew Thean Yeang to buy some fish for our aquarium. Look at how happy this little girl was

I also posted this on my Instagram and Facebook - true story!

I received several Mother's Day greetings this morning and in my haste to reply to one of them, I didn't realise that I had responded "sane to you" instead of "same to you" (blame it on autocorrect!). But on hindsight, I suppose I wasn't all that wrong. It's nothing new that our kids can sometimes drive us crazy and it takes a whole lot of sanity to break up fights, clean up messy little hands and mouths, multi-tasking with homework, having eyes at the back of your head and answering endless "why" "what" and "where" questions and all the while keep a straight head while doing it. But although it can drive us in"sane", it is so rewarding all at the time time. To my brood of 3, I am so blessed to be your mummy. And to all mummies, enjoy your day - you certainly deserve it.

And to my own supermum, happy Mother's Day with lots of love!

Mother's Day 2015

We had a simple Mother's Day this year, celebrating with just ourselves and my sisters-in-law. My mother-in-law was busy during the weekend attending a relative's wedding, so she couldn't join us this year.

I saw this text in the morning sent by Hubby - such a nice way to start off the day *feeling loved* :) Cos I always complain to him that I am fat haha :)

Hubby took us for a nice lunch at Rakuzen - no pictures of any food because I was more interested in eating than taking pictures haha. But here's one of my small baby and big "baby". I think this is a lovely picture of the both of them.

Then back at my sister-in-law's place, we had dessert. Hubby specially ordered 2 of these cakes, one for me and one for my mum (more about that later).

3 mummies and a cake :)

We then had an early dinner at Pizza Hut (for which we got a free stuffed crust pizza because my sister-in-law complained that the pizza was cold), and thereafter ice-cream at Baskin Robbins! Of course, the kids loved it :)

Back at home, we had another cake with my mum. Helene and Heidi were cranky, so it was just me and Hannah and my dad while hubby took the other 2 back to our own house.

Here's a closer look at the cake. It may not look very pretty, but it's absolutely delicious. It's known as a mille crepe cake, because it's made up of layers of crepe with fresh cream between the layers. We had a French Vanilla and a Peach Passion mille crepe cake - the Peach Passion also had peach slices between the layers. We ordered the cakes from Humble Beginnings at their Gurney Plaza outlet. It's not cheap, but worth every cent.

So that concluded my simple Mother's Day this year. Here are the little gifts I got and also a handmade card which Hannah made in school.

Happy Mother's Day to all my super-mummy friends, my own mummy and my mummy relatives. We should remember that every day should be Mother's Day!

Two cakes for two occasions

I don't really like cakes with too much cream or frosting, so Jan's plain butter cake and moist chocolate cake are two of my favourites. Since I was still on confinement on Mothers' Day this year, Hubby bought a mini butter cake and chocolate cake from Jan's @ Abu Siti Lane for a small celebration at home.

Hannah and Heidi walked into my room each carrying one cake with a candle lighted up, and they were so excited with the "surprise"! Either that, or they were excited that they could get to eat cake ;)

So this was my first Mothers' Day with all my 3 little girls.

So on my father's birthday yesterday, I requested Hubby to buy the same two cakes again to celebrate at home since Helene is still a bit young to go out. Hannah and Heidi were again excitedly waiting to surprise their Gong Gong, each holding a cake with a lighted candle.

As expected, my dad was indeed pleasantly surprised :)

The girls helped him to blow out the candles. First Hannah:

Then Heidi:

And then it was picture time! Grandparents with their granddaughters:

Kiss for Gong Gong from Hannah:

And one from Heidi:

And Gong Gong with the latest addition to the family, little Helene:

Hannah and Heidi also helped to cut the cakes.

And then it was time for a whole family picture:

Happy birthday Papa/Gong Gong with lots of love from all of us!

Mother's Day 2013

This was my 2nd time celebrating Mother's Day as a mummy of two. My big girl Hannah made me a Mother's Day card in kindy which she gave to me on Friday, but she had already told me all about it since early in the week. She told me it would be a surprise though, so she was excitedly waving it at me when I picked her up from kindy on Friday.

Last year little Heidi was still too small to go anywhere so this year we had a yummy Mother's Day lunch at TGIF, Queensbay Mall.

My two girls and I. Heidi as usual could not sit still so her picture was blurry.

And this is a picture of me and my own mummy 32 years ago (yes that is how old I am!). I think I look more like Heidi as a baby than Hannah.

Happy Mother's Day to all mummies! 

My 2nd Mothers' Day

This year I celebrated Mothers' Day for the second time. The night before, we had a simple cake to celebrate five mummies, Hubby's mum, his three sisters and myself. Isn't the cake lovely? Of course, all the kids enjoyed it more, especially Hannah! :)



The next day, Hubby took us to Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. Surprisingly it was quite empty, even though it was Mothers' Day. Nothing like the hype that surrounded it when it first opened.

When we arrived, Hannah was given a packet of crayons and a colouring paper and that kept her occupied for some time. She especially enjoyed it since now one of her favourite things is drawing and colouring.



My daughter and I :)



She was also thrilled to see the guitars hanging all over the place. The last time we came here was when she was only 7 months old, so she wasn't as observant of her surroundings.



We ordered a kiddie's meal for her and it came with a milkshake. She thought she was drinking ice-cream :)



I ordered the Mothers' Day set to share and we had tomato soup for starters:



Followed by some sort of prawn salad:



Hannah's main meal - fish and chips:



This was the extra main course we ordered: chicken sandwich. When the orders came, we realised we could have done without this and shared the main course for the set as well. The portions are huge!



Main course for the set: Parmesan Chicken



And finally dessert - strawberry shortcake with berry coulis (I have been watching too much MasterChef which is why I know the word "coulis") :)



After our meal, we took a walk to the beach. Hannah got a balloon from the cafe. She was actually given a red balloon, but she insisted she wanted the purple one, so she got the purple one instead.



She was so excited and kept saying, "play sand, play sand!"





She likes to see the sand running through her fingers.



Happy 2nd Mothers' Day to me and to my mother and my grandmother too!