Part-time mum

We had a little guest with us in our home yesterday. Princess' little friend, C, had gone for her P1 registration at a school near my place. She currently lives in Woodlands and it's unusual for her to be in our area. But they are looking to move closer to school. While I was messaging her mum in the morning, I thought why not see if little C wants to spend the day with us while her mum went back to work. Her mum said to do it another time as C had speech and drama classes yesterday. So I took it as that. After like 5 minutes, she rings me up and says C refused to go to school and was asking when she was coming over to me. Her mum had told her that princess was in school and there was only me at home. That didn't deter her. Anyhow, I told her it wasn't a problem, that I would take her for the day and the girls could have fun together. So it was settled, and while they were on the way, like only 15mins away, I ran around doing all the little things to get the house tidied up a bit. By the time they arrived, it was slightly more presentable.

The girls played very well together and not a quarrel between them (phew). They made crafts with Hama beads, played on the PSP and DS, and made more crafts. Meanwhile, in the kitchen I had some ready cupcake mix which I made up real quickly and after frosting them, gave two little bowls of decoration for them to decorate the tops with. Here's what they did...

I fried some fish fillet with breadcrumbs, which I had picked up a couple of days earlier. Love the crispiness on them when freshly fried.

This is what they had for dinner. Hey Al, do those plastic containers look familiar? ;) Ooops, yes, I also made some blueberry konnyaku jelly with my new moulds but they are mostly gone now so this is all that is left. Can you spy the heart, flower, pineapple and cat?

For lovers of Hello Kitty, Daiso has new stocks of HK merchandise just on the shelves on Tuesday this week. Don't miss them.

Something to blog about

Just some of the stuff we accumulated over the Christmas and birthday period. Thanks to those who gave them.

Got some book vouchers from Aunt & Uncle for Christmas and came across this book. Decided to get it for myself because of all the interesting cupcakes inside. Hope to try out some recipes soon.

A happy day & a surprise guest

After school yesterday, I dropped princess off at a playdate and her friend's mum was really kind and invited me to lunch with them. I had a quick lunch and went off to meet D. She had brought back some goodies from HKG. Coincidentally, I've just read in Peony's blog that she too had gone on a shopping spree over in Japan. :)

Some of the stuff she picked up are duplicates which I already have, so am keen to sell them off. P has her eyes on some of these so will meet up with her next week to show them to her. And on top of that, there are many packets of Hello Kitty pasta which I need to help D get rid of as her little one does not like them. There is nothing wrong with the pasta. It's just that little A, according to her mum, is fussy about food.

But the thing that really has me excited is the chance to meet one of the popular bloggers here, as she is home on a short visit with her kids. Can't wait to see her today. We get along really well and she is a very nice, friendly person. Will tell you more after we meet. ;)