A Homemaker’s Diary

For those who are still not aware, Mother’s Day this year will be celebrated on 9th May (the second Sunday in May). Of course there are countries which celebrate Mother’s Day on different date.

So, what do I want for Mother’s Day?

Honestly, I don’t want any flower (hubby, you can save that for our wedding anniversary later..heh!). What I want is an hour or two of complete solitude, a time away from the usual daily routine – I want to sip on my drink, I want to dabble on my food, even a movie time at home is good enough. I just want a time out selfishly for myself.

Do you think I’m asking too much? A Mother’s Day should be celebrated with those she mothers, not run away from them, no? huhu..

The last weekend was not that good..I was tired after the craft class on Saturday so we didn’t go out anywhere.

On Sunday we went to Amcorp Mall to check the bargain at BookXcess. It turned out all the good books were taken. I ended up buying 3 books, 2 for the price of RM1 and another one for RM2.

But I got this pinggan lama corak bunga kangkung instead..hehe!

You can’t really consider it as pinggan antik because antique is something that aged 50 years and above (or is it 100 years?)

Well, I bought one pinggan lauk, one piring kuih, one sudu, one piring cawan and another one dessert plate with made in England design, all that for RM35.

So since I want to portray a kampung style cooking, I decided to make this kerang rebus. Will update about this dish in my cooking blog later.

I came home on Saturday after the decoupage class and then I noticed that my curry leaves plant was so togel..waaa..

This is the culprit, and not only there’s one, there were 4 on the pokok kari…sob!

I will blog about the caterpillars on my gardening blog soon. I am still reading about the complete metamorphosis of butterfly in order for me to write a good, informative entry.

Well, if someone ask me what did I do for Earth Day this year, I would say that I helped rear caterpillars..(at the expense of my curry leaves…huhu!) I hope the curry leaves plant will not die after being eaten voraciously by those hungry caterpillars.

*This post is written for Love World Love Sloggi contest *

We finally bought the Jumbo Crayon at Tango Mango, The Curve. However the Jumbo packs are only available in 8 colors. It is called jumbo since the size is 5″ long × 9/16″ diameter (127 mm × 14 mm). The key primary and secondary colors, in the pack include Blue, Purple, Brown, Red, Orange, Black, Green and Yellow.

Crayola standard crayons measure 3-5/8″ long × 5/16″ in diameter (92 mm × 8 mm) while Crayola Large Size Crayons measure 4″ long × 7/16″ diameter (100 mm × 11 mm). So now you know why this one is called Jumbo..heh!

The shop Mango Tango has all kinds of Crayola products including markers. After browsing at Crayola main website, I realized that they have many more crayon range – triangular, washable just to name a few.

Both Hubby and I really enjoyed the Crayola moment..check out what Hubby drew..heh!

So far, it seems that our son is not really interested to color, but he did scribble and made lines on the paper. We have been showing him the joy of coloring by devoting a few minutes everyday to color his Thomas and Friends workbook.

I am waiting for the Crayola I bought on eBay last night to arrive. Those 2 packs of 24 color crayons were sold at USD1 since I won the bid at the very last minute..heh! The shipping charge is USD10 which even after conversion is still a worth buy.