The Best Medicines

When I am feeling blue, especially lately due to the stress that I’ve been having through out our secret mission, I always count on my 3 best medicines. They are:

1. God - the One who continuously listens to all my problems, the One who gives me good health and guides me through every steps of my life.

2. Arman - the one who continuously supports me with all the most comforting words, who never asks for more than I could give, the one who always try to be the ’superman’ in our family so that we don’t have to suffer.

3. Andrew - the one who always cracks me up with his cuteness and the one who with his own ways try to comfort me when he sees me sad or cry. (Andrew saw me crying these past few days, he quickly grabbed a tissue and wiped all my tears then said mommy, don’t cry)

With these 3 best medicines in the whole world and kind supporting words from other members of the family, relatives and friends, I am sure I will be able to go through everything. Thank you all!

Vietnamese Spring Roll

Two of my favorite Vietnamese dishes are the combo pork skin with BBQ beef over rice and the Spring Roll. Today, I managed to make the Vietnamese Spring Roll myself. It is delicious.

Farmer’s Market at the Park

Above are the pictures taken at our nearby park. Every Saturdays, the park has a farmer’s market and some activities for young kids. The vegetables and fruits sold at this market are fresh and spray free. At the park, they also have 2 playgrounds separately for older and younger kids. Andrew enjoys playing at the playground so much. It is a great place to spend a nice Saturday morning.

Sweet and Sour Tilapia

These past few days, I’ve been craving for sweet and sour fried fish. I then remember how my mother-in-law used to make this dish every once in a while. So when I did my grocery a few days ago, I bought 2 frozen pack of tilapias home. Made the call to her yesterday and she was kind enough to share with me another one of her recipes. Note that I have modified some of the ingredients (she uses thin slices of garlic and mix of water and tapioca starch to thicken the sauce), because I don’t have some of the ingredients.

It finally came

As you might have noticed, there hasn’t been any new posting in this past one week. I’ve been through so many things that keep my mind very busy and the impact was my hormones seemed to be going like a roller coaster.

Last week, I looked at the calendar and noticed that my monthly guest didn’t make it’s prompt visit this time. I was getting worried and a lot more worried as it passed two weeks from the regular date. Could I be pregnant? Could I be carrying another child in my womb? If so, how would I feel?

Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been wanting to have another baby so much and weirdly I want to have a girl specifically. I can’t stop looking through the baby girl’s clothing whenever I walked by the babies’ store. I even imagined how my life would be with a loving husband, a toddler cute boy and a baby girl. But yet, as much I wanted to have another child, I now deep down inside that this is not the right timing yet. We still have a few other priorities that we like to have set up first and we know that financially we couldn’t afford having another child yet.

I was getting really nervous and decided that I should just get over-the-counter home pregnancy test pack and just get things over with. At least that way, I know what I would be facing. So I did and the result was negative, even though, honestly, I was sort of hoping it would be positive. I still wasn’t relieved and thought that the test pack must have been inaccurate. I waited for a few more days and before I did the second one, it finally came. Pheuwwww….this time, I felt very much relieved. At least now I have one less thing to worry. And hopefully the other things that we are facing right now will be over soon.

Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award

Surprise….surprise….guess what, today, I was reading my WordPress Dashboard and saw an incoming link from Tess. On her blog, she awarded me the Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award. She wrote a nice paragraph about me and my blog. Thanks a lot for giving me this award, Tess!

The tradition is to pass this award to the most inspiring person and I would like to pass this award to Mbak Astri Nugraha. She is not only a great blogger, but also a super mommy of two adorable daughters who look just like dolls (and another one baby coming soon), a wonderful wife to her loving husband and a creative graphic designer. She puts so much attention to details as you can see on her website. She writes extremely detailed milestones for each of her daughters, documents each layout of her web since the beginning she started the site, shares tremendous yummy recipes from her kitchen and stories about her families, friends are passions. Her website is just so fun to read. You are rockin’, girl!

Steamed Ginger Garlic Pomfret

When I was pregnant with Andrew, I often ate this dish. My mom thought me how to cook this very simple dish. Since we moved to the US, I haven’t been cooking any fish at all. Per Rina, my good friend’s request, today, I am posting my first fish dish in the US to add up to my recipes’ collection. Andrew loves this dish so much that he ate almost the whole one side of the fish.

Daikon Soup (Sop Lobak)

This is one of my favorite soup. My mom used to cook this when we were little. I then continue having this particular soup every once in a while.

The Reasons…..

These are the whole reasons why motherhood is so enjoyable…

Now (Andrew is 31 month old)…

Then (Andrew was 10 month old)…

Those expressions always make my days brighter…

Precious Moments (Part II)

There were lots of comments that I got after I did my posting on Precious Moments. Therefore I decided to have a sequel posting to the first one. I was looking at my Precious Moments’ collages the other day and realized that I missed one figurine. I looked over the list of Precious Moments’ Figurines that I have but couldn’t find the one that was missing. I then realized that I’ve sold it to my friend, Cencen, back in October 2007.