Nuts about nuts

As a kid, I loved chocolate. Later, I realised that nuts could be so much more yummier than chocolate!

Cashew nuts are my fave. When I started working, I bought baked cashew nuts to eat with yogurt at home as a meal replacement coz I was trying to lose weight after university. Later, when I was breastfeeding Kai, I always had a small Ikea box of baked cashew nuts close by so I could snack if I got hungry when I woke to nurse in the middle of the night. 

During the recent Ramadan, we found peanuts at a steal in the supermarket so we started snacking on nuts. Kai likes the salted peanuts. Sito and I eat that mostly, plus the cracker nuts and seaweed nuts. I'm satisfied enough with these to give up cashew nuts which are way more expensive :p

At the Qing Ming gathering, I realised that my siblings already had a lot of white hair. I have just a few strands which are visible only if I comb my hair a certain way. Kind of strange. Did some googling and found that nuts could have had an impact on greying hair!

JY added that I wasn't stressed. But I only stopped paid work last year, and there was much to stress about, what with the kids' studies (more on that next time...), cooking (what next for dinner?!), the whole HDB thingy (I didn't feel settled until sale was completed earlier this year), and since February, renovation.

Anyway, nuts are here to stay in this household :) Love snacking on nuts when watching drama at night!

A Mothers' Day full of surprises

Is it Mothers' Day or Mother's Day? Anyway...

A few days ago, Yang asked me when Mothers' Day was. He said he wanted to get a present for me from the bookshop. My sons like to go to the school bookshop so he must have spotted flowers with greetings on them. He mentioned this in either P1 or P2 but no action, which was fine and rather cute :p

But this time, he came home on Friday and said he had something for me. He fished out a little card with a smile on his face. He said he wanted to get me a "proper" Mothers' Day present but the bookshop had run out of flowers. I assured him that any present during this time was a great Mothers' Day present :)

Later, he said the card cost $1, could he have the money? Wa liao, haha! Then he asked for more time with me at bedtime. Gladly, coz he's the sweetest at bedtime - when he's not distracted by Kai!

Then this morning, I was keeping clothes from the drying racks in the small room when Yu walked in with a stalk of flower and a smiley "Happy Mothers' Day!" I was so surprised! As I took the flower and walked out, Yang came to me with another stalk and said the same. I was near the fridge when Kai handed me a stalk with "For you!" My Sito was standing at the fridge with two stalks of flowers. I took them all :)

So yesterday, Sito bought the flowers when he went out to get liang cha. He left the flowers at the foyer and went out to collect only after showering. No wonder I heard the door open! He had this smile on his face when he saw me come out of the room while hiding the flowers in the fridge. Hmmm... But I didn't see anything even though I opened the fridge last night and this morning! 

So sweet :) Thank you, my hub and pups!

My presents are sitting pretty on the dining table, brightening up our home :)