Sunday, April 29, 2007 ;
3:22 PM
28 April
Sat evening
We were invited to a church friend's house for a BBQ. Yay, the weather was good and this is the first BBQ we are going to have, ever since leaving Spore. And in Spore we loved to do BBQs.
Though the BBQs here do not typically include homemade garlic spread on french baguette slices, sting rays, sotong, tiger prawns, salmon, lamb kebabs (from Swiss Butchery), and of course sweet potato and corn... hee... wow, it was still very good...
Nothing beats cooking meat over an open fire... so juicy and fragrant. yum yum, and they marinated their meats well.
And they were such great hosts... They are already grandparents of 3 grandkids, but their grandkids are in Japan for couple of years, so they had some toys but those toys were already stored away for quite awhile. They dug them out and even set up this wigwam tent for the kids to play in. The kids had sooo much fun with the tent, the blocks and wagon of toys, and the 3 cats... They chased the cats all over the place.
And their garden is beautiful. Unlike ours, flushed with weeds and many different species of grass, their lawn is even and they had various flowering shrubs (lilac), fruit trees and such. I caught the apple tree and apple flowers on camera, but they also had apricot and some other fruit trees which I forgot the names of. Arrggh, terrible memory.
The other thing I managed to do there may sound silly... I managed to get our whole family weighed! haha.
They have an electronic digital bathroom scale and we all weighed ourselves cos we haven't done so since coming to USA. Both kids only put on about 0.5 to 0.7kg. Pathetic. Both dh and I remained the same.
That's odd cos my jeans seem tighter, that's why I thought I was putting on weight from all the Ben and Jerry's.. Maybe the overall weight is the same but somehow the fats are all migrating to the waist. hmmm, not a nice thought...
The kids look even thinner now that they're not wearing winter wear.. They looked much better (and cuter) in the thick jackets... Now they're just scrawny. And I loved hiding behind those thick clothes too. Though laundry was a nightmare in winter. Now I am having lighter loads of washing.
There might be cold spells still, but soon I can look forward to storing all the warm clothing away and my parents will come with my long-lost clothes from Singapore. All my beloved old clothes I used to wear... I didn't bring them cos they're mostly sleeveless or short sleeve, too thin etc. Now I can wear them! yay!
And nursing will finally be less troublesome. I can wear just my sleeveless MIM tops...no need to lift thousands of layers before ds2 can nurse... aiyoh, and also when I nurse in public, the cold winds freeze up my tummy, even with the bfg clothes covering it.
Great! I await and welcome summer with open arms!
rainbows every day, do not worry for the morrow
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