Weekend fun @ Cool de sac

This month and next month are tough period for me as I have to work on almost every weekend (except National Day). Having little time for my precious ones, I decided to bring my girl along with me to work last Saturday as it was a pretty straightforward task for 2 hours. Furthermore, the boy have been demanding alot of my attention and I wanted to have some time alone with my girl so that she do not feel neglected.

Since we were already in town, my colleagues and I decided on a playdate for our girls in the vicinity. So after we had our lunch, we were deciding between Hokey Pokey, Polliwogs or Cool de sac and we settled for Cool de sac. It was a great decision that we have made. The playground is indeed very cool!

That was me and my girl while preparing for the participants to arrive. Simply love that Me & mini Me card!

Her favourite Japanese food for lunch

The 3 little princesses at lunch. They were very happy to see one another.

The place is huge but I did not take alot of photos as I was busy running about with my excited girl

The slide! I guess slide is one of the must-haves in all playgrounds. And I love the slide too! Too bad my girl is grown up and do not require my companion to take the slide with her. But I did find a few opportunities to take the slide and it was swooshing fun!

The 3 princesses waiting for their turns. Guess what are they waiting patiently for?

Tadaa! There is a hand painting corner in the playground and the kids simply love to have their hand painted with lovely characters. Isn't that cool?

The ga-rang girl playing the monkey bars, swinging from one end to another end.

Well, I guess this was meant for younger kids but they sure did have lots of fun.

There is also an Art N craft corner for the kids to display their creativity. The corner is well-equipped with papers, scissors, glue, crayons, markers and many more. And they have staff clearing and replenishing the table from time to time. Thumbs Up for service!

Selfie time for the mummies! While the kids were busy at the toddlers' area. There are many places for parents to take a seat and order drinks and snacks while watching their kids from far.

Cool de sac is indeed a very interesting playground for the kids. They have many sections for the different age groups and for different interest such as hand painting, dressing up, Arts N Craft, lego corner and more.

I felt bad that my boy is missing out on the fun in this cool playground. Definitely will be visiting this place again with my 2 kids. Am considering to hold my girl's birthday party there too. Shall see how it works out.

Selfie with my happy girl who insisted to take a train home after the fun. Isn't she lovely? Simply love her sweet smile!

Expected! KO during the train ride home. Sleeping soundly like a little baby.

Feeling blissful!

It's a long weekend! But I had to work on Saturday and Sunday. Thanks goodness that today is a PH! I have been feeling exhausted, almost to the point of fatigue.

But it has been a while since I last cooked for the family and I would like them to have home-cooked food today. So I suggested to go market to get the ingredients for dinner. We gotten the ingredients and I started to prepare the all-time favourite ABC soup in the noon.

After getting the kids to take their nap, I had to continue to clear my work as there are tons of work waiting for me. At this point (when I was stressed between clearing as much work as I can and to start preparing dinner), my hubs offered to cook the dinner. Imagine how relieved and grateful I was then! I mean I felt bad that my hubs had to cook as I was the one who initiated home cooked food but I feel so blissful that I have a hubby that loves and supports me!

Regardless of SAHM or FTWM, it is so so so important to have a supportive partner. And I am so glad that I found my Mr Right! Hmmm... I must have done something good to deserve him :)

Simple home-cooked food with love!!!

Travel madness

MIA for a period! Been so so so swarmed with work and trying to compensate with quality time with my family.

When I was offered the new job, I was informed that I have to travel to LA for a global conference in June. And I have booked my family vacation in June before I went on a job search. Coincidentally, the dates overlap. LA work trip was supposed to be from 24 June to 1 July but I have to depart for my family vacation on 30 June. Lucky the management allowed me to be excused for the next few days and I came back earlier to prepare for the vacation.

That's my 2 babies who offered to help to pack my luggage the night before I head off to LA. Apparently they were packing their stuff in more than mine.

So I traveled to LA on 24 June. First time on such a long flight with transit at Taoyuan Airport. I thought I could sleep during the flight as I was alone since the kids were not with me, only to realise that it is a fact that I am not able to sleep well on board the plane regardless with kids or no kids. Ended up with bad jet lag. Took 2 days to tune back the human clock. Oh! And I have to travel back to SG on the late evening on the 3rd night.

Fresh air. Cool climate. It felt great to be in LA. It was exciting for me as it was my first trip to USA afterall.

Finally! Craving of egg benedict satisfied. Yums!

One of the footwear that I have gotten during the visit to the Distribution Centre. Loving them!

It was a pleasant surprise that the return flight was Hello Kitty themed plane. But I guess I was really too tired as I didn't recall the plane taking off. I must have doze off soon after boarding the plane.

Hello Kitty themed boarding passes. Ain't they cute?

Even the toiletries were in Hello Kitty containers

I reached SG at noon on 29 June and despite the lack of rest from the flight, it was so pleasing to hear my kids screaming "Mummyyyyy" at the arrival gate. We settled our lunch at T3 before we head home so I could unpack and pack our stuff for our Aussie trip. Yes, I have to be back at airport that evening at 11pm. After packing all the stuff into the luggage (luckily I have packed the kids stuff before I head to LA), I managed to steal 2 hours of sleep on my comfy bed before we depart to airport.

We were in Gold Coast from 30 June to 7 July. It was a great trip with lots of fun, happiness, discovery but very tiring too. I shall share more about the family vacation soon. Keeping my fingers crossed (noting that I have to work for the next 4 consecutive Saturdays).

Till the next blog.