When Popo goes for Medical Appointment...

Mummy will take leave to "babysit" the kids and send them to the school bus. On such mornings, if mummy feels up to it, we will do something "special". Now that Lil Shauna is in Primary school, there is only Zaky to man.

I always had an interest in baking. It is not that I bake fantastically but I still enjoy doing so. Unfortunately, life got too busy and most of my baking stuff had to be discarded after prolong periods of sitting in the cabinets. I stopped totally when the oven died. After we shifted to Centris, I can always hear the built-in oven calling out softly but persistently to me. I wanted so much to bake cookies with the kids. Cookies are super easy and they don't create a huge mess like cakes. However, I was put off just by the thought of Popo's disapproving look.

Finally, we had our chance. Muahahaha. When the cat is away, the mice come out to play. To save work, we bought instant cookie mix; just add an egg and a stick of butter.

Zaky was overjoyed when he realised that we were going to do something special. I didn't want to use all the cookie mix and have no idea how much is a 'stick' of butter; big or small stick? The beauty with cookie also lies with the fact that it would still turn out fine even if the amount of ingredients is not precise. We wasted some egg and butter bcos it felt too much. Zaky helped to mix everything together and put them onto the baking paper. I was worried that the cookies wouldn't turn out well bcos the dough felt too wet.

How did the cookies turn out? They didn't look too bad eventually.

They were very sweet though and we didn't even add any sugar. I am very sure whatever calories that I burnt on the treadmill that very morning were replenished by the cookies. I actually preferred hard crunchy cookies but these are the soft ones. Zaky and I polished 2 off. We would definitely eat more if they aren't so sweet or are cruncher. I guess we can explore making cookies from scratch the next time; there are so many easy recipes from the Internet. For now, I just have to worry about how to answer to Lil Shauna, who didn't have the chance to bake the cookies. I am so dead.

We made good use of the morning and accomplished some homework as well before sending the boy to the school bus. I almost can't believe that he is going to P1 next year. We used to have plenty of tears whenever I sent him to the school bus. No more now.

I even had time to finally dye my hideous hair and spent the afternoon working from home with my beloved cup of double tall latte. Yum!

Mummy Lim