Ice Skating 70 and Last Day of 2016

We missed ice skating last week bcos we were in HKG. Teacher Raymond texted while we were in HKG to inform that the rink is opened for lesson on NYE. We agreed to attend despite having to pay for entry; Lil Shauna's student pass doesnt work on eve of PH. We attended the class bcos it wouldnt do her good to be away from ice for too long. She would also miss ice next week as the rink is closed for speed skating event.

How was it? Not the best. Haha. I didn't have to join her in the rink. I figured out that there wouldnt be figure skating group classes and she could go into the 1/3 ice the moment we reached at 11am. I was right. Additionally, there weren't many who were taking classes on NYE and the 1/3 ice was super empty. Nice!

I bought her a new skirt from Taobao! Apparently she is getting a lot of nutrients and growing very well. Too well and outgrowing her previous skirt. Haha.

She was eager to practice her sit spin but she barely can conquer her 1-foot and scratch spin. Of course the sit spin didnt turn out well. Haiz, she has never been a spinner and still hasn't found the key to spinning. I made her spin and spin and spin but she still didn't find the key to spinning. I don't know how to help her and I could tell that she was sick and tired of spinning and was doing it for the sake of doing so. I think she lacks the control; only she can help herself.

I didn't quite pay attention to what Teacher Raymond did with her during lesson. I think there was quite some footwork. She just needed the practice anyway.

After class, we went to NTUC to buy ingredients to bake cookies. Coincidentally, lion dance!

I grabbed some recipe from the Internet. I measured the ingredients while the kids were the mixing machines. I bet special ingredients went into the cookie dough. Muahahaha.

Almost done.

Tadah!

I sent the picture to Daddy Lim; he complained that they looked like little pile of 💩 and suggested that we mould them into nicer cookie shape. Too late, all completed. Haha.

How does it taste? It wasn't as nice as I expected them to be. Maybe there was too little butter? I could taste sugar, maybe the sugar was too coarse? It was still too sweet though much better than the pre-mix that we used the last time. Maybe we should cut down on the sugar bcos we threw in so much chocolate chips. Haha. Still, sweet stuff and chocolate is a definite hit with kids.

Daddy Lim was on pm duty and we met the Chan family at NUSS for dinner and play date in the evening. The kids ended up playing football in the playroom with the other kids and they didn't want to go home.

It was in our plan to start getting the kids to go to bed early. School is going to start really soon. It didn't work out very well; it was NYE mah!

For many years, I had been practicing sleeping through the year. Haha. Then when I see FB the next day, I regretted not doing something special. I told Daddy Lim that I wanted to count down with him; have a drink at the pool or something. I know it was a super tough mission.

I tried and I did doze off while tucking the kids but I was awake at 12 mn!! Woohoo! We were too lazy to go to the poolside though but still had our little moment at the balcony.

Happy New Year!

Mummy Lim