LiFe As It Is...: Valentine's Day and CNY

Monday, February 19, 2018

Valentine's Day and CNY

There are so many fb jokes about Valentine's Day celebrations (or lack of) with increasing years of courtship/ marriage. I can vouch for that bcos Daddy Lim was working so super late on Valentine's Day. I was hoping to have a lomantic ice cream date with him. Well, the ice cream date still took place; the Valentines are different.

My dates were enjoying the ice cream alot more than Daddy Lim and I would have. Haha.

I didnt have to work on CNY eve while the kids had to go to school for 3 hours. They were in good enough mood to pose so nicely for me before the usual bickering started.

Daddy Lim had to work late but that didnt stop our reunion lunch at my brother's place. At least my thoughts were with him while I was tucking in to the delicious steamboat spread.

He came only in the late afternoon and ferried us to round 2 at his aunt's place. It was another round of yummy steamboat. Z was there too and the kids had fun playing together. Early morning + plenty of fun + 2 reunion meals proved too much for the kids. They were half dead by the time we left.

Our very strong girl still insisted to sleepover at my brother's place. I heard that the girls stayed up until after midnight. The boy had been pleading to do sleepover too but fell asleep in the car on the way home, which also meant that his "sleepover" was back in our room. Haha.

It had been a few years since we did CNY visitation. We always took the opportunity to travel. We travelled too this CNY but decided to leave only on Chu Er to avoid the crowd. Lil Shauna and I decided to "twin" this year.

Visitation was a lot quieter than what I remembered it was. We didnt even meet many relatives. The kids still had fun dressing up, collecting ang mos and snacking on all the CNY goodies.