Mother's Day 2007

It hasn't been a good week for a couple of weeks now.

Mother-in-law needs to go for an op in end May.  To avoid tiring her further, we asked her to stop coming over to our place in the afternoon.  Instead, I fetch both kids from respective childcare/infantcare to bring them to her place for dinner.  Then home for the night around 8-9pm.  Quite tiring on the adults and the kids too.  Realised that when both of them fell asleep in the car when we had to leave for home earlier one evening just after 7pm.

Meanwhile, the weather has been swinging between scorching hot and torrential rains. Me and wifey getting under the weather and really no energy to plan for mother's day celebration.

The kids schools did help them prepare some nice stuff though.  Snowylass' had a nicely decorated trophy cup, a chain with her picture for the bag/phone, and a DVD recording of the kids from her school paying tribute to their mothers, singing and reciting in Mandarin.

Snowylad's was simpler, a cuppa-cup dressed like a rose and a card.

Wifey and I wanted to have a nice dinner by ourselves without the kids, I know, mother's day without the kids is unusual, but we do wanted a quiet time alone, and Snowylad has yet to learn to be patient after *his* dinner is done.  But Snowylass begged and cried not to be left behind and in the end, mummy gave in.  We told her though she owe us a big one, and we'll tag ourselves along when she's going out on a date when she's older.  Snowylass cheekily said, "But mummy, daddy, you might be sleeping ..."  I can't imagine what's going on in her soon-to-be-4 year old mind.

It was a last minute thing, and though mummy did feel a little bad leaving Snowylad behind with grandma, a nice sit-down dinner is just not possible with him at this time.  We're still training him.

Most nice eateries with nice ambience were fully reserved, something we didn't have as we were only mustered our energy on the spur of the moment.  Fortunately, we were early, so Sun with Moon gave us a nice alcove booth for an hour before their reservation was due to show up.

The dinner was quite nice (beef and crab), but what was nicer was the alcove design gave us an idea for how to create a nice dining area without using too much space, even awkward corners.

My only regret for that evening was we didn't have long enough for our dinner to settle so that I could try their dessert.  Maybe for our next celebration.