Satisfying Stay-at-home Saturday

It's been quite a while since I last spend my whole Saturday at home, doing whatever homely thing I want. So to be able to do so last Saturday is a miracle in itself. Mom and Dad was gracious to offer to take Noel to his swimming session so I had the morning to clean, sweep, sweat, all in my own company.

Started the day with cleaning the house, then work out with Paula Abdul, then to the waste of that hour workout, went for the long-craved laksa (thanks to someone who mentioned over and over during the weak that she's gonna cook her own laksa! hehe!) Then bought ingredients to bake some goodies. All these places are in the proximity of home so "going out" doesn't actually count. Back home, the little one came home from swimming hungry so made sandwiches and salad for the family's lunch.

I then prepared my No bake Chilled LemonCheese Cake and once that was done, and the kids were in bed for their nap, went to get goodies for our long awaited pre-Parent's day bbq dinner. What? Parent's day? Ya.... in our church and thus, in our home, we combine Mother's Day and Father's day = Parent's day :) Began preparing/marinating and since we're going to have a rather heavy dinner, my SIL and I decided to go through another hour of Paula Abdul. All of us, SIL, mom, Noel, Del and myself got going with Paula while Dad was preparing the fire outside :)

Bro was at the hockey stadium so while waiting for him to come back, I baked another batch of carrot cake!! Ya, ya, so much for not wanting to bake till there's someone to grate the carrots for me! But these were for my classmates and I plan to pack some for some mothers who I knew were alone (children are all away from home) and for a few single mothers as well.

Then it was dinner time!!!! :) The food qty was just nice; gearing more towards seafood - too bad no pix to prove that we weren't gluttons this time :)

After dinner, came the frosting of the cuppies - which i'm totally crazy about now :) Will that mean I'll bake more carrot cuppies? Not for now unfortunately! Maybe some other cuppies with different frosting :) The mothers to whom I passed the cuppies to were really pleasantly surprised and my classmates loved the cake.

Ended up having a really late night but I must say, that it was definitely a Satisfying Saturday.

Note on 9th May: Forgot my photos at home so will upload the photos tomorrow 10th - please do come back :)