Friday, 7 April 2023

Cass gave me a scare yesterday when she told me that she had a cold and headache. I told her to do a Covid self-test. The first time she did the Covid test, a faint line appeared on the ‘T’ window and seconds later the line went up and disappeared! I told her to do another test several hours later and it was a negative.

This morning she felt better but she did another Covid self-test just before leaving the house for school. Negative. Phew!

When she came home from school today, she told me that one of her classmates is down with Covid!

As of coming back from school today, Cass is feeling good with no more headache. She’ll be going for her figure skating class later.

Had this been the scenario two years ago, Cass and all of us at home would be ‘doomed’. We would be categorized as close contact and none of us could get out of the house for 14 days 🤪. I’m so glad that we don’t have to live those pandemic days anymore, with endless MCO, CMCO and RMCO and yet the number of cases were in the region of tens of thousands everyday.

Lunner for Cass today: air-fried turmeric Beacon chicken drummets and blanched broccoli. I also bought steamed pork, cauliflower and fried cabbage from our regular economy rice stall in the morning. Cass walloped six chicken drummets.

Of all the kitchen gadgets that we have, I find the air fryer the most useful. We use it every day, to toast bread, to reheat food and to grill chicken or fish. But I find my current air fryer a tad small for our family. I’m now eyeing a 2-basket air fryer so that more dishes can be whomped up simultaneously.

With rice added. Today I cooked a mix of organic wild black rice and 10-grain rice with Japanese sweet potato added. I love the glorious kaleidoscope of colours and textures in this meal.

Alycia and Sherilyn’s bonding time with granny in Ipoh today. Pix taken on my mum’s phone.

Mum treated them to a lavish lunch at V Life Cafe, a restaurant that serves healthy vegetarian food.
Alycia discovered this restaurant while cycling in the neighborhood this morning.
Yesterday they had dinner at Sushi Zento and lunch at Ipoh YMCA. Wish I was there to join them too!

The dish on the top right is my kind of meal – colorful, loaded with fiber and meatless.

Dehydrated apple slices.

For Ipoh standard, with a lower cost of living than KL, the prices are considered on the high side

But everyone enjoyed the food, with the people whom they love and that’s the most important part. The experience and the memories that the girls create with their grandparents are more valuable than any material possession or amount of money. Cherishing these moments and making the most out of them is what truly matters in life.

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Author: Shireen

I am a WFHM of 3 lovely girls - Alycia, Sherilyn and Cassandra. I am a health, fitness and clean freak. I am a freelance content writer and occasionally help out my other half in his food catering business. I also do product reviews and accept sponsored posts on my blogs. I hope you'll enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy sharing my day-to-day adventures and mostly boring ranting :P Welcome to my blog! :)

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