Happy New Year

Since we'd already travelled for Christmas, we spent New Year's in Penang, in the comfort of our apartment. One of my New Year resolutions is to cook more frequently, since I have "ready" customers at home who relish my cooking. Heh... does wonders for the ego too, I might add. So to start the New Year off with a bang (pun intended), I decided to cook today. Pete was such a dear and he looked after Ethan while I dished out the goodies.

I'll have to admit I actually went kind of bonkers and dished out 5 dishes today, instead of the customary 3. The 5 dishes were:

• Stir-fry beef with celery and carrots (This was the first time I cooked this dish, let alone cook beef. I introduced beef to Ethan today, so since he only took a small portion of the beef, I used the greater part of the meat for this dish)
  
  

• Ginger & spring onion chicken
  
• Baked beans with eggs & bombay onions
  
  
• Stir-fry Baby bok choy
  
• Watercress soup

Of course, the dishes were served with a healthy concoction of red rice + Herbal Ponney rice + Energy Grain Mix (millet + quinoa + buckwheat).

Delicious or not, you'll have to ask Pete la...

So as we bid buh-bye to the year 2006, I fondly recall the many blessings God has bestowed upon us and the priceless episodes that have indelibly changed my life:

• I gave birth to our darling Ethan boy, sans epidural
  
• I changed diapers for the first time in my life. Now Pete refers to me as the expert...
  
• I experienced the beautiful bond of breastfeeding and am still cherishing the experience to this day
  
• Ethan's first giggle which was filled with such pure innocence and joy.
  
• I felt the wonderment of being a mother, and more importantly, of being a parent. Motherhood and parenthood really makes us appreciate our own parents more.
  
• ...And I witnessed how awesome a daddy Peter is. The way his face lights up when he looks at our little angel - that's definitely worth a million bucks.