Funky Music Moves Me this Easter

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts meet me on monday, Monday Music Moves Me

Kids having fun

The kids getting the most out of the $2 kiddy ride.

It has been a really busy Easter weekend for me. My bread making class started over the weekend and it was great to be back in the classroom as a student. We made 3 different types of bread- baugette, loaf and bread rolls just out of four ingredients- bread flour, yeast, water and salt. I was amazed to learn that there is so many techniques which are used to make the different types of bread. By tweaking the composition of recipes a bit the type of bread which comes out of the oven can be altered drastically. It’s so different from baking of cakes. The kids had fun bonding with their grandparents who kindly agreed to babysit them while I was in class. I can’t wait for this weekend’s lesson 🙂

Here’s some funky music from 大嘴巴( Big Mouth) which never fails to make me laugh

1. Which three words would describe you best?

Caring, loyal and detailed.

2. Describe your favorite place in the whole world.
It would have to be right here with my family.

3. Sunsets, Sunrises or Full Moons?

I like sunsets the best . Here is one which I managed to photograph during our trip to Taiwan in February.

4. If you were to get reincarnated what or who would you want to come back as?
I’m not sure how to answer this question as haven’t really thought about this. Most probably a human and not an insect or plant.

Here’s my question for my visitors.

5. Bread or Cakes?

I’ll go with cakes at the moment till I learn more about bread making.

April 8, 2012

SOC: Easter and Dealing with Anxiety

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts Stream of Conciousness

It’s Easter Sunday and the kids are not very happy this year as they are not going to have any chocolate easter eggs. The kids are still down with cough and haven’t fully recovered so I am holding out on the chocolates for them. I hope they will be able to recover soon.

A few things have been causing me anxiety this week. It is not a good feeling and I hope that it doesn’t visit me that often. I don’t like playing the bad cop or have to be blunt to people who try to take advantage of me. I had some unpleasant encounters last week with some bloggers while doing my first co-ordinated giveaway. It was a learning experience and it is just not worth being nice to some who don’t appreciate your effort. I am not calling out on the persons but have learned that it is not necessary to please everyone and sometimes people just don’t click and it’s best to part ways instead of lingering around with friction all over. It’s my event and my rules and if there are any questions and things which are unclear about they should be voiced out before the event starts not when it was past the agreed on schedule. Anyway I treat it as a good lesson learned and move on. It’s no point being anxious to please everyone and inconvenience myself as a result of it.