Why Bother with Cooking

My previous maid left in April. I have a temporarily 19 year old maid (who claimed to be 22 in her passport) whom had been helping me for 3 months. And my permanent maid arrived last week. It was lots of training and adjustment.

Because of all the dynamics, I decided to cater food. The caterer sends me dinner from Monday to Friday in tiffin. I don't have to worry about dinner and the kids have lunch in school. Last week, I've decided to stop the food catering since the kids doesn't like the food. I'm cooking again! The new
maid is still learning. Today, I cooked meatball spaghetti in tomato sauce. After all the work, Lucas did not want the meat ball. He only wants the tomato sauce. Chloe did not want the meatballs and tomato sauce. Just plain spaghetti. Dominic was not eating at home. I was wondering why did I even bother. I should just cook plain rice and plain spaghetti for the kids, and they can have their gummies bears, smarties. M&M as dishes! :)

The challenge of getting my kids to eat well...

Can't Wait to be a Toddler

There is a saying that the second child will grow up faster and I find there is some truth in the saying.

Chloe is barely 15 months and she doesn't want to eat her baby food. She doesn't want to eat her cereal for breakfast. Instead she wants toast with jam.

She stopped eating her porridge and baby pasta. She is now eating the same food as the rest of us. Rice with soup, noodles (she even liked la la (clams) beehoon), pizza etc. Deciding what to eat is a challenge now that I have to consider food that Chloe and Lucas can eat and consciously reduce the salt, sodium, preservative.

Mind you, Chloe only has 7 teeth but the 7 teeth sure can do wonders.
Lucas was only into the adults food when he was 2+ year old.

Chloe is also talking a lot earlier than Lucas. She can said a number of words and the pronunciation is very good. She can says 'Momy, Dady, car, share, apple, one, bread, raisin, cheese, rotan, open, shoes, remote, cream, hair, more' quite well.