MY LITTLE BOY TURNS ONE

How time flies, cant believe he turned one last week (this mama is crying). It has been a bittersweet on how things went, this first year is a milestone for both his mama and baby. I know from nothing to something on motherhood, and I am a proud mama to have a happy baby like him. Though not everyday he is a happy boy especially when it is time for feeding, it can be miserable. Anyway, we celebrated a little party with our little family. I planned to make one with friends later on after this summer vacation had finished.

I simply decorated the corner of the house with blue, red, and white to reminds him where he had celebrated his first birthday later on which is.. england!! but it can be USA too haha. As you may know, choosing baby first birthday party can be tough! there are so much idea and you just cant resist how cute it is. I made big fringe garland the other night for the decoration and baked some carrot cupcakes using betty crocker recipe (so lazy). Husband and I wrapped up the presents with blue, red, and silver gift wrap so it matched with the theme and put some old toys too. I bought the balloon in the morning when he was sleeping and it was another adventure. I did not think that it was a big job since our apartment is in the city center, I thought it would be piece of cake. But I was wrong, this windy Aberdeen made it a nightmare. It blew like crazy on the way back home, and the sadest part was the red balloon was popped out accidentaly by husband after I handing over it for just like a second. I was so pissed.

 

  

We waited until he woke up and then let him entered the living room. He was fascinated with the balloons, I told you it was a good idea, dear husband. We did skype in the morning with the family from both my and husband side. It is one happy day. Happy birthday my love, hope you had many wonderful birthday in years, hugs and kisses.

EID MUBARAK 2013

Finally here come the Holy day, Eid Mubarak everyone! For the record I had never been celebrating Eid for like 4 years in a row. The first three years, I spent all Eid and Christmast on the rig, can you believe that! and last year I had my precious one a night before eid, so no celebration for me. This year was a gift, I was able to spent it with my little family in Aberdeen though I missed my mom and dad back home. My sister sent me a picture how my big family from my mom side celebrated the victory, I felt so sad that I missed that one again.

Here, we have small Indonesian community who celebrate the Eid. We started a day early at the beach for Eid prayer with all Aberdeen moslem, then continue the gathering in one of Indonesian family. I was so blessed, I felt the the feeling that I had been missed. They served most of Indonesian culinary, such as lontong sayur, opor, satay, pempek, and siomay. The food was awesome, I might have to learn to cook it with the mamas chef here (you know). Once again, Happy Eid for all Moslem around the world. Cant wait to meet another Ramadhan next year.

LE CREPERIE DE HAMPSTEAD

Finally the booth is open with a reasonable queue. Rummor said it had like hundreds people was queuing for this crepes in winter, it means MUST TRY food! La creperie the Hampstead is opened since 1980 and it was famous ever since. It was located near by the Hampstead tube station, walked a little bit and you will find that stall in the corner of the pub with blue and green sign. 

I tried La Surpries des Caraibes, and cannot refuse to get another shot, it was just so goood and a lot! We were so lucky to be able to get one before we caught up the plane. It worth to try!

PS: I really hope they did not have to close down as the pub wanted it to.

THE HUMMINGBIRD BAKERY

Husband keep telling me about how good the cupcake from hummingbird back home and I was so thrilled to try one. I was looking for its website to find the nearest branch since you know travelling with baby shift your plan. Soho it was the easy one, but it was not as easy as I expected, we need to walk far down the road to find that pinky bird sign. We bought red velvet for me (I am a big fan of Oprah favorite cake), carrot cake for little R (yes, he want one too), and chocolate sprinkle for husband.

 

It was just too good and made me wanted to share with friends back in Aberdeen. Plan to had take away before our flight on Sunday but you know it failed! and you know what, I was spoiled with this London treats, need to find one in Aberdeen to fullfill my tummy.

GAIL'S KITCHEN

When we first arived at Hampstead, I saw this tempting bakery and the next thing in my mind was I need to try those bakery tomorrow morning. It served many kinds of bakery and it was hard to pick one. We finally made up our mind (I took more time than husband, of course) and bought cinnamon roll and raspberry cupcake, yummy. The bakery opened early in the morning and guess what! a lot of people were already there, it must have been a famous one. We wanted to try the coffee but too bad the machine was just broken that morning (what!), another time maybe. This tummy was full and we were ready for our London's trip.