I love the weekends

Saturday was too cold to do much. The low was actually in the 20's. Burrrrr! Since we stayed home most of the day and I had a little time, I made Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup in the crockpot. It's a yummy Taiwanese staple. There's a great place that serves it in Philly Chinatown and I love it there but I'm glad I can somewhat replicate it. It turned out better than expected and it was pretty simple, just like all other dishes that I make in my crockpot. I will post recipes and photos later.

Sunday, morning started out with Sisi and I running to Terhune Orchard to pick up some breakfast. I neglected going shopping on Saturday so we basically had no fruits, no eggs, no bread, and only a tiny bit of milk. Terhune Orchard is just 5 minutes from our house. It has a red barn and Si calls it Old McDonald's and starts singing the song whenever we pass by it. They have sheeps, horses, goats, ducks, rabbits, dogs, apples, and various pick your own fruits and flowers depending on the season. The also have wonderful apple donuts, and apple cider. They also make pies, and sells a cup of small world coffee for a buck. Small world coffee is from Princeton, our neighboring township, and their coffee is really good.
So this morning, we got apples, apple cider, apple donuts, brioche, and some crackers and coffee and rushed home to feed the hungry boys. We were all happy.

After that, we decided to paint Terran's room. Terran was sick last week and stayed home with me one day. But he wasn't that sick so we ventured out to home depot to pick up this and that. And he decided that he also wanted to pick up paint for his room. The color is called luscious mango. The kids and Pat painted happily for the most part. I was the project manager - I sat back and told everyone what to do. I'm good at that.

I changed them into Terran's old clothes. They all started with their own little area of the wall.


Then they moved over covering more territory.


Si insisted on taping her race bib onto her shirt with painter's tape. It kept getting in her way or falling off but she didn't want to be without it.


Si decided that she wants to stand on my chair from the kitchen. I love that chair and hoped it comes out of this without much damage. Terran decided to crawl under it.


Terran wanted to be on the chair, too so they fought a bit but decided to share. It was going well until Terran reached over her head and started painting above her. Then Si cried and said that he got paint in her eye. I freaked out, took Si to wash her eye, and put Terran in time out. That was the end of painting for the kids. After that, Pat finished off the work happily, without distraction....