TMA #24: Labor Day Weekend Plans

| August 29, 2008

What are you plans for the holiday weekend? It’s going to be a fun 3-day weekend for us!  Tomorrow, Abby is invited to a classmate’s birthday party.  In the evening, we’re going to Chuck E. Cheese’s (again!) with a friend and her kids, who are moving out of state next week.  And then, there’s the [...]

TMA #23: Better Than Peanut Butter and Jelly

| August 27, 2008

There’s a book called Better Than Peanut Butter & Jelly (it’s about vegetarian meals for kids). What do you think is better than peanut butter & jelly? This is a difficult question in that I can think of a long list of food items that are, in my opinion, better than peanut butter jelly.  Sushi [...]

TMA #22: Random Three Things

| August 25, 2008

What random three things did you do this weekend? Last Saturday, we celebrated my daughter’s 4th birthday with a party, which her classmates and our close friends attended.  Sunday, we went to Sea World to catch the Backyardigans, which was no more than a 5-10 minute live appearance plus a 20-minute video.  Sunday evening, we had [...]

TMA #21: Random Three Things

| August 11, 2008

What random three things did you do this weekend? This weekend, we drove off to Dallas for a weekend rendezvous with a high school friend and his family.  For two days, we feasted on home-cooked Filipino dishes: pancit (bijon and luglug), dinuguan (Don’t make me translate this one, please!), puto, lumpiang shanghai, caldereta, leche flan, [...]

TMA #20: Sugar

| August 1, 2008

What is your preferred type of sugar? It depends.  For baking, I used regular white sugar or brown sugar, depending on which of the two the recipe calls for.  For coffee, I use Splenda but I do prefer regular sugar.  I will have to train myself to start liking and using honey more often as [...]