Out of her initiative, Darlene said she wanted to make a Chinese New Year card. So, she started drafting and drawing on the paper. She asked me, ”mommy, can you help me colour?” Previously, I would had said colour it yourself, mommy’s busy. This time, I was delighted to lend her a hand and so we coloured and had a good time talking. She explained about her drawing : a stairs, a boat on the sea and a dolphin surrounded by the wall. We chose the captions from the newspaper and I helped her to cut out the words. Finally, it’s done and together we wish all of you ….
“Blessed Chinese New Year. May you have good health, peace, hope and love. May God’s blessing be upon you and your family.”
The chinese caption means “Health is the greatest wealth”, “Healthy” and “Gong Xi Fa Cai”
Few days ago, I thought of doing something special with Darlene. I asked her if she would like to make cookies for the chinese new year celebration. She was so quick to say yes! and Woo Hoo! I’m going to make cookies. Her enthusiasm and excitement was the key to our 1st attempt of making chinese new year cookies at home. It was really fun. She was very serious and responsibile to carry out her part i.e. opening up the paper cups, mixing the cornflakes, scooping up and decorating it with colourful ’sugar rice’. Well, she did complain tired and sleepy…but we made it!
So do drop by our home for some of our homemade chocolate peanuts butter cornflakes cookies during this festival.
If you are unable to come, try this recipe…
Step 1 : Melt the cooking chocolate in double boiled way.
Step 2 : Mix well with crunchy peanut butter
Step 3 : Mix well with light crushed cornflakes
Step 4 : Scoop up small portion and put into the paper cup. You may want to decorate it with some ‘colourful sugar rice’
Step 5 : Let it cool down adn enjoy yourself.
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