Preparing for Spring

Yup, soon will be the first day of Spring – Chinese New Year. In fact tomorrow is the big day. Tonight will have a filled up dinner with family, of course filled with good stuff, traditional home cook food, yay!!

Well.. had been busy preparing for the coming of the new year. Preparation here means Spring Clean!

But of course I being me – one who love myself very much – of course I also prepare myself for this festive celebration. That means – pampering myself of course! By pampering myself I mean a time to relaxation and beautification (ha!) Great huh!? Which I really did. I went for full body massage which I didn’t normally do each year, this year is different, as this lady is really good in massaging womb (peranakan – in Malay). It is good to have it. First to de-stress, another is to make sure that my womb is still in the healthy state.

Another pampering that I went for this year which is my first is legs scrub! Yup, one that  involve scrubbing, mask and pedicure, all for my lovely pair of feet.. hehe..

Next is have my hair washed and blown set, plus manicure. How could it be complete without manicure, right?

So there.. my pampering is done. Pampering is really my “me-time”, it is highly essential to have it. “Me time” is definitely what we women need to do for ourselves, only when you start loving and caring for yourself then only you can care and love other as how they deserve it, right?

Not that I don’t spring clean. I did!! I’ve cleaned up all those spider web on all the edges in the house. Hung up our curtains and bed-sheets, not cleaning la.. there is this nice automatic maid – Washing Machine!

There are still things that haven’t done though – mopping the floors. Most hard work actually done by my dear hubby (tee hee..). Well.. he is the stronger gender, right? Blah! One thing that sure was done by him is all those decoration in the house. Yes! He did that! He has hung up the lanterns, the red pineapple, those little small gold decorations.

So much into his decorating work

Even the boys also got affected by hubby love of decorating.

Preparing the red pineapple

Other than decorating the house, hubby also make sure that we all got new clothes for the new year.

Just the other night after getting himself two new shirts, he was trying to get some opinion from the boys on which one looks better since one was picked by me. Guess what Calvin said?

“This one look nicer if you are taller.” Hahahaha!! There goes his dear son’s answer who obviously going to be taller than him. Fortunately he didn’t take it seriously.

We also try to get some more Lunar New Year mood by visiting the night market in Gaya Street. Which ended up drizzling and we had to get some shelter before heading home.

Gaya Stree Night Market

I hope the year of Dragon will bring us a better year and of course much wealth!!