A Promise

I held his pinkie with mine and said, "Let's be best friends forever."

He looked into my eyes and let out the sweetest smile.

A promise is a promise, little boy. Mummy loves you. :)

The worst has happened

The worst has happened. Yesterday was a very eventful day and on top of that, I fell ill. Hubby is not around as he's working overseas and I am down with bad chills and fever as high at 39 degree  Celsius.

I don't dare to touch Ethan at all, for fear of spreading the fever to him. The worst has happened - not being to touch, cuddle and care for my child. But I know with my mum around, he's in good hands.:)

Mummy misses you very much, Ethan boy!

Bathing Hero

The little one would usually make a little noise or wail when we bathe him but today.... achievement unlocked! No crying when bathing. It was an enjoying bathing session for baby and I. :)

Let's do a fist pump, mummy! ♡

Ethan's First / Full Month Celebration with ecreative

Thinking that Ethan would arrive in mid Jan or earlier, we planned to throw a party for him to celebrate his first month. I looked into possible venues, caterer and decorations and was really excited about everything. Came 15 Jan - Nothing. 16... 17... 18... still nothing! By then I had given up hope on throwing a party as our guests would be too busy to join in the celebration since it is on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. As such, we decided to just give out cakes to announce and celebrate Ethan's birth.

We decided that we wanted to give out red eggs as that would be the best symbol of why we are even giving out anything - to announce and celebration a baby's birth. And we also decided to give out cakes instead of something unconventional such as cookies and durian puffs which I would love to have, but may not be well received by every one.

Price was also a very important factor as we had to give the packages to our families, relatives, friends and colleagues, so we wanted something that is presentable and yet not too damaging on our wallets. Of course, even with an attractive tag, it's very important that the items have to be reasonably tasty.

We did quite a lot of ding-donging around as we were met with some restrictions with our initial choices and we finally settled on ordering from ecreative and I must say it's not bad at all!

What we like:
- affordable packages starting from $5.90 (GST not included)

- it is Halal certified so we could give it to our Muslim friends too.

- friendly and helpful staff! I was served by Ruz via the phone and she was patient and polite even though I made some changes to my initial orders.

- clarity and efficiency. I received my invoice via email very quickly and it's important to me as I dislike being left hanging wondering if my order got through or if the order has been keyed in correctly or not.

- presentable packaging. It arrived in big lovely boxes which are sleek and cute. Totally exceeded my expectations.

- it is near to our home so we could do self collection easily so that only fresh products are distributed out.

- the food items are fresh and quite tasty. We selected cupcakes and they were soft and fluffy. The cream wasn't the best tasting but it was fine. The donuts also tasted good, not dense and stale. We were also happy that the red eggs were evenly dyed!

What we didn't really like:
- I didn't like and wasn't comfortable that I had to give my credit card details to the service staff over the phone. I would appreciate a more secured way of making payment.

- the cream could be make tastier by making it more buttery.

- the cupcakes were not all evenly made. Some had more cake and some lesser. Those lesser were levelled by putting in more cream but I didn't enjoy having so much cream in my cupcake. Less cream more cake, pls!

- ecreative gave us a lot of plastic bags which I think is meant for us to put the boxes of goodies in. But the plastics bags were not exactly the nicest looking around. To be frank, the box itself is quite sturdy so I don't think there's need for those extra plastic bags.

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On the whole, we are happy with ecreative, especially with regard to the box packaging. It would be even better of they could make slight improvements based on what we observed.