Yes! After forgetting about my wedding anniversary last year, I forgot about my hubby's birthday this year!
Last Wednesday during my March school holidays, as I was writing the date "17/3/10" onto Raychelle's daily record book (a mini notepad which I use for recording the time & details of her daily food intake and bowels), I found the date very familiar and was trying to think hard why this date had certain significance... suddenly it dawned upon me that it's Darling's BIRTHDAY!!! Actually I did remember that Darling's birthday was coming and was hoping to do something special so that Raychelle could share the joy of celebrating daddy's birthday, yet it just totally slipped off my mind till the day itself!
"Darling! It's your birthday today leh!" I exclaimed excitedly, "but I actually forgot about it... hee...sorry!"
"Raychelle! Let's sing Happy Birthday for Dad Dad!"... so we sang or it was actually me singing and Raychelle "pretending" to follow the tune...hahaaaaa
Anyway, Darling's job was to end late that day, thus we won't be able to go out for dinner celebration. Rushing over to the NTUC located at the Rivervall Mall opposite our house before Darling left for his work (he helped to "jaga" Raychelle for half an hour), I quickly cracked my brain to think what could I prepare for a simple birthday celebration after his work that night. I decided to bake muffins to be stacked up on my Wilton (a US baking stuff brand) 24-cupcakes stand, as "birthday cake" for Darling. My first choice was banana-bran muffins, but the bananas in NTUC were still unriped (slightly "blackish"-skinned banana due to over-riping is best for baking), hence the next choice would be Wholemeal Carrot muffins. After buying all the required ingredients, I planned to give Darling a little "surprise birthday dinner" that night!
Thank God that my second sis Peidi came over to my place that day as she missed Raychelle and wanted to play with her! With Peidi around, I could at least "disappear" into the kitchen to prepare the "surprise dinner". After marinating the chicken tighs with black pepper sauce, I proceeded to bake one of my favourite muffins - Wholemeal Carrot Muffins! Within 2.5 hours in the kitchen, I was proud to whip out a tray of 28 muffins and a pot of roast chicken and spaghetti in black pepper sauce!
When Darling returned home from work, the mini "surprise birthday dinner" commenced....
Looks as if it's Raychelle's birthday...haahhaaa
I was quite surprised that Raychelle enjoyed the muffiI was ns as most children do not like wholemeal or grainy food.
Daddy's Birthday Dinner!
Happy 38th Birthday, daddy!
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