sunday - grocery and ikea

grocery shopping is one thing mike and i like to do. when he was still here, it was a toka toka thing. team a - kuya & april. team b - mike and cat. team a would do the groceries + cooking. team b would do the dishes + house cleaning.

we love shopping for groceries
because i feel it's a therapeutic/stressful activity. hehe. therapeutic because you get to see new products. it also gives you a sense of fulfillment and ownership when you pull items from the rack and put them in your cart. stressful because you have to make sure you've listed everything and you didn't forget any item to save yourself another trip to the store.

to make it faster, we would split our list into two: mike would go for the miscellaneous items, and i would go for meat and vegetables. o diba? domesticated na domesticated ang dating? hahaha!

so when he visited last week, we went grocery shopping just like the old days. i loved it to bits. and pieces. :)

when we got home, i cooked 2 dishes that he misses. tinolang buto-buto and lumpiang mami (mami's recipe, thus the name). i made a mistake of adding bunga ng malunggay to the tinola. he found the taste odd. sorry naman! i am promoting good health by adding bunga ng malunggay to almost every dish that i cook. hahaha ipilit lang! but i think the lumpia was good. mami's recipe never fails :) mike helped me by "untangling" (how do you call it?) the lumpia wrappers. just like the old days (parang 60s lang ang old days a).

we heard mass with the gang in the afternoon. hawker for dinner and we went to ikea to shop for anything we thought we needed hehehe. we got some items that mike would bring home to manila. we also got items that we could use this coming christmas season.

this is my favorite! april and i have a project and it will be great!!! so exciting!