Non-Cooking Fridays

It's Friday! I call it "non-cooking Fridays"   This is the one day out of the week I refuse to cook.

Being a full time working mom, my weekday is really busy.

• I get up at 5am
• Drop off my son at my mom's
• go to work
• come home and cook
• feed Jacob
• feed myself and hubby
• clean dishes (Hubby and I take turns with bathing Jacob and doing the dishes so I will never have to do both on the same night)
• Bathe Jacob
• figure out what is for dinner the next night, take things out to de-froze and etc
• cut up some fruit for dessert  (This week is grapes and Jacob loves feeling them to me)
• then it's off to bed for story time 
• and then finally sleep

So on Fridays I do not cook nor clean! Hubby takes me out to a restaurant or we order take out.  This way I get to spend some time hanging out with Jacob before his bed time.

I think every mom deserve to have a night off at least once a week.

Nothing like Momma's Cooking...

Everyone thinks their mom are the best cook in the world, and I am no different.

(although I can't ever imagine Jacob ever saying that about ME. I am a terrible cook, just ask my husband)

I LOVE my mom's cooking, from the seafood, to the beef, to the honey chicken (that my hubby loves so much) and to her SOUPS!

Soup are HUGE in Chinese culture, some medicinal, some helps skin, some will help you lose weight, gain weight, some for after childbirth, some to help get over colds and the list goes on and on.

I love all types of soup, Chinese, Vietnamese , Korean, American, Thai, loas, Italian, french... Let's just say "if it’s a soup... I'm trying it!"

So when she texted me yesterday asking me to stop by after work to pick up some soup, I was so there!

Jacob also loves soup, especially right now. He is teething and the only thing he will eat is soup mixed with rice. So this is perfect for him.

She made my all time favorite vegetable soup.

• potatoes

• carrots

• celery

• onions

• tomato

and some other stuff I don’t know about.

I would love to sit here and act like I know how to make this and give you all the recipe....but I have no idea what else she puts in it.

and bonus: she even got me a hello kitty lunch bag! My momma is the best!