Chinese New Year Preparation 2012

As we are still struggling with our work load even until a day before Chinese New Year Eve, this year we had a very abrupt and simple preparation. At first, I was thinking to bake 1 or 2 types of cookies (pineapple cookies and seaweed crackers) but I really couldn't afford the time. In addition, Li Syuen and Li Ning were taking turns of the fever, I'm totally worn out.

But, just to let them have fun in baking, I bought a box of ready-to-bake butter cookies, a pack of chocolate rice and a pack of chocolate chip. We had a very short and simple session of baking and of course, we had FUN! Hubby joined in the FUN too!

This is OUR cookies! Though we BURNED 2 trays out of 4 trays, we were satisfied with our homemade cookies. We are going to keep it to ourselves as it might taste awful for others..(laughing out loud)!!

Then, we had our Chinese New Year shopping at Jusco and Tesco. We managed to buy some drinks, some mandarin oranges, some cookies and a hamper for my girls' nanny. Letting Li Syuen to arrange the mandarin oranges.

This year we cut down on the lighting decoration. We hung a pair of BIG GOLDEN lantern only. The lanterns looked golden during the day and during the night, it shines like MILLIONS of STARS! We like the lanterns and enjoy admiring it :)

Though we had a very RUSHING preparation, we enjoy the moment doing all the stuff together; from spring cleaning to decorating our house, buying all the stuffs, giving away all the gifts etc.

Now, my next challenge is preparing DESSERT for our very BIG family on Chinese New Year Eve. It is gonna be around 17 adults and 10 children. Eewwww...hope that they will like the dessert that I planned to prepare :) Wish me all the best (laughing out loud again)!!