Pleasant Day!!!

Today we went to Calf pasture beach again for fishing. This time we had company and even luck ;-). Two of MM's colleague were with us. When we went there it was almost noon.
There was a deck for fishing. It was a wooden deck and as it was unsafe for mm to play there, i took him to the nearby play area. In which, mm was interested in a slide. He was playing in the slide, while one of the girl (who was playing there) taught him how to hang in the top of the slide. thats it, mm started to hang holding a rod which was there for a grip. My heart skipped its beat for a while. It was some 8 feet tall slide. I took mm and moved away from the slide.
Then i took him to the nearby garden and we were catching butterfly. Again mm started his naughtiness. he picked some stones from the sand and started to throw them on the people walking nearby. Its again our time to move away from that place too.
Then i met a lady(Afro American) who used to talk with me in library and mm started to play with her kid, while i was talking with her. That boy was holding a ball and some more toys. mm started to snatch away his toys and ball. Hmm again we moved away from that place too..
We both went to the shore where they had laid some stone to walk. As we were walking over the rock, singing rhymes, mm tried to jump in the water. Again we moved. But this time, i went to his father. He was having a great time fishing and chatting with his colleagues..
Hmm, 3 hrs paused & I was really tired running behind mm in that hot summer day.
Then we both went into the beach water and was playing there. As mm started to go deep into the water, I dragged him out. Some 1 hr went like that.
Then, it happened. MM caught two fishes one after another.. One was a Flat fish and the other was a blue fish..
It was exciting to see the fishes. MM's colleague wanted the fish for dinner. Otherwise, i would have dropped it back into the water. (we dont eat seafood;-)) I never thought about fishing before. When MM asked me to come with him for fishing, i was not much interested.. But when we caught two fishes, somehow the sport interested me.. Fishing will be in our list of activities for the days to come ;-)... I will have enough energy for fishing and hope God grant me the energy to run behind mm...
I made some boiled corn and sundal for snacks. We nicely ate our snack. We were there for a while and started home. It was a fulfilling day, teaching mm not to hang in the slide, not to throw stones, not to snatch things from other kids and not to leave my hand and jump while walking and in water.. Hmm.. Being a mother is really a great JOB...

Chocolate chip muffins

All purpose flour - 1 cup
butter - 1/2 cup
sugar -2/3 cup
choco chips - 1/2 cup
egg - 1
vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon
Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
Milk - 1/2 cup

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Add sugar to Softened butter and beat the egg into it. Mix thoroughly. Now add the vanilla essence. Pour just half of the milk along with baking powder. Now little by little add the flour and mix it or we can use a blender. now add the remaining milk to the mixture. Now drop the choco chips into the batter. Pour the batter just up to half of the cup in the muffin pan. Bake them for 30 minutes in the preheated oven.

With/without icing, it looks/tastes great. I thought that this muffin will be mm's favorite instead, it became MM's favorite. Now i have to search for the fat free version...

p.s. :- Will upload the snap later, as it was finished, before i could take one...

Exploring..

After 15months, we had relatives at our home, last 2 weeks. So could not find time to blog.

We visited Brookyln bridge, Statue of liberty, Ellis island, Timesquare, Empire State building, Madame Tussauds, Sheffield island and to American clock and watch museum. Pretty long list isn't it? Except Sheffield island and museum, the rest we finished in 2 days. MM planned everything excellently and we had a very nice time n enjoyed alot.

We even went to Calf pasture beach for fishing. But we were not lucky, as there were low tides, not much water in the beach for fishing. Poor MM was upset. but he used the opportunity to learn the usage of fishing rod from a Jamaican..

Lots and lots of new happenings in my life. Thank god, I got a chance to see & enjoy all these things...

Rasa leela..

My dear friend J has given birth to a baby girl. Congrats J. Even my other dear friends, SH and SS have girl babies. I think my tiny superman is going to have a great time with them, when he grows up.