Fruits n Veggies

Look at this glass..dont u think it is ugly? İ think it is..in fact,i personally feel that it is among the ugliest glass i have ever seen….

And i am the owner of that glass!! Hahahahah

I was in need of big size drinking glasses.. i saw these (4 of them).. thought…well..they were cheap (for a very obvious reason! Hahaha)…n so i bought it…i have been trying to break it for ages… but they just wont break!..only one managed to get a crack from the dish washer… so that is 3 more to go (so evil, arent i??)

But these glasses serve a wonderful purpose for me at home right now… they r the perfect container of this….

This bubbly orange yellowish colored bubbles

Which contains the important vitamins needed for growth esp if drunk immediately after being squeezed by…

This machine (yes! İt is back from the *machine hospital* :0)

Of a combination of these…. (oranges,apples n carrot)

To be drunk by these 2 kids
So that hopefully they will grow strong n healthy (with wonderful skin texture)
insyaAllah..

Who wouldnt want their kids to be strong n healthy right? Eating fruits....i dont have this eating fruits culture in me much... so i dont really make it a point for my kids to eat their fruits everyday...... Hatice Maşaallah... she asks for fruits whenever she feels like eating them... baddin on the other hand, even if i force him to eat his fruits....it will be sooooo difficult...(am guilty for spoiling him)...so what to do? what to do??

My solution: the above pictures...force him to drink his fruit juice! Alhamdulillah... he is drinking his fruit juice willingly..provided it is with a straw :0)

What about eating veggies? Kids eating green veggies? nightmare to make them huh? hatice again...she is easy..u tell her to eat something... she eats it... even if she doesnt like it... besides, at school, they do feed her veggies...since she usually comeshome with the *yemekhane yıldızı* (star of the eating room).. i am not so worried of her..Baddin? For yearssssssssssssit was only mixed soup...later..it was pilav (rice) with köfte n ketchap...but he will be starting school in a couple of months as well... he needs to eat his veggies...if i dont start now..he wont eat it later at school...

So for the last 2 months... in stages... i first forced him to eat his yoğurt... it was battle upon battle...how many times he had to get detention until he agreed to finish his yoğurt... how many times this yengeç (cubit) got to him...how many times i had to scream for him to eat his yoğurt... it was a nightmarish war..in which he realized after some time that anne will be as *inat* (stubborn) as he was... n that until he surrenderred n be a good boy... the battle would go on... YES! I won! now he is accepting his yoğurt everyday without much fight (even though he doesnt like it)...

Next: *kabak* or zuchinni squash u call it in english... ..it is good for helping u to *go* for ur big project... not so much of a battle... coz he kindda like it esp it i mix it up with yogurt....

his words :*köfte gibi tadı* (it tastes like köfte) hahaha it certainly does not..whatever!as long as he is eating his veggies...

Very recent project: Spinach....that is a bit tricky of course coz spinach is not a delicious veggie... very healthy

(simah singing..*i am popeye the sailor man... i am strong to the finish coz i ate my spinish coz i'm popeye the sailor man)

...but spinach tastes quite yucky... pahitttt...

So i make sure i buy the spinach from my fav baby spinach seller from pazar (the best spinach)...cook it as least as i possibly can (not totally soft n soggy like halil like to...too soft n the vitamins will all go away..) ..n feed hatice n baddin with yogurt (usually turks eat spinach with yogurt..a cultural thing)...

baddin said:*ispanak ....ispanak gibi tadı* (the spinach..it tastes like spinach* *chuckles...

u should have seen both of their faces.... hatice knew that she had to finish it... painfully n slowly, she did finish it..everytime...... coz she knows that spinach also helps her to let *go* easily... baddin too....painstakingly trying to finish his plate of his spinach dish..

i do pity them.. but i have to do this for their own sake...at least they r lucky coz they r not living in malaysia..else..i would have feed them ulam as well coz i strongly believe that ulam r very healthy esp to make ur skin not problematic..

Dear hatice n baddin... u may not see the logic behind me doing all these yet..but once u both grow up..u will thank anne for forcing u to eat ur yoğurt..ur kabak..ur spinach..ur fruit juice n whatever else anne plans to feed u both in the future hehehe... my poor liltle angels...:0).

One of my obvious aims is: to make my kids both taller than their mom!! hahahahahaha

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Dont forget to smileeeeeeee

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A day together

This missing u..
It is burning a hole in my heart..
Making me want to rebel…
Making me wanna say..*stay*
(As if it is possible..)

This missing u..
What is the benefit for me to scream?
Will it lessen this feeling?
This missing u..?

Maybe this missing u is not as bad as it seems?
Maybe it made u look cuter in my eyes?
For whatever precious time we have together…
Made me want to poses u more…

I am happy most
When i am not missing u..

But then…
The clock turns round n round…
This missing u…
Starts all over again..

I miss u….

It was those rare days yesterday when Halil was at home.We decided to pick hatice up early from school n went to our beloved shopping place (Carrefour where else! Hahahah)..i needed to buy loads of stuffs from there anyway…

I entered the pre school building with baddin while Halil waited in the car… She was in the art classes… she would finish in 15 minutes’ time.I sensed this excitement in baddin… that feeling i get everytime he goes there… he gets excited inside.. knowing not too long from now… in a couple of months…insyaAllah, he will be a part of that building as well.. a pre school student..just like his abla right now..

Nilgün Hanim ( hatice’s class teacher) wanted to talk to me about something… I asked her permission for him to join his sister in the class for a few minutes… permission granted…he rushed to find the red doorof his sister’s classroom…

A few minutes later, baddin came out with his sister.. Hatice saying… *anne..baddin burada* (Anne.. baddin is here).. i told her he would join her for a few minutes…again they went into the classroom…

Baddin came out of the classroom..happy… ..he watched the sister n her friends did the paintings of the trees (they planted the trees earlier of the day)..i discovered that hatice’s girlfriends found baddin cute (hahahaha girls will always be girls n look at boys)… n one wanted to kiss baddin on his cheeks..but was shy even with hatice’s permission… (hahahahahaahahahahah)…

It was also a celebration of phase one of our diet program..in which Halil lost 4 kilograms in 10 days n i had lost only one kilogram in the same period hehehehehe

Well.. Halil followed the diet… but as for me…*chuckles*.. i sort of deviated (loads) from the list hehehehe (see www.refcobass4.blogspot.com)..u see..i have no discipline whatsoever when it comes to food!!!

We took one day break from any diet list yesterday…

Anyway..phase 2 starting today..but Halil has decided to *relax* the list a little bit more hehehhe a relaxed diet… but we both agreed on afew things…

no midnight snacking (esp for Halil)
a significant decrease on carbonated drinks (if we cant stand it..light coke is possible)
very less or none at all usage of oil in the cooking..

We both generally agree to start eating healthily coz we both know that we wont be able to stick to a strict diet…it is a good start in my opinion….we desperately need to lose some more kilos but we both desperately love our food! Hahahaha we r indeed a hopeless case… :0)

These r what we had forced ourselves to eat.. in the first phase of our diet..

white cheese, 2 thin slicesof bread n tomatoes for breakfast

For lunch- 2 meat portion (this time köfte), vegetable dish (this timespinach), yoğurt, n bread with
unlimited green salad (with no oil included)..
This time i decided to steam fresh peas n cauliflower till they r half cooked..

My tea
My dinner (cauliflower with shrimp dish) (1 meat portion equalsto 5 shrimps)
n Yoğurt
n Salad (no oil)



n fruit portions... for supper

And hear yee hear yee… Hatice n baddin r both promoting trident splash! (Chewing gum) ..see? u dont need to be beautiful n handsome to promote a product :0) A cute promotional technique indeed… inside carreffour, the promotor asked every kids whether they wanna get their pictures snapped…. ….n each kid gets these stickers of themselves in grapic characters like these to bring home…here r Hatice n baddin! Enjoy!

My daughter
(ouch.. these r a bit too sexyfor my taste)

My son

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Their emotion..

Yesterday was sunday..Being cooped inside the house the whole day yesterday made the kids shrieked in protest of how bored they were... Halil decided to go to baba to watch the football match.. he said.. *u all come too*..(referring to me n the kids)..

Having to face the match on saturday night at baba..not liking football at all... 2 nights in a row is wayyyyyyyy too much for me..

But the kids decided to follow their dad.. no problem with me.. i had like loads of packing to do anyway..the soon to be former study room needs loads of doing anyway..

Baddin eagerly wore his wool hat.. scarf..winter shoes n was excited to go.. hatice was in the toilet...she was to follow the dad as well... upon learning that the dad would stay there till the end of the match.. it would be past her bedtime... n thinking she would be bored there on her own... she decided not to go...

Hence, instead of doing some work, i decided to hug my lil sweet girl on the couch in the living room while we watched tv n chatted n teased each other ... bed time came...the usual yassin listening...i hugged her on her bed for 10 minutes....n later told her that i needed to take a bath coz the dust was making my whole body itchy.. she was ok with it.. Out of the bathroom.. i took a peek into her room.. there she was in the dark..sitting on her bed...

crying...

i asked her why..

she said that she was missing her little brother...

hair still wet...still in my bath robe..I hugged her..i tried to comfort her....

Luckily, 15minutes later, halil n baddin came home..

And his first words as he entered the apt was...

*Anne.. abla..i miss u both*!

Allah nazar saklasın...

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