My celebration, my preparation.

This is my first-ever unusual birthday. Celebrators usually eat out and treat their friends or vice versa, but this time it's different. I already went out with my friends like a pre-celebration. But today, I celebrated it with my family along with my niece and nephews. My mom usually cooks or prepares for this day, but it has changed. To have a celebration, I have to do it myself. Well, there isn't a problem about that so I volunteered to cook something on my birthday. I already bought the ingredients in advance, but they weren't enough. That's why on the day itself of my birthday, I went out with my niece to buy some additional ingredients.


I woke up at 8 am because malls open at 10 am. I really intended to go there at an early time because I know that it'll take me almost half of the day to finish everything.


The Menu:

For the main course: Penne with red sauce,homemade garlic bread and hot dog on stick with marshmallows (it's common to have this during kids' parties. Mine is an exception haha)






For dessert: Chocolate steamed cake topped with red-colour white chocolate and pretzels stuck around it.





The Labour


I started cooking as soon as we got home which was around 12nn. I finished at almost 5 pm including eating in between ( I was so hungry and tired that I couldn't help it anymore. You can't function well if you're hungry, right? :D ). If you think it was exhausting to do that by yourself, well you're hell right. I was dead tired. But seeing the outcome of the dishes and family's reaction, I really felt accomplished and of course, happy. I just realized how difficult it is to prepare almost everything by yourself (My niece and nephews helped a bit. They were in charge of making some garlic bread.)


Thank God for today because it's a reminder of the time when I was born. I also feel grateful for the people who greeted and remembered my birthday. All in all, I'm happy! :)