So, here's this week!

I wasn't feeling well this week. Well, to be honest, it was very hard. 

It's been only a month since I gave a birth to my second child, and having two children all the time around makes me very exhausting. It's rewarding at the same time though :)

Making lunchbox for my husband is another challenge too. I want to start get ready around 6:00am, cook the rice and start preparing all the other dishes, plus breakfast by 7am. Well, it doesn't go smooth as I wish. Sometimes baby is crying, sometimes I'm feeding him, sometimes my daughter is already up and wants to change her clothes and the list just keeps going on and on... Everyday has different routine, but more or less I secure the time to cook quickly and efficiently, writing scenario in my head of what to do one after another.

I only learn how to cook while I was in Japan until 18, so it is pretty much limited. I wish I had more time to learn from my mom, but I'm learing from her now through emails and videochat.

I have so many memories of lunchbox. Throughout kindergarten to middle school, I had school lunch. I mean, it's not like what you imagine. It's like something you could eat at Japanese restaurant here in the US. It was pretty awesome. Tasty, warm, healthy, well-balanced and lots of fun. Some special occasion like school trip, I brought lunchbox that my mom made. I still remember one morning of the school trip, my parents were up so early, like 5am to make onigiri, very special one. My dad, who is an architect, cut the seaweed into a shape of face and hair like me and paste them into the rice balls that my mom made. It was a teamwork, and I remember so clearly peeking the scene with dim light behind the door of kitchen.

I will share some recipes of my lunchbox little by little. It will be such a fun project! 

I am already thinking about next week's menu, and I can't wait to try it out :)