Bussines Mama

Just a few days left before i officialy become stay at home mom :D

I already had several plans on what will i do as a stay at home mom. Sure i won't just stay at home and do nothing. Since i don't hire a helper to do the house cleaning job, i'll do all the job by myself plus i have to take care of Asha all day. I think i'm gonna quite busy tough. But i'll manage to do other job. Yes, i wanna try to be a bussines mama whose doing her job at home while taking care of my baby. I even had the name for my future bussines, it ended with Enterprise, because it consists of several bussines lines.

For the first step, i plan to make an online shop that sells hijab, broche, accessories, and my preloved dresses. But i don't want to put too much money on it. So i have to find good stuffs in good price. Insya Allah, the online shop will launch very soon :D

The second step, i plan to make a birthday party planner for babies and kids. I'm still collecting the material to run this bussines. My goal is to launch this second line on January 2013, after Asha's first birhday. I'm going to make Asha's birthday party as my first project. Insya Allah :D

The third step, i plan to take the sewing class. Yes, i wanna learn to sew. It's been my dream from long ago. I wanna be able to make little dress for Asha, i want to sew cute stuffs such as doll, wallet, purse, bag and sell it. Further more i want to make party supplies or souvenirs for my birthday party planner bussines. Oh how i really want to make it real! But i have to wait until step one and two accompolished.

Are those too much? I always dream that one day i'm going to do things i'm passionate about, things that i love. Maybe my plans sound too high. But i'm going to make it real. Insya Allah. One step at a time to make my dream into reality. Amin.

I Found Dried Prune Here

One day i read article about prunes here. Another TUM articles yang sukses bikin saya mupeng pengen ikutan cari dan beli barangnya. Racun banget yaa TUM iniii..tapi racun yang baik. Hehe.. :D

Menurut artikel itu, prunes berfungsi sebagai antikonstipasi alami yang aman buat bayi. Loh emang bayi yang masih asi eksklusif udah boleh makan buah prunes? Nah ini hebatnya prunes, walau yang makan prunes itu ibunya, tapi bayi yang minum asi ibunya itu bisa juga merasakan manfaat si buah prunes ini. Bayi yang hampir seminggu ga pup, setelah minum asi ibu yang sebelumnya makan prunes, dalam hitungan jam berhasil pup dengan lancarnya. Hebat kan?

Wiihh..saya jadi penasaran banget deh sama buah yang satu ini walau ga terlalu yakin dimana bisa dapetin buah beginian. Kayanya kalo pun ada yang jual, pasti bakalan mahal deh harganya. Lagipula pup nya Asha masih tergolong lancar, jadi saya ga terlalu mikirin banget buah prunes ini.

Gambar buah prune matang di pohon dari Mbah Google

Nah hari minggu kemaren, saya, hubby, dan Asha iseng belanja buah untuk MPASI Asha di Carrefour. Biasanya kami beli buah di Superindo atau Griya, jarang deh sengaja beli buah ke hypermart gitu. Ga sengaja liat rak yang memajang dried fruit. Awalnya yang saya liat pistachios, walnut, dan macem-macem dried fruit lain. Ehh..taunya disitu ada si dried prunes! Horeee.. Seneng deh bisa nemu buah prunes ini. Padahal ga niat cari juga. Hehe.. Harga sekotak dried prunes juga ga terlalu mahal, sekitar 30 ribuan ajah.

Sampe di rumah, saya langsung makan si dried prunes ini. Penampakan dried prunes aga-agak mirip kurma, item dan berkerijut-kerijut *apaan sih ni bahasa*. Tapi rasanya ga semanis kurma dan ada asem2nya. Saya sih langsung suka sama rasa dried prunes ini.

Dried prune mirip kurma kan?

Tapi lebih gede sih potongannya daripada kurma

Ga lama setelah makan dried prunes, saya nenenin Asha. Dan bener aja, ga berapa lama kemudian Asha langsung pup loh! Haha.. Entah kebeneran atau apa. Tapi besokannya Asha pup sampe 4 kali loh, saking lancarnya. Padahal biasanya dia pup 2 kali sehari. Konsistensi pupnya juga bagus, ga cair. Wah beneran nih prunes bagus banget buat melancarkan pencernaan bayi tanpa bikin bayi sakit perut. Soalnya Asha pup dengan santai nya dan ga keliatan sakit perut atau ga nyaman. Totally recomended dah buah yang satu ini.

Eh tapi ko efek ke saya nya biasa aja. Haha.. Kayanya bakal nyetok sekotak dried prunes lagi nih :D

Durian Pancake

One favorite thing i do with twitter is searching good food, because i do love food and eager to try something new. Then last week i found this delicioso durian pancake, you can go follow their twitter @DurianPancakeD for further info. I just couldn't stand sitting there and looking at the drooled inducer photo like this,

Who can resist not to buy this? Not me!

So i told my friends whether they wanted to join me order this pancake, because it has minimum order. They'll deliver it to you if you bought 6 pancakes. It costs IDR 10.000 for original durian pancake, tiramisu pancake, and chocomelt pancake. It costs IDR 12.000 for durian strawberry, durian blueberry, and durian choco pancake. 

We ordered different flavours so we could taste each others pancakes. I bought durian blueberry and tiramisu pancake. It tastes deliciooosooo! I'm not lying. I shared my pancake to other friends who didn't know i ordered this pancake, and they all agreed that these pancakes taste yummy. They even asked me to order for them.

Asha's High Chair

High chair is one of my  baby's gadget wishlist. Asha already had travellite / portable baby box, bouncer, and playmate that i bought while i was pregnant. That time i wanted to buy high chair and baby car seat too, but then i looked into my pocket and tried to forget it. Haha.. :D

Luckily i have besties that seemed to know what i want. They gave high chair as a present for Asha. I was so happy! Thank youuu PharmaChix!! :D

It's been a while that i left the high chair inside the box. Because Asha hasn't been able to sit yet. But last week i took the high chair and asked hubby to help me arranged it. It was quite easy to set, we didn't  even read the manual book. And voila, this is what Asha's high chair look like,

I forgot to put the tray on it -__-

I haven't checked its features (i even forget the brand), but in a glance the features are :
- easy to fold, light enough, and not too bulky
- the seat is thick and soft because it has somekind of foam inside and wrapped by waterproof outer
- has buckle to prevent baby slip down from the chair
- the tray is wide and easy to remove
- has footrest so the baby's feet won't hang in the air

Overall, i love Asha's high chair. Hope she'll love it too :)

But, one high chair still not enough for me. *for Asha and her dad i guess it's more than enough. Hee.. :D
So i bought this portable high chair that can be fold and fit enought to put in my bag. This {Keitaro's) portable high chair i bought from Picobella IStore,

This is how the portable high chair look like 

This one is the high chair i bought for Asha

The reason why i bought another portable high chair because the high chair is not always available at the restaurant. And it's imposible for me to bring Asha's green high chair whenever we eat at restaurant. My purpose is to get Asha used to eat in  chair whether at house or outside the house. Remember how our parents used to carry baby and go outside for sight seeing whenever it's meal time? And still the baby more excited to play or see the sight seeing instead to eat. I don't want to do the same thing with Asha. Meal time will mean sitting nicely at her chair and finish her meal.

So i guess portable high chair is another longterm investment :)

By the way i bought another stuffs at Picobella IStore, since they have wide range of handmade products for baby and mommy, i couldn't stand just bought high chair for Asha. So i bought the key holder wallet like this,

I bought 3 key holders, one for me, two for farewell gifts

Next month will be the first time Asha eats her first meal. I hope Asha will enjoy her meal by sitting nicely in her new high chair :)

Lucky Go Sale!

It's been a while since the last time i posted on my blog. Too much to do at work and busy like bee during weekend. Lately we spent most of our weekend hunting sale stuffs on Ace Hardware and Informa Furnishing because they were on sale. My favorite word, sale! :D

First, it was Ace that on sale up to 70% off. We bought bathroom mirror and pack of light bulbs on sale price. Yeayy.. I've been looking for bathroom mirror that large enough, clean cut, in affordable price. Luckily i found it on Ace bazaar :)

Ace Hardware Bazzar where i found my dream bath mirror on sale

The following week, it was Informa that on sale. We really enjoyed our time at Informa. Even Asha had a good time too :) We tried cozy sofa, couch, and bed. How comfort!

We bought red sofa bed and single size bed with extra mattress. We're going to put the red sofa bed on the living room. It's comfortable, spacy, and bright. The single size bed made from iron, i picked the white colour because it looks cute in Asha's room. Lucky for us that we got mattress for free. Asha loves her new bed. As i put her on the bed, she enjoyed rolling herself on the bed. Hehe..  :)

Then we looked for some home accesories and bought wallpaper and present for my friend's baby. Here's the present i bought for the baby boy,

 The blue puppy babymate is so soft and fluffy. 

The giraffe height measurer with photo frame is so bright and cute

So it had been a busy fun weekend for me, hubby, and Asha on Ace and Informa. Can't get enough looking around and hunting furniture at Informa :)

ASI(P) Diary : Calculating ASI(P) Investment

Breastmilk is cheap. Sure, because i got it for free. My body built milk factory special for Asha :) But since i had to go back to work, i had to prepare stuffs to support my exclusive breastmilk programe for Asha. This is the list of my ASIP investment stuffs :

1. Two door refrigerator : IDR 2.500.000

LG Two Door Fridge to store Asha's milk only

2. Cooler bag : IDR 150.000

My GABAG Cooler Bag, pinky and eye catchy :)

Bought that and got two big ice packs for free. Saved IDR 30.000 :)

3. Cooler box : IDR 87.000

Puku Cooler Box, I have the blue one

4. Ice gel : IDR 35.000

Snowgam Ice Gel

5. Breast Pump : IDR 115.000 and IDR 465.000

 Little Giant Emily Manual Breast Pump, IDR 155.000

Medela Harmony Manual Breast Pump with Calma Nipple include, IDR 465.000

6. Nursing Apron : IDR 70.000

Nursing Apron

7. Glass Bottle : IDR 72.000 (3 dozens)

Bottle glass, IDR 2.500/pc

8. Bottle Nurser : IDR 195.000 (3 bottles)

Asha uses Playtex VentAir 6 oz wide neck bottle, she has the pink, yellow, and green

9. Bottle Spoon : IDR 42.000 and IDR 45.000

 Pigeon Bottle Spoon, IDR 42.000

Puku Bottle Spoon, IDR 45.000

10. Bottle Brush : IDR 25.000

Brush set for bottle and nipple, IDR 25.000

11. Thong : IDR 10.000

Bottle Thongs

Adding all the price, i spent less than IDR 4.000.000 to bought ASIP investment stuffs. It is a longterm investment, compare to formulated milk. I can even use all the stuffs for our next baby(s). Hee.. :)

I don't know how much money other mothers spend every month to buy formulated milk. Acording to my friends who gives her baby formulated milk since born, she spends at least IDR 1.000.000 per month to buy formulated milk. Whaattt??? It's a big deal of money to spend, while i can give the best milk for free.

Oh how i love breastmilk so much. And Asha enjoys it so much :)

The Sugarush Rainbow Cake

Today we (me and office mates) ordered rainbow cake by The Sugarush cafe. It cost IDR 23.000 per sclice. It's quite a big slice. The cake is dense, not too sweet, and covered by cheese cream. It has 5 layers of colors and they all are taste the same. I guess it's better served cool. And better served when you're very hungry, cause it will satisfied your hunger due to it's size. Hehe..

Rainbow cake by The Sugarush

It makes my day colorful in a hot sunny day like this :) I rate this cake 7 out of 10.
Next i'll review the rainbow cake that scores 9 out of 10 (according to me and friends).

MPASI Stuffs Wishlist

Asha would be 5 months old next month, it means just another month for her to start her first meal aka MPASI (makanan pendamping ASI). Here it is my 4+ months old baby girl :)

snuggling in her bouncer :)

I have to prepare some essential MPASI equipment for Asha. This is the online shop where i hunt MPASI equipment : Asi Bayi. This shop also provides breastfeeding stuffs essential. I had bought some bottles, breast pump, breastfeeding supplement, and cooler box on that shop. The price is cheaper than the baby shop at my town. 

I have listed some MPASI equipment at Asi Bayi, and here the list :

Takahi slow cooker

IDR start from 220.000

Pigeon food maker

IDR 200.000

Munchkin fresh feeding set

IDR 190.000

The wean machine

IDR 280.000

Boon squirt purple

IDR 180.000

Baby cubes 8x70 ml

IDR 110.000

Munchkin silicone spoon & Munchkin white hot safety spoon

IDR 69.000/2 pcs & IDR 90.000/4pcs

Skip Hop tableware set

IDR 135.000/set

What else do i have to buy for Asha's first meal? I guess my list already cost lot of money. Siiigghhh..