If we had a good childhood, we want our children to have the childhood we had. As children, Mom would tell us about the huge lawn they had as kids and what fun they had running around and playing outside, and how she wished we had a lawn too. We didn't have a lawn but we had a garden, which was full of trees, vegetables, fruits, and flowers. My ( Read more... )

Apparently building a new house is like climbing a mountain. At first you are amazed at how far you've gotten in such a short time, but then just when you think you're almost at the top, there's another ridge to get over, and then another one, and the climb seems to go on forever ( Read more... )

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I love Christmas! I've mentioned it on my blog before, Christmas is a big deal to me. Normally I set up the tree on November 30. In the past, it was the no classes/no work day I could set aside exclusively for decorating the house. This year, when we got back from Punta Fuego on Nov 4, the tree was already up, with a star on top, but no lights or ( Read more... )

I was invited to teach Lia's class a craft this week. And I didn't want to just come in and have them paint a picture that will be kept in a folder and won't use any real purpose. I wanted to teach them how to make something, and then be able to use that thing and not just throw it away at the end of the day. I turned over several ideas in my head ( Read more... )

So. Last Monday I was feeling kinda useless, having not accomplished a single thing all day (I have this recurring issue about not being able to contribute to the household income. Which runs contrary to the fact that I love staying home, playing with the kids, making up things for them to do, and most of all, getting to sleep in every single day, ( Read more... )

Today, September 21, 2010, marks the first year anniversary of the day we moved to our "new" house. It was a memorable date not only because we spent the entire day loading and unloading a truck three (or was it four?) times to move things and furniture from two households into one, but also because Mike bothered to consult his Chinese friends to ( Read more... )

Eeeee! I've been wanting to blog about this for months! But the magazine editors asked us not to post photos on the internet until the March issue came out. Well, it's out! And Michelle got a copy yesterday (which I've been hoarding ever since! Sorry, Che.) And now I finally finished reading the the magazine from cover to cover, there is nothing ( Read more... )

Oh my poor neglected blog. To think it's the beginning of the year. Usually around this time I MAKE myself blog as part of a New Years resolution. Or I'm simply more organized and so have time to blog. Unfortunately, if Twitter and Facebook had overtaken my blogging time last year, this year, it's Farmville. This addiction is eerily similar to my ( Read more... )

I'm in bed but I'm awake. I don't want to watch tv. I kind of feel like reading but I don't have any new or pending books on hand. I do want to see the photos in the CD I had been given today but I'd have to get out of bed, go to the den, turn on the comp and sit in a very uncomfortable for buntis chair. Particularly right now. I'm in my super ( Read more... )