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8 bags of garbage
My family and I have been living in our house for over 5 years now. During that time, I have cleaned up my junk in the basement a couple of times. Our kids? Not once. Our basement looked like an organized mess. All of their toys (mostly broken) were piled up against the wall.
That changed [...]
No need to be competitive
So Lily put the kids to bed and was complaining that they were fighting.
Me: They like to compete with each other. That’s why they fight.
Lily: After a while it drives me crazy.
Me: Did you ever compete with your brother?
Lily: There was no need.
Wow.
"Let's go to a different cemetery"
Today we observed the anniversary of a close relative’s death by visiting the cemetery and leaving offerings (Chinese family members). It’s very respectful and Lily and I want our children to understand the reasons for this.
But my five year old girl is sick and the place we were going to is very cold. She would [...]
In between weather
Hot and muggy summer weather does not bother me. I once dragged Lily through Washington D.C. in 101 degree weather and did not realize she was suffering, I was fine. Summer in Las Vegas was great with it being over 100 and no humidity.
Autumn is very cool and New York winter never gave me a [...]
Tomorrow we all go to Disney World
All packed up and ready to go. We are all looking forward to this and we’ll be a week in Walt Disney World. The kids have been talking about this for weeks.
We wont be gone that long but two grown ups and two kids means lots of luggage.
I plan to take lots of pictures and [...]
Strawberries and downpours
Today the family started with this
And ended up with this
We got to pick strawberries in the morning and in the afternoon we set up a inflatable pool on the patio. It hit 90+ degrees today and we found out that the second floor A/C does not work. Good thing it rained; it is much cooler [...]
It was not all cod liver oil today
After his homework was completed, the boy finally rode his bike without training wheels.
Sunday his training wheels became bent so we took them off. You can see how it happened here. The culprit apologized but we had wanted to take them off anyway so it worked out.
He practiced for a while Monday but was not [...]
Better than washing his mouth with soap
My son will turn 7 this year and like many first grade kids, he has learned some swear words. He also learned that he is NOT to say those words.
Today I met him when he got of the bus. I began with “We spoke to your teacher today” and he quickly replied “Yes I know. [...]
To Digital SLR or not
I’m not a camera person. I have a really good memory for events and like to talk to people. I can’t show people what I saw but the telling is very entertaining.
This really means I take lousy pictures, mostly because my hands shake. Using a small camera like our Canon SD400 always get a poor [...]
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