Summer

Birthday Girl

I forgot to mention that Lily celebrated her first birthday yesterday. You can see my post about her birth here and you can go to her blog to see pictures of this momentous occasion. I hate that missed it, and her pool party today, but I’ll be seeing plenty of her come the [...]

Looking His Age

Intense Chipmunk

“Five seconds of intense drama.”

I Think It’s Interesting

This probably isn’t interesting for everyone, but I’ve posted an article from today’s Toronto Star about the relaxed standards of Ontario’s education system. It reminded me of the “school” (note the parentheses of condescension) we teach at now and how we’re “encouraged” to only give B- as the lowest grade to make sure students [...]

It’s a Little Premature

I was sitting outside a small pizza parlour down the street waiting for my pizza pie, enjoying the warm sun and the rumpus of romping Korean moppets . I had a moment of quiet contentment, over here in my little part of Asia. Of course, then the kids caught sight of me and began inundating [...]

It’s Time To Go Home When…

Making Plans

As Thea enjoys an afternoon away from her husband, I’ve been cleaning out our closet/storage-disaster.  It seems that our parents’ tendency to hoard and stockpile useless junk is hereditary.  I threw away two-full-garbage-bags of gifts bags from various stores.  Why were we saving old bags?
Regardless, the joyful motivation behind this sudden cleaning spree is our [...]