When we’re in Chinatown, I always seem to end up taking more pictures of my kids down the same walkway, in the same square. They love it there.
Category Archives: living
Brunch
Brunch. I love breakfast food any time of the day. Breakfast for lunch. It’s all about eggs,
and rolls,
and friends making their own yogurt parfaits,
and little ones getting bored with grown-ups talking,
and then heading outside to walk off the calories.
“Mom, can I take some pictures?” This is one of her shots. I’m so proud.
A day at TeaLula
Just a regular day, sipping tea at the tasting bar.
A little too much tea for him…
Reaching around the world
This blogging thing is amazing… while the world is pretty big, the internet community brings us just one step closer.
Hello to the locals in Washington DC, Kansas, Cary, IL, Rochester (NY and MN), Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Bakersfield, CA, Kenmore, Lynnwood, and Tacoma, WA, San Antonio, TX, Mountain View (not sure if this is a town or area in CA), Denver, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Indiana and Vancouver (US and Canada).
Hello to you nice people from around the world! Belgium, Great Britain, Montreal, Beijing, Egypt, India and Philippines.
Interesting searches leading people here: bacon and toast, muy delicioso, orange peel man.
Conversations with My Kids
Let’s start with the little one. Our two year old (two and a HALF, as I’m often corrected), Oliver, understands just about everything we say, but he’s a (little) man of little word. Until recently. Don’t get me wrong, there’s mom, mommy, dad, sister (pronounced by Ollie as “tsi-tser”, good Chinese “ts” pronunciation)… mine and “I DO IT!!”. We’ve just been having some interesting conversations. He’s been saying things like, “Nice day, Mom.” and “Nice eat (lunch at a restaurant).” Then there’s the occasional, “Why you push me, Sister?!”
At the grocery store, Ollie saw a package of pancake mix.
“MOM! Pan…cakes! Pancakes, mom make!”
“Really? Cool! You like Mommy’s pancakes?”
“Yah… bes… eff-er! (grin)”
“Did you say, “Best ever,” Ollie?”
“YAH! Bes-t ev-er.”
Wow. It seems he’s referring to food with “best ever”, like the other night it was the “best ever” chocolate milk.
With our seven (going-on-fourteen) year old, we’re already having those conversations after school that go like this:
“How was your day?”
“Fine.”
“What did you do at school, anything fun or different?”
“No. Same stuff.”
Ugh. I didn’t think it would be like this so soon, but we do have our good conversations from time to time. Abby really likes mystery books, spy-themed short novels, and she likes superheroes… or people with special powers. So, she asked me what sort of super power would I like to have, if I could have one. I said, “Oh, man, that’s tough. There’s so many to choose from.” She said, “Mom, if I could have a secret power, I would clean up the house by snapping my fingers so you don’t have to do everything and you can play with me.” Aww…
That was such a bittersweet answer. I know a toddler does monopolize a mom’s time, but as patient as she is… an “Abby” day is long overdue.
Mother’s Day 2009
Breakfast in bed has become tradition in our house. No, I did not eat all that bacon. We all ate in bed, so, yes, the sheets were taken off immediately after breakfast.
Toast, bacon, an ambrosia-ish salad, raspberry jam, Kerrygold butter (so good), a blob of Delice de Bourgogne cheese (even more delicious), Burnside Estate (black tea) from TeaLula and Ollie-friendly blueberry granola. Eastman outdid himself this time.
Cajun-seasoned scrambled eggs were hiding under the plate o’ bacon.
So excited to start reading these books!! But, best of all, Abby made a most beautiful stained “glass” picture of a flower and did a survey on Mom.
