First…I hope to download my daughter’s Halloween pictures today and upload a few of them here. The kids were peepin’ adorable this year. The girls particularly. Ling Shan did her face up with Halloween makeup and looked exactly like one of those Chinese demon masks. She was adorable. Ping-Ping was the cutest mauve pirate in…
Gah! I just realizes that Wednesday rolled around, and I didn’t post anything. But I have an excuse. I was reading. In particular, I was reading the manuscript of a fellow writer. Books, in all their glory! (Circle pointing at my book added by a friend. ;-) Writers write. We also read. In…
A very interesting piece on what happens when a family does have extra children in China: http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/china-s-secret-children-27056769.html
Just discovered two friends were living in their car. They applied for an apartment they could have afforded (barely) but were turned down on credit. I’m letting they stay here, but we already have seven people living here. So, they need something more permenant and quickly. Does anyone have suggestions of places we could look…
O’ happy day! Calloo! Callay! Miss B, the Cherubim’s wonderful teacher, who was arrested last year on charges of child abuse, is now free. The judge dismissed the case. While this has been a horrible experience for her, Miss B is just astonished at the extraordinary outporing of support from parents of children she has…
Wonderful friends from church arrived on Thursday with a bunk bed, a mattress, and brightly colored bedding for Ling Shan. It took us until yesterday to get it set up, but now the girls are settling in, much happier with beds than on the floor or downstairs. The first thing that happened with the bunk…
So, this morning, my son goes out the door with his father to go to school, and I realize that I have forgotten his lunch. He realizes it to. He calls me from school and asks for the lunch. I throw it together and jump in the car with the Cherubim. (Tornado Two is quietly…
Juss, putting his backpack on in the door, after the bus has already arrived, asks out of the blue… “Mom, what is the first movie, not first made but in time…” Mom, without hesitation or waiting to hear the rest of the question, while urging him onward down toward the street. “Phatom Menace! Now go!”…
Today, I am featured on not one but two separate blogs! Both great places to be! So, instead of a weekly column by me, I’ll post the links and you can visit the sites. The first is The Literary Handyman, a wonderful site for info about the writing life and occupation, maintained by author Danielle…
I think my all time favorite thing about Google is that it fills stuff in for you. If you forget a term or don’t know quite how to spell it, it will give suggestions. I use that ALL the time. I am so grateful for it.