Orverheard at the Wright Household

So I came in from a Mom’s Breakfast Out to find that the children had gotten into the four different bags of orange-colored cheesie snake stuffs that Ping-Ping had picked out yesterday. Juss came upstairs and we had the following conversation: Me: “I see you guys got into the snacks.” Juss: “Yeah, it was easy…

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Long Pause

As you may have noticed, Wright’s Writing Corner has been on hiatus. I hope to get back to it, but not, alas, until after I am done with doing child care on Wed. morning…in about eight weeks. In the meantime, one brief “Overheard At The Wright Household” Juss on Wizard’s 101: “I’m tired of fighting…

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Needs Improvement…Sometimes

We got interm reports from the school yesterday…apparently four report cards a year are not good enough, the poor teachers also have to send interm reports half way through the semester. (The Princess’s teachers have to email them, too.) The elementary schools don’t use A, B, C, D, and F. They use N, S, G,…

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How Come Dinosaurs Go To Die?

My daughter wants to know what wiped out the dinosaurs. Our answers did not satisfy her, so she wants to go look in every country to find out if there are dinosaurs somewhere. She says if she raises one from a baby ‘maybe it no go to eat everyone.’ She also wants to know ‘how…

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Fun With The Princess

Tiffany Tang in The Storm Warriors   Last night John and I were watching The Storm Warriors, a beautifully-filmed Chinese martial arts movie with huge doses of awe and splendor. John does not care for dubbed movies, so we were watching it in Cantonese with English subtitles…even though I was trying to do laundry at…

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  A free Christian Science lecture on   What is Christian Science and How does it heal? Monday, March 21st 2011 at 8:00 p.m.   Bull Run Elementary 5301 Lee Highway (Route 29) Centreville, VA 20124-2126   At the light of Lee Highway (Route 29) and Pleasant Valley Road   An understanding of God leads…

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Computer Guru Types

I’m stymied here. I wondered if any of you have any ideas.   Problem: The boys computer crashed. I restored it and got online. I could connect to Gmail and Google, but could not reach Norton or a couple of other websites.   I tried to go to You Tube and was told that I…

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