From All Girls Allowed: China is ordering local officials to stop using threatening slogans to enforce its strict "one-child" policy, state media reported. The government wants to ban slogans like: "Kill all your family members if you don't follow the rule" and "We would rather scrape your womb than allow you to have a…
The bad news: Electronic Beyblades don't work after they get wet…the official word from Hasbro and our experience. The good news: The lovely lady at Hasbro Online Customer Service Chat took pity on us, since Juss had used his own money and had owned it less than a day, and will send us a…
My daughter has been asigned Martin Luther King jr's line about having a dream about being judged by the content of our character. I showed it to her in a clip and tried to emphasize what this meant and how important this speech was. Ping-Ping, joking, said, "I do not have a dream. No dream…
John: "I hate to be more of a burden to you, Dear but…" Juss (age 9), from up the stairs. "Mom's not a (something I can't hear, sounds like Burden) She's married." John. "Burden. I said BURden." Juss. "OOOOoooo. I thought you said virgin."
Just watched some Firefly clips and was amused that I understood everything Caylee said…including the two Chinese words.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
My kids, with nerf swords and Lego shields strapped to their arms, are acting out the "Cut Scene" for their Yugioh card game.
Our local school is now selling…mulch. I'm just letting you know, in case you needed some…. Hmm.
Occasionally, I hear friends calling for armed rebellion because they dislike some government policy. This is a very bad idea. Saturday, we went and walked the Antietam Battlefield, which had places with names like the Bloody Cornfield and the Bloody Line Road. 23,000 Americans died there in one day—the worst day…
I have been meaning to blog about this since my first few days in China. Monkey de Luffy was HUGE in China. You could find toys, shirts, bags, shoes, all sorts of stuff nearly everywhere we went. One place even had little models of the Going Merry and the Sunny. Basically, One Piece merchandise was…