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Happy Halloween!! This year, Buzz will be dressed as Kylo Ren and Ahgoo decided to not be a princess but rather be a superhero! She is going to be Owlette from PJ Mask.
We've had rain on and off the past few days but it's looking
like Halloween will be dry. As usual, we attended Halloween
festivities at the kids' schools. This will the last year we have
to attend festivities at two different schools. This year, rather
than carving pumpkins, I decided to drawa picture onto the pumpkin and
have the kids paint on them. I think they turned out pretty
nicely. Have a safe and fun Halloween and hope that you will get
the best candies on the block!
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October 30, 2016 |
Rather than posting tons of pictures,
I'm trying something new. I'm using the new photo feature on
my
iphone which takes all of my pictures from a group and composes a movie
for me. Click on the picture below to view it in Youtube.
We took the kids to the pumpkin patch at Irvine Park.
Our
good friend and his adorable little two-year-old daughter joined us for
the fun. It took her a little while but she finally warmed up
to
Buzz and Ahgoo towards the end.
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October 26, 2016 |
Update to my last post...after a
few weeks of getting used to the new school/activity schedules, I'm
feeling a lot better about things. Being a room
parent at
Chinese school is not as bad as I
thought. The soccer
practices and games are not too stressful.
During
Buzz's soccer practice I work on bike riding with
Ahgoo.
She's doing very well riding on her training
wheels. I've
even been able to take the kids on relaxing picnics
on quiet
Sunday mornings in our neighborhood.
Which allows
me to ponder about strange things again. I
had to
update my iPhone to yet another version of the operating
system. Just as I have gotten very used
to everything, they
literally have to change everything. I now have to push
the Home button to log in, instead of swiping. The
camera is
also accessed via a swipe, instead of a flick. So you
can imagine that I've been doing everything wrong the past
week. Is this a reflection of a
generation?
Is constant change part of the Millennial
DNA? I
suspect that companies like Apple, Microsoft, and
Google are
dominated by Millennials. Appears that the only
thing that have remained constant is the QWERTY
keyboard! Can
you imagine if they constantly change the key layouts!!? Even
then, I don't think it would slow down the texting
speed of
Millennials. But I do wonder why they haven't changed the
QWERTY
keyboard yet. Is it that sacred that even Millennials won't
touch
it? I thought that the file menu for all the Microsoft Office
tools are sacred too, but didn't stop them from screwing with
it!
Other thoughts, I'm hoping that when Buzz and Ahgoo have to learn how
to drive that self-driving cars are the norm. :-)
Happy
Fall!
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October 18, 2016 |
Ahgoo's doodle at a restaurant. She
loves to draw me, herself, and a cat.
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I
have to keep remembering my friend's wise words, that raising
kids
is like a marathon. But these days I can't help but feel
burnt
out.
Most recently, schools have started and Buzz
just joined AYSO. Ahgoo
gas also started her 3-hour lecture Chinese school, Buzz just happens
to get the strictest Chinese school teacher and first grade teacher in
both schools. They are both still in swim lessons.
The demands of
homework and "parental voluntolds" (when you have to volunteer for
things at your kids' extracurricular activities) are starting to get to
me. And Ahgoo's been asking for ballet lessons. All
this and Buzz is
still only in first grade, how can I last until they are both in
college???
Tell me, what do working moms do?? Last night, I made Buzz
home lunch
because he didnt like school's offering the next day only to
complete
forget to pack it for him the next morning. I was so
upset dropping
him off at school that he even said to me,"I t's
ok Mama. Do you need a hug?"
I know I am probably stressing myself out too much but I
constantly
feel like if I dont push now that I will not build a
good foundation
for the kids academically. How will kids in their generation
turn
out? Most kids today probably have the most educated
parents of past
generations. But can these highly educated
people repeat their
parents' successes and get their own kids the education
they've had?
Many of the parents in Buzz and Ahgoos' Chinese classes do not actually
speak Chinese themselves though they are full Chinese. Their
own
parents decided not to teach them Chinese, choosing to focus on their
American education. But now these people all want their
children to be
bilingual. What are the expectations of this new
generation? Me
personally, I am shooting for the stars for our
kids. I want them to
aim way above me and Mr. BAW. But I guess I have to
be careful not to burn them
out and not to burn myself out trying.
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