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所以又好幾天沒寫blog了. 每天不知道怎麼回事, 時間永遠不夠用. 今晚七點要去
Richardson School District 辦的REACH progam information meeting,
所以請老媽六點半回家幫我看小朋友. 有點傷腦筋不知道晚餐要煮什麼. 要是可以像
小叮噹一樣吃一粒大力丸多好.... 煮飯好累啊...

早上去UTD校園辦一些關於這學期畢業的事, 也去書店買了畢業袍, 還真貴, 要$70
多哩. 其實我根本不想去, 但是希之說要讓小孩也經歷媽媽的畢業典禮, 是對他們
以後有幫助... 希之真的想太多哩.. 也許這真的是我一輩子的最後一個學位,
穿著美麗的加冠袍走過教授們的面前, 也拍拍照, 也許真的不錯...

This afternoon I watched Thomas for Patti for a few hours while Tom
picked up Jacob for me. It was a lot of work to take care for a baby,
I am not sure if this is what I really want. A child is a lot of work,
and a lot of responsibility, and a lot of money. We will really have
to consider it hard before we decide to have one.

企煮飯吧...

所以又好幾天沒寫blog了. 每天不知道怎麼回事, 時間永遠不夠用. 今晚七點要去
Richardson School District 辦的REACH progam information meeting,
所以請老媽六點半回家幫我看小朋友. 有點傷腦筋不知道晚餐要煮什麼. 要是可以像
小叮噹一樣吃一粒大力丸多好.... 煮飯好累啊...

早上去UTD校園辦一些關於這學期畢業的事, 也去書店買了畢業袍, 還真貴, 要$70
多哩. 其實我根本不想去, 但是希之說要讓小孩也經歷媽媽的畢業典禮, 是對他們
以後有幫助... 希之真的想太多哩.. 也許這真的是我一輩子的最後一個學位,
穿著美麗的加冠袍走過教授們的面前, 也拍拍照, 也許真的不錯...

This afternoon I watched Thomas for Patti for a few hours while Tom
picked up Jacob for me. It was a lot of work to take care for a baby,
I am not sure if this is what I really want. A child is a lot of work,
and a lot of responsibility, and a lot of money. We will really have
to consider it hard before we decide to have one.

企煮飯吧...

今天是弟弟同學Mason四歲生日, 我們去參加他在MainEvent辦的保齡球派對, 還蠻好玩的.
剛開始兄弟二人都不太想玩, 一等到丟出第一球才發現很有趣, 就迫不及待等到再輪一次.
我們尚傑還打出二個strike哩, 真是太有天份了....弟弟一直等著要吃蛋糕, 我告訴他
要認真打完才有的吃, 他還真不賴, 一個小蘿蔔頭竟打了第二名(哥哥第一名woohoo!!),
我這老媽樂透了!!

Then we ate pizza, ate the cake & cookie, played a bunch of games,
won some little prizes...then went home happily. We spent 3.5 hours
in there!! Pretty fun event! American parents are willing to spend
tons of money for their kids' birthday parties. I can't figure out
why... I think it's almost competitive for them to do so. I figured
Mason's parents spent at least $200-$350 for today's party. As for
us.. we had a great time and spent about $15 for gift. :0)

今天是弟弟同學Mason四歲生日, 我們去參加他在MainEvent辦的保齡球派對, 還蠻好玩的.
剛開始兄弟二人都不太想玩, 一等到丟出第一球才發現很有趣, 就迫不及待等到再輪一次.
我們尚傑還打出二個strike哩, 真是太有天份了....弟弟一直等著要吃蛋糕, 我告訴他
要認真打完才有的吃, 他還真不賴, 一個小蘿蔔頭竟打了第二名(哥哥第一名woohoo!!),
我這老媽樂透了!!

Then we ate pizza, ate the cake & cookie, played a bunch of games,
won some little prizes...then went home happily. We spent 3.5 hours
in there!! Pretty fun event! American parents are willing to spend
tons of money for their kids' birthday parties. I can't figure out
why... I think it's almost competitive for them to do so. I figured
Mason's parents spent at least $200-$350 for today's party. As for
us.. we had a great time and spent about $15 for gift. :0)

Yesterday was Halloween night. I thought about going to the mall to
avoid the kids coming to our door to ask for candies. Since we are
christians we don't celebrate halloween because it's a holiday
associated with ghosts and other unholy things. But I decided we would
stay home and just treat it as a ordinary night. I told the boys with
a very serious tone that I didn't want them to go "trick or treat" for
several reasons. One being that we are children of God, the other reasons
like it would be very dangerous to knock on stranger's doors since we
didn't know who would answer the door(and the example of how a Japanese
student was killed in the 90s on a halloween day when he went to ask
for directions but was shot to death because that house owner asked the
student to freeze but the poor student didn't understand". This story
really scared the boys. I don't think they will ever want to knock on
people's houses. :0)) Another reason is that candies are BAD for their
teeth, and the boys are really good at protecting their teeth so they
decided it's a bad idea to go "trick or treat". So we printed out a
door sign which read "No candy! Sorry we don't celebrate Halloween. Have
a happy and safe night" and we taped it on the door and also covered the
bell with some paper. Amazingly NO ONE rang the bell, I was truly

Yesterday was Halloween night. I thought about going to the mall to
avoid the kids coming to our door to ask for candies. Since we are
christians we don't celebrate halloween because it's a holiday
associated with ghosts and other unholy things. But I decided we would
stay home and just treat it as a ordinary night. I told the boys with
a very serious tone that I didn't want them to go "trick or treat" for
several reasons. One being that we are children of God, the other reasons
like it would be very dangerous to knock on stranger's doors since we
didn't know who would answer the door(and the example of how a Japanese
student was killed in the 90s on a halloween day when he went to ask
for directions but was shot to death because that house owner asked the
student to freeze but the poor student didn't understand". This story
really scared the boys. I don't think they will ever want to knock on
people's houses. :0)) Another reason is that candies are BAD for their
teeth, and the boys are really good at protecting their teeth so they
decided it's a bad idea to go "trick or treat". So we printed out a
door sign which read "No candy! Sorry we don't celebrate Halloween. Have
a happy and safe night" and we taped it on the door and also covered the
bell with some paper. Amazingly NO ONE rang the bell, I was truly

Today is Friday again. Time goes by so fast. Today Jacob has been a
super good boy. He was so obedient, so loving and so perfect(he even
asked for piano lesson!!). I am having a cold I think. At first I
thought it was allergy, but now I am more convinced it's a cold. Sore
throat, lost my voice, and mucus in the back of the throat. Sigh. As
usual I don't really worry I am sick but I don't want to pass it to
my boys. We were going to Nokia for its halloween party, but Philip
said it didn't look too exciting so we cancelled it. We went home and
Jacob did all his homeworks, learning phonics and wanting to learn
piano. I didn't take it too seriously so after teaching him one song
I told him I was going to the restroom for a minite, but I then
decided to take a shower... but Jacob came to say "mommy i've been
waiting a LONG time"... I was truly surprised. So I quickly finished
my shower and went back to teach him some more piano. Evem Timothy
wanted to learn piano too, he learns things so quickly. But I didn't
really want to start Timothy on piano yet becuase he is really too
little and his fingers don't have enough strength yet.

For dinner Jacob ate a lot of salad, I was really happy because lately
he didn't show much interest on eating vegetables.

Today is Friday again. Time goes by so fast. Today Jacob has been a
super good boy. He was so obedient, so loving and so perfect(he even
asked for piano lesson!!). I am having a cold I think. At first I
thought it was allergy, but now I am more convinced it's a cold. Sore
throat, lost my voice, and mucus in the back of the throat. Sigh. As
usual I don't really worry I am sick but I don't want to pass it to
my boys. We were going to Nokia for its halloween party, but Philip
said it didn't look too exciting so we cancelled it. We went home and
Jacob did all his homeworks, learning phonics and wanting to learn
piano. I didn't take it too seriously so after teaching him one song
I told him I was going to the restroom for a minite, but I then
decided to take a shower... but Jacob came to say "mommy i've been
waiting a LONG time"... I was truly surprised. So I quickly finished
my shower and went back to teach him some more piano. Evem Timothy
wanted to learn piano too, he learns things so quickly. But I didn't
really want to start Timothy on piano yet becuase he is really too
little and his fingers don't have enough strength yet.

For dinner Jacob ate a lot of salad, I was really happy because lately
he didn't show much interest on eating vegetables.

這幾天開始練習打中文...速度當然還是混慢啦, 不過相信慢慢會愈來愈快底...

Let's come back to the English mode so I can finish today's blog and
go to bed before dawn :0)

Yesterday we went to the park after I picked up Jacob. It was perfect
weather, so I decided we've got to make good use of the good weather,
and not just stay home all the time. The boys had a great time riding
the bikes, they rode along the sideways in the park, on the grass, and
even in the shelter. There was another little boy who is 3 years old,
he followed my boys all the way, and the 3 of them rode bikes chasing
each other. I was able to sit on the bench and relax. It was just
wonderful. The boys tried to play on the playset, but realized they
have grown so much in the last year, and the swings and playsets now
seemed so small for them. It's really amazing how much my boys grew just
in 1 year. we visited the ducks, as usual, and saw some squirrels running
under the trees,...all was like a picture, calm and peaceful.

Today we were planning on going outside to play again, but grandma
Joanne called and said her molar teeth on the right upper side were

這幾天開始練習打中文...速度當然還是混慢啦, 不過相信慢慢會愈來愈快底...

Let's come back to the English mode so I can finish today's blog and
go to bed before dawn :0)

Yesterday we went to the park after I picked up Jacob. It was perfect
weather, so I decided we've got to make good use of the good weather,
and not just stay home all the time. The boys had a great time riding
the bikes, they rode along the sideways in the park, on the grass, and
even in the shelter. There was another little boy who is 3 years old,
he followed my boys all the way, and the 3 of them rode bikes chasing
each other. I was able to sit on the bench and relax. It was just
wonderful. The boys tried to play on the playset, but realized they
have grown so much in the last year, and the swings and playsets now
seemed so small for them. It's really amazing how much my boys grew just
in 1 year. we visited the ducks, as usual, and saw some squirrels running
under the trees,...all was like a picture, calm and peaceful.

Today we were planning on going outside to play again, but grandma
Joanne called and said her molar teeth on the right upper side were

I Ching came to visit from Germany and stayed with us yesterday. We had
a good time chatting.. I stayed up late and the whole morning was having
some neck ache. Took some ATP2 with water a few minutes ago and am
already feel better. Yesterday we went to drop off PeiHsuan at UNT and
pick up I Ching from her parents' home in Corinth. We went to 阿宗麵線 and
we didn't like the food at all. For some reason it didn't taste as good as I
went before. Then we went to Tom's for Big Tom ice cream, I didn't feel
it's very good either. Maybe it was something wrong with my taste buds!?

The boys were almost crazy running around and jumping up and down in
the house last night, I think part of it was the ice cream(too much sugar),
and part of it was having I Ching at our house, they were being "人來瘋".
After I sent them off to bed finally at around 9:30pm, they chatted to
each other for another 30 minutes before they finally dosed off.. Philip was
sitting outside of their room listening to their talking, and found it very funny
as they were playing some kind of game, that Jacob asked a question and
Timothy answered and Jacob made a ring sound announcing either the
answer was right or wrong.

I ching brought me 2 bottles of instant decaf coffee from Germany. It tasted

I Ching came to visit from Germany and stayed with us yesterday. We had
a good time chatting.. I stayed up late and the whole morning was having
some neck ache. Took some ATP2 with water a few minutes ago and am
already feel better. Yesterday we went to drop off PeiHsuan at UNT and
pick up I Ching from her parents' home in Corinth. We went to 阿宗麵線 and
we didn't like the food at all. For some reason it didn't taste as good as I
went before. Then we went to Tom's for Big Tom ice cream, I didn't feel
it's very good either. Maybe it was something wrong with my taste buds!?

The boys were almost crazy running around and jumping up and down in
the house last night, I think part of it was the ice cream(too much sugar),
and part of it was having I Ching at our house, they were being "人來瘋".
After I sent them off to bed finally at around 9:30pm, they chatted to
each other for another 30 minutes before they finally dosed off.. Philip was
sitting outside of their room listening to their talking, and found it very funny
as they were playing some kind of game, that Jacob asked a question and
Timothy answered and Jacob made a ring sound announcing either the
answer was right or wrong.

I ching brought me 2 bottles of instant decaf coffee from Germany. It tasted

Tonight after dinner I took the boys to Jacob's ROBI night at RISD Professional
Development Center. ROBI stands for Reaching Out for Bright Idea. It is a
creative program that help kids to learn creativity. ROBI teacher comes to
Jacob's class once a week to teach them to "think of bright ideas". Jacob
loves his ROBI teacher, and he thinks it's great. Tonight we got to talk to
the ROBI teacher, she says "Jacob is a very good student, follows directions
very well, listens to the teacher very well, and answers questions with
creativity". Indeed I was very proud to hear such things from the ROBI
teacher. What happens is that early next semester we as parents can
nominate our child and between the parents and tearchers we will both
fill out questionares and Jacob will take 4 tests, and between these 6
criterias, Jacob will need to pass 4 in order to be enrolled in the REACH
program(for gifted and talented children). For REACH program, kids will
be called out of the class 1 hour a week to receive enrichment learning.
I am sure every parent wants their child to enroll in REACH and every
mom and dad thinks their child to be gifted and talented.

I don't know what to think of Jacob. Of course I know he is a child with
a lot of potentials, but I don't want to pressure him with having to be
gifted and talented in order to succeed in life. I want my boy to grow up

Tonight after dinner I took the boys to Jacob's ROBI night at RISD Professional
Development Center. ROBI stands for Reaching Out for Bright Idea. It is a
creative program that help kids to learn creativity. ROBI teacher comes to
Jacob's class once a week to teach them to "think of bright ideas". Jacob
loves his ROBI teacher, and he thinks it's great. Tonight we got to talk to
the ROBI teacher, she says "Jacob is a very good student, follows directions
very well, listens to the teacher very well, and answers questions with
creativity". Indeed I was very proud to hear such things from the ROBI
teacher. What happens is that early next semester we as parents can
nominate our child and between the parents and tearchers we will both
fill out questionares and Jacob will take 4 tests, and between these 6
criterias, Jacob will need to pass 4 in order to be enrolled in the REACH
program(for gifted and talented children). For REACH program, kids will
be called out of the class 1 hour a week to receive enrichment learning.
I am sure every parent wants their child to enroll in REACH and every
mom and dad thinks their child to be gifted and talented.

I don't know what to think of Jacob. Of course I know he is a child with
a lot of potentials, but I don't want to pressure him with having to be
gifted and talented in order to succeed in life. I want my boy to grow up

On Sunday night when we went to Yiuman and Jubilee's house, they gave us a
5 gallon fish tank. It's a pretty new and cool one. We set it up that night
and today after my yoga class I took Timothy to walmart to buy some new fish
for our new tank. We chose 2 Red Belly piranha, they grow to up to 16 inches
long(pretty big!!), but now they are about 2 inches long, still baby ones.
They are supposed to be pretty aggresive, so right now we just leave the 2
of them alone in the new tank. We later went to Petsmart to buy some filter
cartriges and a fake plant and a decoration stone for our new fishes.
Jacob & Timothy decided to name them "Pingu" and "Pororo", after 2 characters
in 2 different penguin cartoons. Pingu and Pororo are pretty shy, they like
to hide behind the stone. Hopefully one day they will be trained to come
out and meet us.

For our 1st fish tank we also bought 2 goldfishes, one is white with black
spots, the other is gold and white. They have pretty fins and tails, and
when they swim they wiggle their bodies, very cute! All the 4 fishes get
settled to the tanks pretty well. Hopefully they will live a long life. (if
not, Walmart offers a 3-day money back guarentee :0)

Today for dinner I made 3 dishes: pork chops, lemon pepper garlic shrimps,