Margot has been drawing friendly monsters, and I’m really impressed. She drew this for Kim for mother’s Day.
Congratulations to my sister Katy on her marriage. and thank you for inviting me to officiate. Was a really nice way to kick off 2025. She is an elementary school teacher, and invited her students to make cards that she then framed and used to
Kim’s birthday is this month, and since her mom has been out of the country I knew she’d be craving Asian dishes. It’s always a little intimidating cooking dishes that someone grew up with, especially when it’s not what you cook regularly. But I was
Our ornaments aren’t color coordinated or anything. We get most of them from my mom, who tries to get them to match interests, and we get many of them on our trips. Our first Christmases we had a tiny tree, and only a few ornaments
Since the girls have the week off school, we normally try and travel for Thanksgiving. But Kim had some work and Margot had some party invites, so we hung out locally and I took the opportunity to make my first full thanksgiving meal in maybe
Margot is very excited to decorate for Christmas. Yesterday she decided to take a plain white ceramic dinosaur and make him into Santasaurus. The wings are so he can go help deliver presents. Santasaurus is now my favorite Christmas decoration
Margot had a very specific request for her birthday this year. She wanted an ice pop party at the store, and she wanted to invite her class from school. So instead of the normal parties we’ve done in years past, that’s what we did. I
I don’t think I should be a cake decorator.
I have video of her putting it together, but it might need some editing, it took over 30 minutes to put together. =) Thanks for coming yesterday. Let’s get together again soon so we can catch up more. Geoff
We had a great time for Halloween 2012. Went to the Pumpkin Festival. Went trick-or-treating. It was great.
In Chinese culture, one of the important celebrations is a 30 Day celebration. This is probably a cultural relic from the times when a lot of infants didn’t survive that long, so a new birth wasn’t celebrated until the 30 day mark. It’s typically food
My husband and friends took me out to celebrate my belated 30th birthday with a deep sea fishing trip. It had been postponed for 3 months for various reasons, so even the sore throat and start of a cold that I woke up with that
