This was my comment on a post from a new blog I recently found, the question was “Can ‘parenting’ be taught?”
When my husband and I came home from the hospital with our newborn daughter, we can only look at each other with the “now what?” look in our faces. It’s when the reality sinks […]

“Mom, what is an Ornithischian”?
This question woke me up from snoozing off on the drive back from our Ocean City day trip(that’s another blog). I said: “orni-what?” I can’t even repeat the word. My daughter(5 yrs old) asked again “what is Ornithischian”? I had no idea of […]

Merry Christmas is a greeting I grew up with whenever December 25th arrives every year. It’s been the usual words I say to everyone during this time. Before leaving my old home country, I wasn’t aware of people around me who didn’t celebrate the birth of a baby named Jesus. When […]

My little K joined her preschool pageant(it’s the re-enactment of the Nativity scene) and she was an angel(like she wanted to be). They sang 5-6 Christmas carols, which impressed us because we didn’t expect 4 and 5 year olds remembering all those songs. They all looked so sweet in their costumes. […]

A conversation with Little K.
Me: What would you want for Christmas? We ‘need to email your list to Santa soon’. Would you like dolls?
Little K: No mommy, I have enough dolls. I want glitter glue, play dough…… and a laptop.
Me: Did you say a laptop???!!

Ah! The smell of […]

“Mommy, Santa comes in through the regular door because he will hurt himself if he slides down the chimney.”
That’s the statement of my 5 year old daughter last weekend as we were decorating the Christmas tree. And she continues to say that Santa has a laptop computer which he uses to watch football while […]