“MOMMY! HE’S TOUCHING THAT AGAIN!” Usually, when Ane is about to tattle on Tad, it starts out with a gut-wrenching, ear-splittingly loud “MOMMY.” Or, recently, “MOTHER.” She has started calling me “Mother” and I’m not quite sure why, though I do find it amusing. More often than not, her tattling is actually something I do […]

So many things are grabbing my attention at the moment, I’m not sure if I can put together a cohesive blog post. First off, the earthquake in China. I happen to have friends who live in Chengdu, and after praying hard all day yesterday, I am extraordinarily relieved to hear that they are all well […]

Apparently, somewhere in the ballpark of $117,000 a year. It reminds me vaguely of the Everybody Loves Raymond episode when, after a money spat, Debra presents Ray with a bill for all the work that she does. It happens to be more than he makes in a year. At the end of the episode, Ray […]

Tad has learned to open doors. This is not good. Well, he’s been able to open certain doors for a while. The doors at Grandma and Gichan’s house, for example, are fair game because they have a lever-type handle on all their doors. At home, though, we just have old-fashioned traditional round knobs. He has […]