Third Culture Kid(s)

This is why all those baby/toddler classes cost so damned much.  It’s probably why Linda Hirschman can get away with whinging about all the mothers who should be doing something ‘better’ with their lives - it’s a whole lot easier to do something besides parent when you’ve got the money to hire people to help […]

[M. sees me walking around with MM ‘riding’ on my shoes]
M.: “Do you remember those cups with the strings attached to walk on?”
Me: “Yeah, those cups from ‘Romper Room’.”
M.: “‘Romper Stompers’.”
Me: “I desperately wanted some.”
M.: “I couldn’t ride them.”
Me.: [glare]
M.: “You desperately wanted some??  You desperately wanted some?!?”
Me: “Shut up.”

You know how when, after you’ve given birth, your boobs achieve the hardness of rock and hurt like hell, and then they “let down” and the milk starts to flow?
Okay, maybe you don’t. Hell, I barely know about it, since the whole nursing thing was a fiasco until MM was about 4 months old, […]

I hadn’t heard about this when it happened, but it’s certainly one reason not to move back to Japan.  Apparently there was a magazine published earlier this year that took as it’s theme “crimes by foreigners” - but even this was a thinly veiled excuse for printing inflammatory and racist vitriol for the exclusive purvey, […]

1. So, I went to the therapist appointment.  I’m of two minds about how it went, both colored a bit by the fact that it was mostly filling out forms and questionnaires.  On the one hand, I thought that she made a pretty good initial assessment of where I’m at.  At the end of our […]

I saw this over at Arwen/Elizabeth, and I always love a good meme.
Aprons (Y/N): I love aprons - mostly the Japanese full-body kind, rather than those little 50s Happy Homemaker kind. I don’t often wear one, since the ones I like don’t often fit me very well, but I should - I’m forever wiping […]

Tomorrow’s the first appointment with the therapist. She said to expect a lot of paperwork and just some preliminary talk, so I doubt there’ll be much to evaluate one way or the other. And I’ve been looking around at other people’s weblogs (a single mom of twins who’s also legally blind and the […]

Apparently, Centreville Library did an English/Korean storytime recently:
Monday, March 5, 2:00 PM
English/Korean Storytime. Stories, activities and a craft in both languages. Age 3-6 with adult.
I wonder if this is an ongoing activity? Sounds like a cool idea, in theory at least.

This morning, MM rushed over to me from where she was playing with her Little People (population: seal (1); lion (1); polar bear (1); exotic bird, aka: “Cheep” (1); monkey (1); elephant (1); dinosaur, adult (1); dinosaur, infant + egg (1); Hawaiian travelers (2); cave person (1); airline pilot (1); zoo groundskeeper (1 M.I.A.)) and […]

Penn Jillette did, and I heard it awhile back. It’s apparently older than I thought it was (2005), but I really like what he says; it sums up nicely my feelings about absolute faith in anything.
I believe that there is no God. I’m beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in […]