Third Culture Kid(s)

My anniversary gift from M. (for whom I got…nothing.  He’s remarkably hard to buy for and never says what he wants, dammit) was an Itzbeen - a wonderfully versatile timer for mothers who lost 50%+ of their brain cells during the birth of their child.  It lets you know how long “itzbeen” since the baby […]

To, um, me and M.  I’m into the self-congratulation, apparently.
We celebrated our third wedding anniversary with lunch at Todai, the cheesy Asian buffet chain.  M. had a craving for sushi (but didn’t want to pay $4/piece to have it, and the place we were planning to go didn’t do lunch on Sundays), so we went […]

We found out that our tax return - in which 2.0 and his timely arrival have been key players - works out to a substantially higher refund than we originally thought.  This means that we should be able to finance our trip to see M.’s family and have some to spare - yay!
So, on the […]

banging my head against the wall.
It’s been quite a weekend at Casa del M.  Among the highlights:

On Friday night - beginning of a three-day weekend for M. - I managed to get into an argument with him concerning my inability to do anything of substance on the phone.  Let’s just say that I have an […]

The good news: C. weighed in at 9.02 lbs yesterday, so we officially don’t have to go and get him weighed anymore. For those of you keeping track, this is 13 oz. over his weight last week (8 lbs. 5 oz.). Told you all he does is eat.
The bad news: The “diaper rash” […]

I’m finding that I’m experiencing most days like some kind of psychotic rollercoaster ride; I vacillate between feeling like I can do anything and that things are well under my control, and feeling like I’m trapped in some kind of unrelenting hell and doing everything possible wrong, wrong, wrong.
I suppose hormones could be partly to […]

From the Land of the Sick (M.), Tired (me), Hungry (C.) and Grumpy (also C.).
MM’s fine, if a little (understandably) needy.  But only a little, and right now she’s being entertained by - yep, you guessed it - Totoro.  I’d feel better about this if she were watching it in Japanese or something, but we’re […]

So to speak.
Got another 15 min. x 2 under my belt, for a total of 45 min.  Yay!
Still wading through the reading (it’s in Japanese so it takes a little time, although I know what I’m looking for and it’s not great long passages, which helps).  But there’s some good stuff for the paper/chapter, and […]

the night before last.  We’ve had TV for two nights, now.  It matters.
Did my 15 min., and since the toddler (who’s now obsessed with Totoro) is watching her “story” and the infant is sleeping in milk-addled bliss, I might try and get another 15 in before pandemonium returns.
I need to find some kind of widget […]

So, he did finally show up around 5:30 last night.  Everything went smoothly (and, despite his lateness, he really was a nice guy - played kickball with MM while he was on hold with the satellite company to activate the receiver), and we now have HDTV.  While M. can’t really see a discernible difference in […]