I am trying to work on a post about the ethics of adopting from China, but it is slow going because it is such a complicated question.  Anyway, since it seems as though M is the topic of the week, I thought I would talk a bit about her new Chinese class.
I recently signed M […]

Stephanie asked about the word hapa that I used in the previous post.  I keep forgetting that there are a bunch of new people here who haven’t heard me explain this before.
I tend to use "hapa" when I am writing because it is much less hassle than typing out "half Asian," "Asian European" or […]

I stayed home with M today, though she was only marginally sick.  She was coughing too much for me to send her to school (fearing bad-parent judgement after the day we sent her and she puked), but no so sick she couldn’t go with me to the mall.  After swinging by H&M for a few […]

I suppose every relationship has one of those arguments. 
You know, the one where you tell your partner something because you just know you are right? 
And then he ignores you and continues doing the thing because he knows he is right? *
Yeah, we have one of those.
For us the argument was me telling A […]

You know what is even more fun than  a kid who is up until 3 am puking?
Taking several loads of puke covered clothes and bedding downstairs, only to discover that the pipe that drains the washer is flooding the basement.
And discovering it because your sock clad feet are sloshing around in sewage.
Ah, these are the […]