Last week, Mr. A gave a Chinese New Year presentation to M’s 1st grade class.  I had mixed feelings about it initially, but after M came home from another parent’s Hanukkah presentation saying “Mama!  We learned about Hanukkah today! We at latkes!  It was sooooo cool.  I wish I was Jewish!!”, I changed my mind.  [...]

For Christmas, we gave M a Nintendo DS hand held video game thingy.  In general, I think video games are kind of evil, but the feminist in me made me agree to buy one.  Over the summer, I kept finding M literally hanging over the shoulder of various boys watching them play their DS games.  [...]

We made a big decisions today.  We quit Chinese School.
The decision to quit Chinese School was not one we made lightly (though I will admit that once the decision was made, we were unanimously gleeful).  Since M started “chinese club” (the experimental program I mentioned in this post), we have been overwhelmed by the amount [...]

I am going to dive right in and start answering questions. Please feel free to keep adding to the list.  My rusty typing fingers need as much lube as they can get.
And for all of you who are so ansty for my MIL story, another few days might help me calm down enough to write [...]

Lately, that is what L has been saying a lot.
All things “chinesey” have been a big topic for M too.  Both girls are processing appropriate to their different developmental stages.  It is challenging to make sure that we are getting to the root what they are saying when they are saying (yelling) it.
Recently, when L [...]