Earlier today, I was trying to figure out why the school thing is bothering me so much this week. 
I think it was triggered by receiving M’s preschool class photo.  I couldn’t help but figure out the ratio of white kids vs. kids of color.  It was 11:14  (13 of them Asian or hapa).  In other parts of the country, it wouldn’t […]

I have been thinking a lot about this post. 
It looks like (fingers crossed, knock on wood) we are not moving and we are going to stay here for the forseeable future.  And with that, I know that both Mr. A and I are unwilling to move to another neighborhood in search of more diversity for the […]

Whoops.  I meant to save that last post as a draft.  I didn’t realize I had posted it until I got a couple comments.
It was the beginning of me trying to figure out how to address the 5 posts I had linked to.  It wasn’t anything but my first thoughts and I was finding the […]

Since Mr. A and I started talking about moving, we spent a lot of time trying on different lives.  We would imagine what our lives would be like in different cities.  It was interesting to try to figure out how we could keep the good parts of our lives here and improve on the areas where […]

This morning, Mr. A called his dad to remind him to come over at noon to help M practice her Chinese like he does every Sunday.  Today was a little different because as soon as he answered the phone at 10 a.m., FIL said “Today is TEST for M at Chinese school.  You start studying […]