Category Archive: Such Life
It was very foggy this morning in Queanbeyan. We managed to have a little play in the misty backyard before taking off to the work. Vivian was very serious about making sure I say the right word. “Mummy, it’s ‘fog’, not ‘frog’…..” she said. I can’t help having this mental picture about the rest of [...]
After we moved into this place, one of our friends told us to wait for a full year before we start any gardening work. I suppose I know what he meant by words, but only with a very shallow understanding about the true meaning of it. In the past few months, talking about summer, we [...]
Winter is here and everything is pretty dead, except virus. It seems everyone is taking the turn to get sick. I had my turn a week ago and I had to take a whole week sick leave, which was really no fun. But if you think everything in this season is not very pretty, you [...]
Though I admit that I do hope Vivian can turn out to be a person who can draw decently when she grows up, frankly I don’t really know how to teach her to draw at all. All I know is our house is full of her drawing/painting stuff since she was born. She has too [...]
I don’t think, from my memory, I have ever been looking forward to a winter season so much like this year. I feel like I have the warmest shelter from the cold, though my perception might not be what the truth is. I am just completely swooned by this little metal box. To me, it [...]
Our recent reading is Pamela Allen’s “Are your grandmother a gonna?” and “Grandpa and Thomas and the green Umbrella”. V seems never get enough of them, especially the Thomas series. Now she can pretty much recite the grandma story herself. She could say “Chuffa…chuffa…chuffa…”, then “Thoo Thoo…off they went”, which is so cute. When we [...]
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