Here’s a fun cake we just got, and of course ate!
Fun Apple Cake
January 10th, 2013Christmas Cookies!
December 20th, 2012Last week my two sons had their Christmas piano recital. I couldn’t go because I had to be the parent in charge at the ping pong club that Ahn still belongs to though he couldn’t go…
Anyway, they brought these cookies home with them, and I thought they were really cute and interesting.
Project Submission Guidelines
December 14th, 2012Sorry I didn’t have time to do this any better, but I know some students had a problem getting the file I emailed.
Here’s the photo I took of the memo. I hope that helps!
2012 Christmas Tree and House lights
December 6th, 2012Yeah! It’s that time of year again.
We usually put up our Christmas decorations – the tree, in house things like some candles and pictures, and the outside lights, the weekend after Thanksgiving. Because we had a crazy week that week, we had to wait another week to do the outside lights.
Then, when we started putting up the tree inside, we found out that most of our lights had died, and it was too late at night to go buy replacements!!
So, the tree stood at the top of the stairs looking a bit forlorn with boxes of decorations scattered about but nothing on the tree.
We finally got some lights, spent some time arranging things to get at least one good string that worked, and finally put up the rest of the decorations.
I think it turned out pretty well, and we had fun finishing it up.
Oh, we always do this as a family. This also was part of why it took so long to put everything up since we are all so busy it isn’t easy to have time together for doing it.
Here are some pictures of the tree and outside, plus a short video of the outside lights so you can see what that looks like while it’s blinking.
Busy as a Bee – drawing for class
November 29th, 2012I often draw in class when I need to illustrate a point and don’t want to use Japanese. I really believe it’s better to use English to explain English as much as possible.
Occasionally I run into things that I either can’t draw or haven’t drawn.
That happened to me this week when I needed to draw a bee.
I started off with a rose, which, frankly wasn’t great.
I surprised even myself though with the bee. I hadn’t tried one before, and like instances in using language I haven’t actually learned because I just jump in and start trying to say what I really wanted to say without wondering if I had all of the vocabulary, I jumped in and started, and well, it came out pretty well.
As I was erasing the board after class, some students came up and asked if they could take a picture of the bee, so I of course said yes, if they paid a small fee 😉
Okay, I said it was no problem, and snapped one of them myself.
Here it is:
