Our standard uses for avocados are as a topping for chili or tortilla soup or layered in sandwiches. Pretty boring, huh? Anyway, because of our limited usage, and because I buy our avocados at Costco (which normally means five large ones in a bag), sometimes we […]

With the weird Winter weather so far, we haven’t had much snow accumulation until early January. Alex had fun shoveling and going just plain crazy in the snow. 😀

Being a sensory-sensitive child, Alex doesn’t appreciate Asian snacks much, especially the really pungent ones. So last night, when Keith and I opened the spicy cuttlefish snack that we bought from AsianSupermarket365.com, Alex found the smell (from across the room nonetheless) so stinky and offensive that he asked “Are you trying to make compost?” […]

Hillside House was a fun build – in fact, you can’t go wrong with any of the Creator houses.

Can’t believe it has been only three years since Alex first got hooked on Lego. Since then, his Lego collection has grown considerably, mainly with the Lego Creator line (which we feel you get the most bang for the buck with its 3-in-1 feature). For Christmas, […]

That’s what we had for breakfast and lunch last Saturday. The pancakes and sauce were a match made in heaven – boy, did we stuff our faces with them (it wasn’t a pretty sight). *grin* In our defense, we hadn’t had pancakes in a while and the […]

Instead of our regular lessons yesterday, I helped Alex make thank you cards for our family and friends – to thank them for his Christmas gifts. I explained to him that it would be nice to let people know that he appreciates their thoughtfulness. I know it would have been so easy to […]

So, a couple of days ago, I learned that the first day of Chinese New Year this year will fall on January 23rd. My first thought was “Oh, another year of not celebrating it with my family (back in Malaysia)” which immediately made me feel […]

What did you guys do? We didn’t do anything special to start our year. Keith spent five hours i.e. the whole afternoon 😛 installing our brand new dishwasher…the dishwasher that we bought online from Lowe’s before Thanksgiving, only to find out that the local store didn’t […]