DIY craft with kids

It's a trend of to do DIY craft honework with your children across schools in Hong Kong. You hear me right, DIY homework with your children, not with your parents,  now you see whose this homework is.

Anyway, it is still enjoying to do. This year, Linus and I made this DIY snow globe by a waste plastic container, a pine we picked up from the ground, and an old doll. 

We used glitters as snow. I used flour before, it then turned out not snowy, but foggy, I even suspect it was a smog!!!

About human history

"Whenever you look in history, the people at that time are influenced by loads of stuff that is new and from other countries.  We tend to think that countries, and the people who live there, stay the same.  But in fact countries are always changing: accepting new people and new ideas.  Soon, what was once 'different' becomes part of what is 'normal'.  It becomes part of what a nation is…… I reckon if we all looked back far enough we'd find our ancestors come from somewhere else other than where we are today.  We are all invaders and we are all settlers." quoted from Tyler, Stranger at the Gates.

This is actually a children book I read to Lucas tonight.  What a beautiful book!

Post exam depression

I can't believe Lucas has post exam depression.

'I am upset because the exam is over.  I want to do revision! I want Mami!'  This was exactly what he said.

Wait... why I was associated with 'examination'??

辛苦晒！

哥哥考試，弟弟在家很閒。他要我跟他玩，但我真的沒有時間。

弟弟突然靈機一觸，話： 媽媽，我諗住落樓下clubhouse玩，因為我會玩得好大聲，如果留響屋企玩會嘈到你同哥哥溫書，我唔想嘈到你哋呀！

嘩， 真係辛苦晒！

可愛的哥哥

吃飯時，哥哥笑咪咪地告訴我他門牙起來鬆鬆的，很快會脫掉。說時他又高興又害羞，臉也紅了起來。
孩子會為自己長大而覺得驕傲呢！

「懂」。。。你懂嗎？

今天陪哥哥溫中文。他無聊地在紙上畫了那個像印章的東西。
我：專心溫書.....你設計印章嗎？袁重花....那個像韋字的是甚麼字？
他說：這個東西不是印章，這是一個「懂」，你要整個正方形去看。
我：甚麼？？？甚麼是「懂」？
他：所有東西都是「懂」。糖是「懂」，花又是「懂」，朱古力都是「懂」。（然後將一整粒金莎放入口）
我：（語塞）非常玄妙。可否再解釋多些「懂」為何物？
哥哥：（在右邊畫了一個小圓，上面加一條粗線，然後指著）看，「懂」就是一個solar system。
我：（呆了）大師，你看通人世，修成正果了.....

Happy New Year

Hello everyone, wish you a joyful 2013!!