diary

7/25 - Monday Upstairs became a death oven! Moved my work monitor & accessories downstairs. I somehow cleaned up Jam's desk to have enough space to put down my laptop. I have hoarded a display port to VGI cable for years, only to use it today and found it didn't work :'D So I put my monitor completely in front of Jam's monitor and walled off his whole desktop setup. Jam was very nice to let me keep my setup here for the night <3 (It turned into a whole week.) Sabrina came by to deliver the books she borrowed from us. I transferred Kumon worksheet pictures to her USB. It took almost half an hour! Apparently Clement liked playing in our backyard in the meantime. Sabrina also spotted some plants she wanted to get cuttings of, including a fern like plant I was sure was a weed. One Chinese woman's trash is another Chinese woman's treature! Ella: "How fast can cats say mew. How fast can a crab write Chinese. How fast can a BIG crab write Chinese. How slow ...

 7/18 - Monday First day of Y camp. Somehow got up before 8am and got the girls ready. Jam was responsible for drop-off and pickup, apparently it was hard, especially for Ella :( Who returned home with a scrubbed up hand. She said it was from playing on the bar, other kids were ok, but she accidentally scraped her hand.  We had to go to meet fresh and have a no homework day to celebrate first day of Y accomplished. 7/19 - Tuesday Woke up at 7:30, showered and got kids ready by 8:30 while Jam had a meeting. About 3 minutes from school, Mimi asked if Jam packed lunch. Jam said yes, then looked around for the backpacks that contained lunch, and found nothing :') We went home, got the backpacks, and made it back just a little after 9a. About 3 minutes from school the 2nd time, Mimi looked around the car and exclaimed " where are our backpacks?!". Jam informed her they were in the trunk. They really were.  After dropping off the kids, pulling away from a hugging and crying Ell...

 7/11 - Monday At bedtime Ella said: "I want to show you how we two snuggle". Possibly because Mimi requested us to look at her and baba's snuggle many days ago. Ella held my hand and led me upstairs. At the middle of the stairs, she called back to Mimi who was still downstairs playing, "Mimi if you want to see us snuggle you can follow us upstairs". Mimi did. We walked to the top of the stairs, Ella stopped again and said "let's wait for everyone to catch up". We waited for Mimi. Then Ella led me into bed, hugged my head and snuggled my puff aggressively and kissed it all over. 7/13 - Wednesday Ella threw a tantrum when doing homework, and came up to hang with me. She was in a snuggle tantrum loop. Mimi followed and laid in our bed to do her IXL. Ella grumpily but quietly walked to her room and took a nap. While she was napping I drew a picture for each kid, one of me hugging Ella, and one of Mimi and me sitting at a table cutely. I cut them into ...

 7/4 - Monday My phone tethering didn't work on the laptop, so Jam took me to a Starbucks <3 while the kids watched TV with great grandma. I had time to work and make no progress X'D played a lot of pokemon on the drive and around the restaurant. The girls took turns performing tricks with their 海孩子 for me (they had some arguments, but mostly performed) While trying to tempt Gordon to interview, was reminded of my own interview failures :') Add oil I can  make it a year and get my paper moneyz. "That's what I want" started playing in the car. One night in Chicago hotel Ella sang its chorus repeatedly. When the song was at the chorus, Ella said: "this person must be singing of their real wish." 7/6 - Wednesday Jam's parents took the girls to the park. I talked with hao you, checked some slack messages, took a poop, and 1.5 hours was gone X'D At Michigan one day I opened Mimi's backpack front pocket because it looked plump, I found it st...

6/27 - Monday When we were packing, we warned the girls they might not be able to fit their stuffies. After I packed, Ella checked her backpack and excitedly yelled "I have a lot of room for my stuffies, MIMI we have room for stuffies." Ella ran to grab Mimi, after a while they both came back with all their stuffies, and confirmed they both had space in their backpacks. Mimi burried her face in mew and tun and said "we love our stuffies", and continued to stuff all their stuffies in their backpacks. I decided it was ok to take them since they loved their stuffies so much. The girls were so excited about plane taking flight! They slept well and behaved so well <3    6/28 - Tuesday As soon as we arrived we all wanted to nap. The girls had a choice to sleep together or in separate rooms. When I checked on Ella she was already cuddling her tun. I kissed her cheek, and she said "tell Amelia I want to sleep in the same bed." I said I would tell her, then she ...