Daily Life

Very busy these days, now  I finally have time to talk about my trip during the Spring Festival. The trip is generally good, but not perfect. We get up early the day staring the trip, Ride in a subway train to go to the express train station. I have never travelled to the station by subway before, so we underestimate the time that should be tanken, we didn't expect riding the subway even takes twice time that of driving by car, maybe because of too many stops. Unfortunately we Missed the train, so it cost us ¥3000 more to buy the plane tickets. It's the first time the boy take a plane, very excited all the way. Then we enjoyed several days with the other family, the traveling is good, kids are happy, but that not last long, on about the fourth days the boy got a fever, so in the next 7 days if trip he didn't have a good mood, always irritability and did not feel like eating, I was also upset too. Anyway, the bad things is also a part of traveling, I told myself, so we tried our best to make fun. We riding, we boating, we Feeding seagull, I can see the boy liked it but not excited, because of the pain in the mouth. He especially likes feeding the seagull, there are many seaqulls in Yunnan province, because the place is warm during the summer, so lots of seagull will migrate here in the lake, Very spectacular. I can see there are many different [...]

It's traditional Lantern Festival, Chinese will eat Glutinous Rice Balls and watch the lantern on the day. We haven't brought the boy to enjoy the lantern before, and we decided to take him this year. There are several places that can watch the lantern, we choose a park. The park needs a ticket so there [...]

I'm a little lazy these days, Procrastination. I really enjoy Baked sweet potato these days, the sweet potato is some special type, very soft and sweet, especially suitable for bake in the Oven. I bake it for 1 hour at the temperature of 220 Centigrade. Really delicious, it's just the taste I love. I uploaded the pictures in my wechat, many friends asked why it is baked so well, I told them so they also bought the sweet potato on line from the shop I suggested. They can also bake very well according to my advice. That is great!

Today is Christmas, we went to the theater   yesterday afternoon, then Celebrated Christmas Eve at the park yesterday night, the kid seems enjoyed himself all the time. Christmans Eve  Today there is a celebration held by the kindergarten, we need to get up early in the morning, but the boy seems very sleepy, when I want to wake him up, he keeping on crying, crying when getting clothes, crying when washing face, crying when having breakfast. I just suddenly breakdown, I shouted at him and locked myself inside the living room. His dad has to take him to the kindergarten alone. I'm seating in the bed, don't why the kid is so greedy, all the weekend time is for him, why he is still not satisfied? I started crying, feeling so sad. The memories of my childhood just suddenly came to me like floods. I never had a toy in my childhood, my mother thought it was a waist of money and I guess our family was poor at that time? You can't imagine I never went to the restaurant before I went to the university. Of course no Christmas, I knew nothing about Christmas at that time, we just celebrating the Chinese spring festival and I hated it. My mother would always stress to me at the spring festival that we were poor and had no money to buy good things. I don't know if we were really poor or she just said that to motivate me to study hard? But I really don't like that, I think I was deprived of confidence and happiness by her actions. What's more, I hated the spring festival because at the new year eve, my father would always drink with his friends, my mother would always go to sleep early, and the food of that night would always be dumplings, only dumpling. Then at the new year, my father would push me to visit all kinds of relatives, pretended  to be loving them so much. The relatives would give you some lucky money which is the traditional action, and my parents would  ask me to refuse several times before putting the money into the pocket which they considered is a polite gesture. Of course my parents would give their kids back, normally the same amount of money. My mother would always take the money out of my pocket when coming home, said the money was actually the money she gave away. I hated almost everything in the spring festival, seems not a sincere celebration but just a fake play and I have to play with them.

  It’s a really beautiful sunny day, blue sky and white clouds. There is a scientific play for kid, lots of interesting experiments, like Cola fountain, Smoke ring cannon and Foam Sea. I’m not sure if the kids can understand, but surely they are very interested, that’s enough, I think. Sunny Day [...]

A really nice weather weekend, must going out. Just procrastinate in the morning, no hurry. We go the Amusement Park on Saturday and Aquarium on Sunday. The Amusement Park has been decorated to the Christmas theme, lot of Christmas trees can be seen. There is a new Vintage car attraction, we waited for half an [...]

These are my lunch of the past week, usually 4 dishes for 3 people, and the staple food is rice. Sometimes I like sea food porridge, but not this week. Chicken, potato，fungus, meat and pepper Chinese cabbage, corn, carrot, Wax gourd, Towel gourd and meat Patty, long bean, egg, pepper and Chinese cabbage Cauliflower, pork ribs, Cucumber [...]

This weekend we go out to visit Chen Clan Ancestral Hall and have a fun in the mountain. Because there are too many cars at the Scenic spot in the weekends, it is really hard for parking, so we choose to go out by subway. But it seems the boy don’t like, or even hate [...]