HOMEMADE Zenzai (Japanese Red Bean Soup with Rice Cake) and Oshogatsu 2011 (Japanese New Year)

HOMEMADE Zenzai (Japanese Red Bean Soup with Rice Cake) and Oshogatsu 2011 (Japanese New Year)

Does anyone know how long the terrible-two’s last? Is it one year? Is it two years? Two and a half years? Over the weekend, Bebe E found a black ballpoint pen and drew a nice long dark squiggly line down the entire length of one cushion of our sofa. Nice, huh? And technically, she’s not even two yet. Scary. Of course, we have “coloring time” where Bebe E opens her little box filled with washable crayons and magical...

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Jai (Buddhas Delight) and Chinese New Year Experiment 2011

Jai (Buddhas Delight) and Chinese New Year Experiment 2011

  It seems wrong to start this post with, “Happy New Year!” as I originally intended, rather than, “Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day!” yet here we are two- going on three- weeks after we celebrated Chinese New Year, wishing all of you a Happy New Rabbit Year. And yes, some of you might be thinking exactly what Bebe Dada voiced. Last night, he bluntly announced that this post is “a little too late, isn’t...

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