I'm happy, happy, happy. Just got the material for Play-a-Story from Simply music. Can't wait to dig in and start learning the stuff. I may try to have a class this summer for it. But either way, will get my kiddos through it first and then think about incorporating it. Did I mention that I'm happy, happy, happy?

Okay, I finally did it. Bought the meat, ground it up last night and marinated it overnight. Stuffed them today and they are now hanging up in the balcony. There's a pretty steady breeze and so far it looks good. So unless so beasts gets to them (at least our dog can't) or there's some gusting winds we should be able to enjoy them in a week or two!

It was funny the other day when I was buying the pork shoulder, the gal at the check out was rather grossed out by the meat. Unless she's a vegetarian, I think she just doesn't realize how much fat she is eating when she eats sausages. Hey, that's what make them good right?

Oh yea, I made some sunshine cake (太陽&#39173 yesterday and I'm still beaming !! I'm still happy that I got it to work. I'll be bringing some to my friends, I think they'll appreciate them since you can't buy them here. Next I'll try to make pineapple cake (鳳梨&#37221 again when I have time. It just takes so long to reduce the pineapples down to a sticky glob but they are just so good fresh. A friend of mine brought me some the other day, yum...

Been busy with this that and the other and now that we are switching email in the next few weeks trying to move everything from old email to gmail. But once done, hopefully will not have to do that again.

Now with Chinese new year approaching we are trying to get some stuff ready. It always seems there's one thing or another. But we did take time out to watch Courageous last night! We did censor certain parts of it from the boys. It was funny that Nathaniel was perfectly happy walking away to play, but Christopher we almost insistent on seeing those parts. It's definitely their personalities coming through.

Glorianna just took her midterms. She did quite well on one of them and the other is yet to be graded. And now she's back to fretting over playing the flute for the Chinese New Year celebration and later band performance. But I'm really glad that she's having fun. Over the break she took up sewing again and made a dress and is partly through a skirt. I'm so glad that she is taking initiative, now if only we can get the same motivation for math and science

I'm glad that Nathaniel is doing much better with his math now. I've discovered that if I hang around him and talk to him from time to time to bring his attention back to his work, he really can zip through math. Oh, my little expressive.

Well, I'm going to attempt to make chinese sausage so tomorrow I'll need to look for a safe place to hang it that's away from cats, dogs, birds and whatever other mooch there may be.

Today I made some sunshine cake (太陽&#39173 and it turned out! I'm so happy as last time I tried it, most of the filling oozed out. I think I know the problem now as I didn't let the dough rest long enough so the gluten didn't relax enough for me to work with the dough. Hey, I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks

Well, I think I'll go and copy the recipe to the blog so I don't need to look all over for it again...