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January 29, 2008: Mean nuns and rulers
Comments: 25 | Categories: Family

Is it Catholic Schools Week or whatever in your part of the country? This past Sunday we were treated to an extra thirty minutes of blah blah blah because we were honoring the Distinguished Alumni from our parish school. A...

December 19, 2007: This is Santa's big scene
Comments: 9 | Categories: Family

It's almost 7:30 in the morning, but it's pitch black outside. Sigh. Friday we'll have the shortest day of the year and then begin the long turn around towards the light. Even if December 21st is a particularly rotten day,...

October 5, 2007: Today's events
Comments: 7 | Categories: Family

Phillip's brother and sister-in-law and their two kids are in town and you know what that means, right? Chinese food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Phillip's dad is swirling about the sky on a fluffy cloud of gastronomical joy. What...

August 29, 2007: So maybe her taste wasn't so great
Comments: 0 | Categories: Family

My aunt passed away this morning. In her memory, I am posting the Ugliest Bag To Ever Grace The Internet: Oh yes, I AM the ugliest bag in existence. It's like someone went and purposefully found the most hideous print...

August 22, 2007: Why Jackson will not be brainwashed by Saturday morning advertising
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chineseness , Family , Phillip

I hosted the moms group at my house this morning. Rather than bore you with my neuroses (my house! it is filthy! and furnished by the Late Nineties College Dorm Life Catalog!), my insecurities (will they eat my zucchini bread?...

August 12, 2007: Influenced
Comments: 15 | Categories: Family , When I was a kid

While my family was moving about southern Europe every couple of years, I had an aunt and uncle in Germany. My aunt, my dad's younger sister, was a teacher at a military base, just like my parents. She was married...

July 30, 2007: The most unreligious baptism post ever
Comments: 13 | Categories: Family , Jackson

Jackson's baptism was yesterday. It was a blessed sacred day, or it would have been if I hadn't had to change the poopiest most disgusting diaper in the universe moments before the main event, and I changed it in the...

July 23, 2007: Quick! He's sleeping!
Comments: 4 | Categories: Family

Finally- finally!- the baby is asleep, even if he's only asleep in the Moby, meaning I cannot do the dishes or fold laundry while he's sleeping. Bummer. Actually it's been a pretty good day. Last week was full of bad...

March 16, 2007: Oh you silly readers
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family , When I was a kid

Thanks a lot, Internet. I'm pregnant, not stupid. Like I'm going to get a puppy. Now. When I am 32 weeks pregnant. I haven't lost my entire mind. That said, I'm bummed to hear that Sara's bulldog is not a...

February 26, 2007: The end of the world as I know it, and I feel fine
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family , Places

Have I told you my parents are moving back to the United States this summer? For good? For real? As in, no more free European lodging for Maggie, forever and ever? [Insert moment of silence.] This new development is so...

December 27, 2006: It don't snow here, it stays pretty green
Comments: 3 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Project Baby Cheung

Did you survive? I did. I had to spend all of Saturday in my pajamas drinking tea and Robitussin to regain the voice I lost as soon as the guests left my Christmas party, but I was in decent form...

November 7, 2006: "Bah, humbug!" No, that's too strong
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family

Hello, Internet. Today your mission is to help me figure out what Phillip and I are going to do for Christmas. Maybe it's too early for people to be planning Christmas, they're still deciding on Thanksgiving, but I have always...

October 26, 2006: Tea-infused peanuts? Anyone?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family , Phillip , Project Baby Cheung

Just so you know, I'd rather be playing with my new copy of Dreamweaver, but I can't, because the fracking Dreamweaver installation wizard keeps asking me to insert Disk 1, even though there was only ONE disk in the brand...

October 23, 2006: Still here
Comments: 5 | Categories: Anxiety , Family , Places , Ponder

I thought a bit of an Internet Hiatus might do me good, but HA. THAT was a dumb idea. I was away, but I was Working. Here I am attempting to deliver the first reading at my cousin's wedding on...

October 9, 2006: Over the mooncake
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Project Baby Cheung

I was all set to write a big thing about the Church Stuff we did this weekend, and maybe a bit about the short visit from the Chinese Relatives, one of whom was bought (yes, BOUGHT) by Phillip's grandfather back...

July 24, 2006: I actually really like these people
Comments: 0 | Categories: Family

I intended to be productive this weekend, until the weather decided to KILL ME. You could find me lounging about the living room in various states of undress, getting up only to reposition the artillery of fans and occasionally whining...

July 6, 2006: Why can't you be more like me?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Family , Phillip

Yesterday my parents bought a house. For the record, let me state that my parents arrived in the United States late Friday evening. Saturday at 4 am my mother was driving around the neighborhoods looking at houses. By Saturday at...

June 29, 2006: Loads of love, Grandma
Comments: 1 | Categories: Family , When I was a kid

The first thing I thought of when my mom and dad told us that we were moving to Italy was: What about Grandma and Grandpa? I was ten years old and, in my ten-year-old opinion, terrifically mature, but I still...

June 19, 2006: Weekend in Hong Kouver
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome , Family

Phillip and I knew there was only one thing in the world his dad would want for Father's Day, so Saturday morning we filled up the car and headed for Richmond, BC, home of the only acceptable Chinese food in...

June 18, 2006: There are still 2 hours left of Father's Day on the West Coast
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My dad, even when he retires, even though he's taught fifth grade and seventh grade and been the librarian, will always be, to me, a sixth grade teacher. He has a podium, he reads Save Queen of Sheba and lets...

June 12, 2006: Went as far as I could, trying to get out of this place
Comments: 1 | Categories: Family , When I was a kid

Every Saturday morning, unless I went dancing all night (highly unlikely) or depleted several bottles of wine (unfortunately rather rare), I wake up around seven and go downstairs to call my parents. EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. Normal people sleep in. I...

June 7, 2006: Some beach, somewhere
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Family , When I was a kid

I just thought I would let you all know that there are 5 weeks and 1 day until I leave for Hawaii. I don't know why I thought you would find this to be as exciting as I do, but...

June 5, 2006: He wants to name our first child Wang
Comments: 1 | Categories: Family , Ponder

Yesterday Phillip and I bought a cooler and filled it with pop and water and beer and Mike's Hard Lemonade. I made brownies and chocolate chip cookies and we hauled all these things to Carkeek Park where some of the...

June 1, 2006: Cake, lack thereof
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Family

Yesterday I left work an hour early and picked up my sister Katie downtown. She didn't SAY so, but I know what she was thinking was this: "The graduation doesn't start until SIX. GAWD. Why do we have to leave...

May 31, 2006: Graduation day
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Ponder

This morning as I drove to work in a jet-lagged Dramamine-induced fog, I listened to the sappiest most miserable my-heart-is-broken song EVER, and I LOVED IT. I even sang along, in the embarrassing way that you sing along to a...

April 3, 2006: In honor of his favorite day, some stories about Alex
Comments: 0 | Categories: Family , When I was a kid

My Saturday was uneventful, the way I prefer my April Fools Days to proceed. This is most likely due to the fact that I am 1) a grown up 2) not living at home with 3) my little brother. In...

December 15, 2005: Merry Christmas, Love Becca
Comments: 4 | Categories: Family

Hi Maggie, This is the list Katie and I made. Please download and burn to a CD for our Christmas Eve listening pleasure. 1. White Christmas- The Drifters 2. Baby it's Cold Outside- NOT Dean Martin 3. Jingle Bell Rock-...

November 28, 2005: Next year I might order out
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family

Here is a fun Thanksgiving fact: At six in the morning, when you and your sister are barely awake, when you must unwrap the turkey and rinse him off and stick him in the bucket of brine, when neither of...

November 14, 2005: Maybe we'll have ham
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Family

One day I will write about something other than Thanksgiving. But not today. Over the weekend, when I was not shopping or eating dim sum or asking a drunk man at Home Depot to saw my trellis in half (yes,...

November 11, 2005: Gobble gobble
Comments: 1 | Categories: Family , House

All right kiddos. According to Lee and Alton Brown, brining a turkey is the way to go. As I honestly have no idea how my family cooks the Thanksgiving turkey (my mom wakes up early and sticks it in the...

August 14, 2005: I'll be Lindsey, Becca will be Tam and Katie will be the Monkey Girl
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Family

Right now I would like to say this site is undergoing a Big Major Re-Design, except I can't, because I have just spent an hour squinting at CSS tutorials and, if anything, I am getting DUMBER. Seriously. This is not...

July 7, 2005: O Loyal Readers, Please Don't Abandon Me
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , Family , Places

Here's another frightfully boring post, posted for the sole sake of those of you who have to work today and need something to do. I am not at work. I'm sitting at my brother and sister-in-law's dinner table checking my...

June 23, 2005: These babies are the cutest.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Family , Rants

A week from right now I will be just about landing in Atlanta where I will wait two hours before boarding another plane to Hartford, Connecticut. Yes, we are taking a redeye to the East Coast- a redeye with a...

May 4, 2005: Gurgle Goo Erp
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Family

In case you haven't dropped by in a while, I went to visit a baby this weekend. I think we can all agree that this baby? Is the cutest. Did you not notice the jammies with feet? FEET! (Also, his...

May 1, 2005: Love!
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Family

February 14, 2005: Hugs & Kisses
Comments: 2 | Categories: Faith , Family , Rants

It's Valentine's Day and I totally forgot to bring in my tub of heart-shaped sugar cookies I made with my grandmother this weekend. I hate it when I forget things. But it may be just as well because the frosting...

November 23, 2004: Home for the holidays
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , Family , Ponder

I watched five different news stories this morning about holiday travel. All bad stuff, of course- airplane security, traffic, bad weather, gas prices- but it still made me wish I was going somewhere for Thanksgiving. I have no shortage of...

November 12, 2004: Silliest girls in England
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , Family

***Figgy Pudding info can be found HERE*** Monday morning. Ugly Monday morning. We're on the couch, half awake, breakfast half eaten, sockless and tie-less, Colin Powell blah blah blah. And Phillip says, "Wanna call in sick?" And I seriously consider...

October 29, 2004: A litany of complaints. Also, a Birthday Ode.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , Family

All righty kids, I am exceptionally tired today. So tired that I wore my glasses to work and have endured the inevitable and annoying "I didn't know you wore glasses!" conversations with each and every coworker. So tired that I...