Jung, Pei & Rebecca

主臥室的地板做完，感謝辛苦的老公！不過房子代修的工程清單可是落落長，院子的自動澆花系統，小浴室還需要加工，加上我媽媽，未來妹夫跟妹妹要來看我跟我家的寶貝女兒，清潔整理工作也很多。雖然我是跟整修家一點也不熟，親愛的另一半在那流血流汗的作苦工，我也得幫幫小忙，噓寒問暖一下，有時還得昧著良心，說說白色謊言，稱讚老公辛苦的成果，反正修家是他的愛好之一，不是去泡舞廳呆賭場，或者癱在沙發上做個茶來伸手的老爺子，我也沒得抱怨，或多或少還幫我省個工錢，別看北美，人工貴的要命，一小時40~50USD是小case，還怕他半小時可以做完，硬要收你一小時的工錢，所以只要他大爺做的高興，我也樂著，反正總有一天，小徒弟也會變師父，那些不掩於瑕的地方也就不用計較太多，沒有之前的失敗哪有現在的成功。

只是讓我更辛酸的是，我家有女出長成，越睡越少，白天最多只睡2小時，那小的又皮的要死，一看到我在寫文章，不理她，就裝可憐，又親又抱的，各種招式都用上，要我陪她玩，看著那天真可愛的臉，當然女兒第一，小孩子就是要帶她玩，不然只把她丟在電視機前，自己做自己的事，不是跟給保姆看沒兩樣，她也長得快，再兩年，你要陪她玩，她都嫌了，還是把握現在，好好珍惜那短暫的母女時光。

基於以上理由，雖然有滿腦子的話要寫，真的沒時間寫文章，所以po文的時間會很不固定，大家也就看得隨意。

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We spent Chinese New Year’s supper at Stephen and Yi’s place. The menu was DIY dumplings. That’s probably one of the best social ice-breaking activities you could have. Pei and I had no problems with the dexterity required to make dumplings (afterall, they all look and taste the same once they are cooked!). However, we did stumble on one subject that people were talking repeatedly at the table: which school is your child attending?

It turns out that choosing the “right” school for your child can be a whole subject of study by itself! Like students enrolled in the wrong classroom, Pei and I didn’t have any clue about this topic. All we could do was to focus on our dumplings and nod when people mentioned this or that school.

Public schools in California are divided into different school districts. Each school in a given district is then assigned as the default “home school” depending on your home address. As long as the school meets the minimum curriculum dictated by state, it is free to teach any subject and/or use alternative teaching methods. Because of this, the quality of the school vary considerably even within the same school district. Some parents will go to great extend to ensure that their child gets into the best school available – even if it means selling the house and move to a better school district.

Like a time-bomb, Rebecca will eventually go to school. This forced us to take a hard look at our current school district. Oh, My! Choosing a school is far from easy. For example, there are two top-performing schools in our district. One is strict and performance centered, with homeworks everyday and strong focus on math and science. The other one is more hands-on learning with lots of parents involvement and many field trips throughout the year. Students from both school excel at the standard tests provided by the state, so which one (if any) is a better choice?

Fortunately we still have a couple of years before we have to make up our minds. This makes me look forward to more dumpling parties in the future….

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親吻是個很複雜的動作，有著很多解釋。戀人的吻是纏綿帶著熱情，有著親密夾著渴望，像那火熱的愛情，一不小心，會燎原。家人間的吻，沒有那麼狂熱，是溫溫暖暖的感覺，是親密中帶著安心，知道彼此都是妳生命中的一個不可缺的角色。

Rebecca第一次主動親我的時候，正是她要去加拿大之前，一天我抱著她哭著很傷心，她張著大大的眼睛，有著不安的望著我，小小暖暖的手忙著拭去我湧流不止的淚水，忙了一會，看沒用的媽媽能是眼淚流不停，便展開她無敵招牌笑容，想要逗我，她這一笑，我也哭不出來，看著我眼淚加鼻涕的狼狽笑容，很得意的她，突如其來的湊上前來給我一個吻。這吻吻的我好不容易止住的眼淚又一串串掉下，也真是讓我體會到那令人安心到底的滋味。

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Dear 外婆，小阿姨跟未來的小姨父，

聽媽媽說，你們要三月份分別從台灣，美國東邊跟南邊來看我，順便幫很懶不置家的媽媽的忙，把客廳佈置一下，從媽媽那知道，外婆跟小阿姨對佈置整家很厲害，不愧是學美術的，很可惜我媽媽的功力只到配衣服。

很高興你們來玩，我也終於可以一嘗外婆的好廚藝，不用整天吃媽媽的愛心蒸餃跟soba，讓我表現我最厲害的吃工給你們看…哈哈哈。

Love

Rebecca, En-Ting Ko

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Rebecca的個性真是很會靜觀色變，超級會撒嬌，而且完全知道誰要用哪種方法。一看到我臉色變，就知道要傻笑加親親跟抱抱。對爸爸，只要傻笑加抱抱就可以征服，親親則要看心情如何。

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有時天氣不太冷，我就帶Rebecca去附近的公園玩，順便補一點新鮮蔬果跟魚肉。沒理由Rebecca非常怕玩遛滑梯，每次玩她都手抓腳頂著，不要溜下來，玩一次之後，只要看到就猛搖頭。她卻很愛盪鞦韆，每每玩到欲罷不能，一看到就指著叫”啊啊～～”

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我們一家都是牛仔褲的愛戴者，剛認識時兩人都是學生，當然都是牛仔褲一套，上衣一件就背起書包去了，反正在北美，流行資訊沒有台灣快，大家都是牛仔褲T-shirt，忙著讀書考試，哪有心情還梳妝打扮。不過偶爾跟朋友出去玩時，還是會打扮一翻。我其實喜歡的style 就是那些，打開衣櫃，高領上衣，即膝裙，牛仔褲，連身的長短洋裝，色系清一色灰，黑，紅和咖啡。我很愛冷色系，也許跟我這個慢熱的個性相合。

結婚之後，老公的公司也是把T-shirt牛仔褲當制服，人人穿的T-shirt是比破的，越破表示呆越久，我是常常帶出門的另一半，他都是毛衣，T-shirt，牛仔褲，我總不能天天熟女打扮，緊身齊膝窄裙外加高跟鞋，搞得我像他媽是的。日式娃娃風的縲絲荷葉邊，天天粉紅色裝可愛也不是我的style。有了小孩當了媽後，我的穿著更是可以說是”簡便”，小孩動不動就用那吃的一身髒的小肥手，把妳的衣服當不用錢的抹布，一生病更是一日照三餐吐，一日換兩三套衣服可是家常便飯，衣服當然是要耐洗方便為主。出門大多是買菜上公園跟圖書館，牛仔褲加polo衫當然是上上之選。總不能叫我去個公園買菜還腳瞪三寸高的高跟鞋追著小孩滿街跑吧。

久而久之，牛仔褲也是我的例行裝扮之一。唯一一個例外是每個星期天去教會，只要是星期天，我們多多少少都會穿個得體，如果碰到要司事那個月，更是要注意服裝儀容，上衣不能太低，裙不能太短，都失莊重。畢竟禮拜天去朝見神，又不是去pub，沒必要露胸露腿的。

上星期我們是司事，全家打扮的漂漂亮亮，難得連Rebecca都淑女起來，穿起裙子。其實不是我不愛給她穿裙子，她三個月時，我興高采烈的幫她買了一件碎花裙，一心想完成幫女兒打扮成小公主的媽媽，一幫她穿上，差點沒笑死我，真的很像男扮女裝（請見圖），當場打碎我當星媽的美夢。之後出門即是全身粉紅，別人還是稱讚她”He is so cute….“，害得當父母的我們只能笑笑，真是個無言以對的時刻。

小小Rebecca之前還不會走，是典型的四隻腳爬蟲類，穿裙子動不動就被絆住，爬不動，加上在地上爬爬走，老讓人看內褲尿布底也很不雅，乾脆穿褲子，方 便省事。其中又以 牛仔褲榮登最耐穿之榜，別看她小小隻，活動力之強，整天到處爬，沒兩下薄點的褲子，就列入回收筒的懷抱。現在她雖然升等為人字形，不過動不動就兩腳一岔， 表演軟骨功，看著天真想要為她添點淑女氣質的媽媽直搖頭。

注；Rebecca當淑女樣，只有短短幾分鐘，還沒出門，她就已經把帽子摘了開始表演軟骨功。

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Recently I’ve been sick quite often. I don’t really know if it was a cold or flu, or a combination of both. All I know is that I felt quite sick, with a terrible sore throat and some coughing. At night I’d get chills out of nowhere.

Lots of people gave me advice on how to deal with the cold. Many of them swear by the technique and claim it works for him/her almost all the time. Here are some of the ones I remembered. (Read the article)

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前幾天我們試著教Rebecca吹氣，她只會小小的吹，隔天她爸爸吹口琴給她聽，一時興起就給她吹吹看。沒想到……

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