Delicous treasure from one of my adorable students today – another gave me some Bon Bons. Since I had to work on #thanksgiving (not a Holiday abroad 😭), this was quite the treat!
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
8 SepSeptember 8th was the day the Chinese celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, kind of their version of Thanksgiving. It’s a day where they appreciate the harvests and eat yummy mooncakes (amongst other foods) with their families, all while gazing at the moon. One of my students recommended that I drink black tea while eating the mooncake because it (enhanced the natural flavor and burns off the sugar). It did go might well together, if I say so myself 🙂
My mooncake tasted a lot like a fig newton, but if you want to celebrate your own Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many many different kinds of mooncakes to try!
Happy Thanksgiving!
28 NovThanksgiving Rhyme
The year has turned its circle, The seasons come and go. The harvest all is gathered in And chilly north winds blow. Orchards have shared their treasures, The fields, their yellow grain, So open wide the doorway~ Thanksgiving comes again!
I’m Not Thankful For… Critics.
25 Nov
As a lead-in to the lovely Thanksgiving holidays, here’s something I’m not thankful for–critics (yes, I get the irony). It seems like every year it gets more and more popular to criticize basically everything. Sarcasm is now becoming the default language for “cool people.”
“I hate . . . ” “I know, right!” If I hear that phrase one more time. . . Ugh!!
The world of fashion is naturally the shining example. Society was all about the Ugg boots (never really my fave–I prefer riding boots), right up until someone needed to say their piece. Suddenly, everyone else feels the need to jump on the bandwagon. Have you even thought about how rude that is?!? If you hated it that much, you should have said something before most little girls had to have a pair.
Technology, yeah that’s another HUGE area. Either you’re the idiot with an electronic that’s “ancient” or you’re the idiot who rushed right out there to “buy up the latest item when you don’t really need it.” Classic rock and hard place.
What is making me really tired is that it now extends to Holidays. I hated it clear back when everyone was ragging on Christmas. Admittedly, I probably spend way too much on a holiday that should focus on the celebration of my Lord. But I throw Him a heck of a party. You personally may have lost sight of the “Reason for the Season,” but excuse me if I partially remember God’s gift to us by giving my Aunt that beautiful statue she loves so much. Really, no one asked for you to rain on my parade.
Now it’s been extended to other holidays! Continue reading
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
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