Multicultural Kids
This evening I fed my half Spanish-half white kids some Vietnamese food. It’s our favourite these days, and tonight I tried my hand at making my own. To be perfectly, brutally honest, it was delicious! Jose stuffed himself with two helpings and James and Julia really enjoyed it too. Julia dipped bits of hers (mainly the veggies, but her spring roll too) in Caesar salad dressing. James dipped his in ketchup. Personally I felt that was verging on sacrilegious, but I can say one thing for my kids: they’re not picky eaters! In fact, James was asking where the salad rolls were.
“Mummy, you just need to get some sticky, see-through skin, and put shrimp and rice and broccoli in and roll it up. That’s what I would do if I were you.” Thanks, James, I’ll keep that in mind for next time!
In other news, a major change has occurred in our life. James and Julia’s wonderfully fantastic babysitter has decided to close her day home as of August. Besides being very sad, we are in a bit of a scramble to find childcare. We also made the big decision to switch our intended schools. I had planned to put James in the school that Bobbie’s kid are zoned for since she’d be driving him. It’s also a great school from what I heard. Julia was going to go to the preschool James is currently in, which is an awesome preschool with a great teacher. However, since we have to make childcare changes anyway, we decided we’d put both kids into Galbraith – my school. James will go to kindergarten, and Julia’s on the waiting list for our brand new preschool. Both kids will be going Mon.-Thurs. mornings. Now I just need to find them a place to stay for the rest of the time!! I’m really excited to have the kids coming to school with me. I’ll be able to go to all of their events now, and I won’t have to take time off work! The kids are really excited too. James received a Welcome to Kindergarten package, and at this very moment, he’s outside blowing his “kindergarten bubbles” that came in it. He’s been drawing with his kindergarten chalk, cutting with his kindergarten scissors, and reading his kindergarten books! Where God closes a door, he always opens a window. Thanks be to God.