Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada

::Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada::

My notes and my memories: sometimes about a mom - sometimes about a wife - sometimes about a woman - sometimes about our life

::Author::

Name::Andrea
From::Small city/town, B.C., Canada
I am a short girl from the west cost of BC, Canada and I am a proud Canadian. I went to Japan in 2000 because my Dad told me I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't. He was right. I lived a good life found my husband from the other side of the world and have a beautiful daughter. Basically we lead a pretty normal life filled with normal ups and downs. We both come from different cultures: me Canadian, him Chinese. Living in Japan was a real eye opener about who I am and about the people I associate myself with. I lived and loved in Japan but the time to move on came upon us and in May of 2006 we left and moved to Canada: a huge move for us all. We are now trying to start up again, remodel our lives and create our future for our family. I now feel like a tourist in the country of my birth, my eyes see different and my life will be forever changed. This blog is my notes and observations of our life, our changes, our adventures and new beginnings. Welcome.
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::Recent Entries::

::Personal Links::

My Japanese Culture Teaching Notes

::My Family's Sites::

Alisha - a site set up by friends and family of my little sis

Phrax - my step-brother

Blue Mountain Stable

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An Index of past posts - the Japan Years

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Canadian Atlas

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Wikipedia

World TimesZones - please check this BEFORE calling me!

Currency Converter

eigoNavi - a pretty good language converter

The Samurai Appliance Repair Man - a funny repair site for N

::World News::

Generation Woman

Japan Times

Counter Punch

Japanese General Union - a must! read before working in Japan

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Buttons created with the Chicklet Creator

Friday, March 16, 2007

crazy about buttons

Everyone has a weird tick or slight oddity about them.
Mine – well I have many.
ToddlerJi’s
Well she sucks her thumb and has this odd fascination with buttons.
Yes buttons.

Whenever she is tired, worried, upset or in need of some comfort she sticks her thumb in her mouth and twists a button between her fingers. The thumb sucking drives my hubby up the wall and the button twisting drives me up the wall.

I was a big time thumb sucker and braces for four years was the result. This is what my husband is terrified of. I have asked him not to make a big deal out of her thumb sucking and not to fight with her about it. He isn’t – instead we joke with her about it, silently remove her thumb and do things in more of a sort of off handed manner.

Now the button thing is a totally different story.
She basically has to be wearing something with a button sewn on to it that she can twist or she gets pretty pissy.
Last night she fell asleep without a button – this backfired on me and at three this morning I was woken by her scream of:
“MOMMMMMMYYYY where is Button?!!!!!”
in the baby monitor.

At three in the morning my head is not on totally straight and I ran in circles a couple of times trying to find some piece of clothing with a button – snaps don’t work. I ended up having to fish a dirty sweater out of the laundry basket to please her.
She then laid down and fell back to sleep after her adorable,
“Thank you mommy”.
(I love it when she says that.)

This morning she came into the bathroom while I was applying makeup and was dragging the sweater behind her as if it was a blanket. The light bulb went on above my head and I immediately thought of taking a small blanket made of soft but strong material and sewing LARGE buttons all over it with upholstery thread.

This might be a project for me over the next week, whattaya think?

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