Boy, we had quite a weekend! It started a little early when Mirian asked if I could come home early on Friday because Karla had a fever. I managed to get home by noon to relieve her and I had an unexpected half-day to hang out with my little girl. It was sunny outside so I took her down to the courtyard for some water fun with her tea set. She LOVED it and I got some free time to pay bills and balance our finances.
That evening, we went to SOMA Streat Food Park for their version of Lunar New Year. All the food trucks had special dishes for the night, they played Bruce Lee movies on the big screens, Tsing tao was $3 all night, and they had a DJ playing Asian Hip-Hop music. They also had Chinese acrobats performing at 8pm but we left before that started.
On Saturday morning, we took a trip to the zoo for a quick 1-hour walk around the Savanna area. The giraffes and zebras were all so active that morning and Kumquat was so pleased to see her “GG” pals.
That same evening, we all gathered at Ryan and Michelle’s house in Orinda to welcome the Year of the Horse. We celebrate together every year and I was impressed at how civilized our dinner was this year considering we had 5 kids present.
At one point everyone was seated, eating, and enjoying each other’s company. 
We’ve come a long way from the year we had Jack, Reese, and Rowan together for the first time.
We had a potluck of “bring something from your homeland” so we pretty much had two dinners: my dish (chicken gravy over rice) first and then Michelle’s kalbi, spicy pork, and chap chae. For dessert, we had Vyl’s red bean pancakes and pecan pie. Yum.
The kids received red envelopes and I loved Reese’s expression when she discovered there was actual money inside for her.
Kumquat had a fun time playing with all of Reese and Jack’s toys and at one point Isla joined her. By the end of the night, she was falling asleep in Bang’s comfy lap.
After we got home and put Kumquat to bed, I mustered some energy to change my clothes and put on some heels(!) for Mai’s Bachelorette Party. Jes stayed home and I hailed a cab to Asia SF where the party had started since 5. I didn’t get there until 10 but I got there with enough to celebrate with the girls and get a good laugh. Amazingly, I was home by midnight. Thanks for the ride home, R!
On Sunday morning it was raining! Finally. We opted to stay in our PJs for as long as we could and it was great. I spent the morning archiving a bunch of our old bank and health insurance statements while reorganizing our files too. Victor and Susie were hosting Super Bowl so we joined them in the afternoon for all the tasty food that Susie prepared.
The game was not very exciting but Bruno Mars had a good half-time performance. And of course, the commercials were fun. These were my favorites:
- Budweiser puppy/horse spot
- Doritos time machine spot
- Bud Light up-for-anything spot.
Overall, this was a fun and productive weekend. Unfortunately, Karla is still sick so I’m going to have to stay home tomorrow. Yippee! Er, I meant Aw shucks. These unexpected long weekends are going to spoil me!!
I finally put up some of the wall art that I’ve collected over the past two years. I couldn’t hang frames over her bed so I kinda sat on this project for a while. Then I found some clear command hooks at the store and figured out that I could juset tie a ribbon on them and used some binder clips to hang the prints. I also found these cool Scotch Restickable Dots that I used to display her artwork.
The prints are all from local artists. Below are the original versions of two of the prints. I met the artist, Genevieve Santos at a craft faire and was so sweet to offer to paint the boy’s hair black in both of the prints.
Pillow Fort
“Let me in. I have cookies.”
Angry Birds
I don’t know what this one is called but I imagine this is where Koa lives now.
She also designed the Koa pillow that Kumquat sleeps with every night.
This is a cute one that Kumquat loves to point to and label “bus” and “GG”. The artist’s name is Nidhi Chanani. Love her stuff.
Little by little, this space will be covered in scribbles…hopefully, they’ll all be on paper and not the actual wall.
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