week of 01-21 thru 01-28

 I have a friend who sends out their updated email every Sunday night.

That made me realize how rarely I get to talk to my parents nowadays.

I'm such a slacker that I'm so bad at keeping the blog updated regularly..

But I will try this year to be better with this.

I promise!

OK, this week, I went to "PECS trainings" on the 22nd and 23rd.

PECS is a way to communicate with children who are non-verbal using pictures.

I've known this method but didn't know exactly how to use them.

A guy who invented this method came from Baltimore and trained all the teachers in Bid Island.

I was invited to join them as a parent and I learned a lot.

Friday, we all went to Kona Temple where the kids had childcare by our ward member family so Ian and I got to go there by ourselves.  We were able to sit together and pray/meditate. Had a wonderful time.

Saturday, we went to few garage sales and spend half of the day at a beach called "A-Bay".

This beach's ocean has a pretty light greenish blueish color. I love the contrast of that color and the black lava color. Beautiful. 

At night, we went to our friends' house for dinner. We all had a great day.

Today, Ian got sick. He had nausea, chill and fever! 

Hope he gets well soon.

おじいさん訪問 Papa's visit

Ian's dad is teaching in "semester at sea" this year again.

He is going around the world which I am very jealous with!

His ship ported in Hilo for two days so we had him over to our place.

It was a lot of fun (you can see in the boys' faces)

It was too bad that we had to concentrate everything in two days!

Hope he could come stay with us longer next time.

Have a nice trip, papa!

食！Food Food Food!!!

Since my profession was changed in to "say at home mom",

I've been learning how to cook.(not just how to cook, how to cook things to taste/look better!)

I wasn't enjoying it at first but I had to do it in order to live within our budget.

Now, I realized that I actually enjoy cooking more than before.

I even noticed that I'm becoming more and more critical to restaurant dishes etc that aren't tasty or healthy enough for us to pay for it! haha

This year, we are trying to eat less meat. (except fish)

I set a goal that I plan at least two days in a week that I don't cook any meat.

We've been feeling a lot better with our new diet so far.

If any of you have some good recipes for vegetarian, let me know!