The clipboard man summons us to the door. We shuffle in under the famous restaurant sign. Qan: meaning perfection, Ju: representing gathering without departing and De: the highest virtue. In combination the name implies a perfect union of moral excellence and benevolence.
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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder subtraction
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There are some days where you just feel that you are the icy pole stick that’s been shoved up the arse of a Paddlepop. Chocolate flavour. I don’t want to sound like a huge whinge-bag (because I am really blessed with family, friends, health and incredible good looks >haha< ) but yesterday was the beginning […]
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Posted in camp, daughter, eight years old, expectations, Family, growing up, kids, Parenting, school, Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2009
This afternoon we trolled through the garage (otherwise known as the repository for everything other than the car) looking for a case suitable for Miss 8’s impending camp. Her first camp. I finally found the one I was looking for, a snazzy-surfy one that her big brother had used on his first camp. I was elated. […]
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Posted in dance, daughter, eight years old, exam, expectations, Family, growing up, jazz, kids, Parenting, school on Aug 28th, 2009
According to my weeping daughter, who had flung herself across her bed, two girls, (count them fingers sticking up at me) two girls in her jazz ballet class got a grade higher than she did in her dance exam. I make her sit up. We wipe the trail of snot off her pillowcase and closely […]
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