Monthly Archives: December 2012

Rockstars’ Christmas Past

One would’ve thought after the late night Candle Light Service Christmas Eve Rockstar would’ve slept in, and one would’ve been wrong. This is him and JD early Christmas morning: (yeah he assembles what he can of his own toys) We … Continue reading

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Rockstar Sings We Wish You A Merry Christmas In Putonghua

First attempt, without subtitles and editing – just recorded and uploaded… I didn’t even embed and post yet, just uploaded to Youtube, someone already picked it up – dem fast…! One trying to read, one trying to eat (in English – … Continue reading

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Ms Rockstar Makes Coffee

Ps: Rockstar “makes coffee” for his dad, and the baby “makes coffee” for me; thank you, Nespresso. Works out about right because when Kings is home on the weekend is also when Rockstar isn’t in school…         … Continue reading

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Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night

1) Stars in ugly holiday sweaters! In the slideshow P Diddy’s looks suspiciously like Ms Rockstars’! Not Diddy And this one costs…. USD 1700!! (Btw my own holiday sweater was this one from Shopbop.com, which I wore over two other thin … Continue reading

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Rockstarism: #142: A Rockstar And His Chai-nese (Or, Pigs Can Fly)

Rockstar can read everything in this booklet – Kings tested him word for word because he simply couldn’t believe it – Kings is always on my back about the Chinese. Not… that either of us are at all literate in … Continue reading

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Jingle All The Way

#142 Rockstar: Mum. I want to tell you something. <pausing for effect> Santa (at his school Christmas party)…. wasn’t really Santa. <lowering voice conspiratorially> He was (school principal)! Me: Oh really? Rockstar: He was dressed as Santa, but I recognize … Continue reading

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Rockstar’s 5th Birthday

This is the first time Rockstar’s actual birthdate is not a school holiday, so much so that we’d gotten used to celebrating early before school’s out, because his real birthdate is “too” close to Christmas. Also partly why we don’t … Continue reading

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The End Of Friday

1) It’s the end of the Mayan calendar today, and Pieter Van Der Meer of the Netherlands will take refuge in this lifeboat, for the impending global apocalypse. Man From Netherlands And His Lifeboat I wish this was a light-hearted post, … Continue reading

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Spreading Good Cheer

**written a little earlier… One of the things I really like about Rockstar’s new school is some of the opportunities kids get to be nice to each other. Case in point: the important-looking red post box sitting next to huge … Continue reading

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Meet Our Christmas Tree

**Updated at bottom Not one for suspense, dis is our Christmas tree. (Dat, behind tree, is Rockstar’s rendition of the Tractor Tipping scene in Cars, where Lightning McQueen unfortunately rouses Frank, the giant orange threshing machine who sleeps in the … Continue reading

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