Any chinese mothers out there???

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I was just wondering

DH is english and DD is a wonderful mix of both of us. people say she looks english/white when out with Dh and chinese when she's out with me!!!

very low key
it was over here after we had been here for a year and were going back to London. A registrary office, none of my family came it was too hot and too far. Then Italian cafe for cream cakes and champagne and chinese restaurant after.

At the time it was just what we wanted but of course looking back I wish we had had more of a ceremony and more friends and family present.

Oh and the morning of the wedding MIL got out all the jade and gold and draped it on me - which was nice

V. nice! Oh to be draped in gold and jade ('tho you know how terrible I would look in gold ).

I wish my family had been at ours too, but am really glad that we did get to celebrate it the way that we'd wanted. We had a Chinese banquet with my family after. Not quite the same at all, but still a nice celebration.

she has a much better figure than me maomao

LOL, suzy, i forgot about the gold and jade. All my aunts and uncles had to buy me jewellery so they all went off to HK and got that 'real' gold looking gold!!!!!!!!! It was lovely but i have not seen it since as my mum packed it all away and hid it, as she says 'too good to wear'!!!

Hey yingers, how are you feeling?

Good! No sigh of MS yet, fingers crossed it stays away this time? Any progress on the char siu buns?

No, I've not been motivated enough to get myself to Chinatown .

I hope the MS stays away --- was it awful for you the first time around? When I was pregnant with DD, I drank a lot of ginger infused in hot water. I think that's why my dd has such a spicy temper now.... (or perhaps it's simply that she's almost 2)

it was terrible and I spent a little time in hosptial, my mum was bad with us but have fingers crossed that this time it will be different! Yes my dd is also becoming a handful, when is yours turning 2? Mine will be 2 in feb.

you've never been to China town !!!!
you can get on the number 24 bus and it will take you right there you slack woman Mao Mao

(I just had a flash back to introducing you and dd to your first 99 from the icecream van on Hampstead Heath)

I really should give you my msn addy as I am just yabbering on here and taking up proper thread space - sorry

No, no, no, no, NO

I HAVE BEEN TO CHINATOWN

just not very recently (admittedly months and months and months ago).

Now give me the gold and jade, woman!

Yingers, that's really horrible about having to go to the hospital for your MS! I shall definitely keep my fingers crossed for you that you avoid it. Perhaps more of your mother's soup is in order....

yes how horrid for you yngers

why did I think you had never been to chinatown then? Lord knows

Do you know I have so much gold and jade I can't keep track of it, only because I hardly ever wear it. It's just that now I'm living with my benefactor I have to keep trotting pieces out occasionally just to show willing and she asks me where such and such a piece is and I don't even know I had it.

I have to say it doesn't really suite my whitey complexion, it is a bit too egg yolk yellow

suit not suite

egg yolk yellow - yep that's the stuff! If I knew where it all was, i would pass you some MaoMao!

You are too kind, really

so, how is everyone today? I am good, dd is asleep and am about to go wake her up!! Let's hope she is in a good mood!

hello yingers, how are you?
I've been having a lovely chat with my MIL about planting choi sum in our vegetable patch next year

i'm good. Stopped having m/s this week - bang on time since its my 12th week. Still hooked on corn beef sandwiches though!!!

let me know if you need any seeds/tips for growing the choi sum Suzywong. my parents have an allotment which feeds 6 families!!!!

how is everyone??

wow, growing your own choi sum. My mum has a talent for growing things too, her interest is mainly in flowers and plants rather than veg, again this is a talent that has somehow passed me by, anything i try to grow tends to die largely out of neglect, even weeds don't last very long under my watch!!!!!

Okay, if this thread has not really died, an update please, on how you are all doing/feeling!

Maomao,
HEre is a topic to start us off again....I bought a book recently called The Good Women of China. by Xinran. Anyone read it? I have not, have a list of books as long as my arm waiting to be read, am just into the Ladies Detective agency books at the moment though!
anyway, Amazon seems to hold this good women book in high regard.....would not mind having someone to discuss it with if anyone is interested!

lurk
(I'm not actually a Chinese mother, as you may know, but have Chinese Malaysian MIL with whom I live)

She made a drink out of preserved kumquats today for her sore throat

marz, I think my mother may have read it --- I shall have to ask her about it! Over here, I am limited by what I can find in the library

You lurker, you, preserved kumquats and what? And how are the kumquats preserved, exactly? Am very curious.

hello dear
well a friend of hers brought them back from HK and they look like t hey are candied, yet wrinkled and coated in powdery sugar like plums, she chopped them up and then steeped them in hot water and drank the juice