The girls... last weekend.

This weekend we will look after Isabel and Eva as their mother is sick. i always relish having the chance to spend a bit more time with them - always good to be with them. We had them last week too and took them to Taipei - I forgot my camera, so no pics.

We did enjoy a very good lunch at JB's too bad they didn't have a children's menu, however the food was OK. the only issues were that their shepherd's pie came with cheese on top, and the serving of Irish stew was fairly small.

OK, however last Monday, Rebecca tried to capture me cooking, and the girls playing. It went rather well - I suspect that her love for staying behind the camera is mainly motivated by a fear of getting in front of it.

Dad - IE me was busy in the kitchen, making a meatloaf with fried potato patties, not very healthy, however the girls ate a fair bit. Especially Isabel, who is entering her growth spurt, and needs all the nutrition she can get in order to grow up. I like cooking for the girls - it's a great way of making sure that they get to taste something Danish. I also believe that the fact that they are served some home cooked food will make them fonder of their time spent with dad. That they will learn other sexual roles apart from the "dad watching TV, mum in the kitchen" one, might also come in handy when they start looking for partners, hopefully a long time from now.

Eva was happy entertaining herself and Rebecca by trying to get a few pics arranged, where she was together with the teddy bear we rediscovered in the attic.. Very cute. Isabel checking up on homework in the background. The kids get a lot of homework in Taiwanese schools. As long as it's math etc. I am happy, however learning Chinese characters by rote! Not good in my book. I was very unhappy with a school book of Isabel's depicting foreigners as stupid. Taiwan is such a small place who is so dependent on the outside world. Imprinting xenophobia is not the way to go.

While Isabel was polishing up her homework, I was busy n the kitchen, and Rebecca was helping me out with the table etc, Eva busied herself with TV. She prefers Taiwanese or Japanese cartoons, however I try to enforce a "Danish only" rule when it comes to TV watching. She watched, but was a bit unhappy, so she declined to have her picture taken - look at the picture to the right for details.

Isabel was busy with her homework - as usual. Rebecca told me that the amount of homework has decreased since she was a child. I don't remember spending that much time on it when I was at Isabel's age. Oh well. At least she seems to be coping rather well, and she learns a lot.