公主王粉蚕爱美术

[princesssilkmoth]

My son will be called 明储 (Mingchu).  And he's so beautiful!  Lotus thinks it sounds too much like Mingchun and thinks I should have called him Mingbi, but Mingchun thinks it's great.

He had to be C-sectioned, and they found some problems while they were taking him out.  They don't think I will be able to have another, although they will check up on me in six months to see if things have cleared up.  But even if this is my last one, I don't have to worry about anything until my sweet Mingchu is grown, and by then I'm sure one of my girls will be a princess and make space for me just like I made space for Mama.  Maybe once there are no babies in the house I will be able to focus more on work.

Here is a picture of all of us!  I'm in the middle holding Mingchu.  Behind me left to right are Chrysanthemum, Mama, Lotus, and Gardenia, and in front of me left to right are Minghui, Mingtiao, Mingpan, Mingchun, and Mingshao.

[A picture.  Everyone is smiling, except for Mingchun, whose hair Mingshao is pulling.]

[princesssilkmoth]

Once, when I was a little girl, I found a kitten.  It was caught in the rain and barely old enough to be away from its mother and it was black and looked so sad, and I wanted to keep it and call it Black Fuzz, and Mama said no, it might have diseases or fleas, and I said that meant we had to help it get better and give it a home, and she said absolutely not and took it and I never saw it again.

Anyway Mingshao just found a stray puppy, and introduced it to Minghui and Mingtiao before anyone noticed, and they are all begging me for it on top of each other, and I have apologized to Mama now.  The puppy has been put in an animal shelter and someone who wants a dog and is not a small girl can have it.  It was so gross!  And even if it had been cleaned up I do not want it in the house peeing on things and needing to be trained and walked.

[princesssilkmoth]

Mingtiao has decided that all of China belongs to her because she is the Middle Child and it's the Middle country.  I think she does not really believe this and is just being silly, but she's very insistent about it.

[princesssilkmoth]

Chrysanthemum is trying to do an enormous floor puzzle but Mingchun keeps stealing pieces and running away with them!  She thinks it's so funny and Chrysanthemum can't fit the puzzle in her room, it is much too big.  We told Minghui and Mingshao to help fend Mingchun off.  Mingtiao tried to help and bowled poor Mingchun over and it was no good.  Mingtiao switched to helping Chrysanthemum find edge pieces until she got bored and went to play with Mingchun, which was useful.

[princesssilkmoth]

Found all those potato recipes!  Mingshao's potato kick vanished mysteriously after only a few weeks but the recipes we still have.  Maybe we will serve potatoes on her birthday as a kind of a joke!

[princesssilkmoth]

I went with Gardenia clothes shopping and we got her a lot of new things.  She has gained some weight and can't wear all of her old things any more.  My maternity clothes from my pregnancy with Mingpan are still fine, but I could not resist a cute dress that says "Wait For It" in English!  Usually clothes here that have English on them do not really make sense if you know the language and say things like "Peanut Butter Ball Room" or "There Theres A Will Theres Away" or "DUCK SHOES" or "So Long My Fish".  I have really seen all of those clothes in stores or on people!  But "Wait For It" makes sense and it is on a maternity dress.

[princesssilkmoth]

Home again!  Mingpan missed me so much and will not let me put her down.  It has taken hours to get her to let me sit without sobbing and begging me to stand up again.  I wish babies liked hugs from sitting people!  Now I can sit and she is curled up on my chest while I type on my phone.  Poor little one.

[princesssilkmoth]

Everything is so clean here!  Even the air is clean!  It makes much more difference than I thought it would and I like it very much.  I can't read as much of the signs as I was expecting because after Japan copied all our hanzi and started calling them kanji they changed a lot of things and so did we, but I can guess some things.  My co-worker is helping with all the parts that are written phonetically, in between the nice readable characters.

[princesssilkmoth]

I am going to go on vacation to Japan!  I will probably post less while I am there.  I am going with a co-worker who knows a little Japanese.  The little ones will be staying home with Mama and my friends.  It's only for a week and they will be fine.  I am excited to see all the sights and eat real Japanese food.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Sasha Vinogradova

[princesssilkmoth]

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[silverhawk]

one of my ABSOLUTE favorite moth species out there has to be the madagascan sunset moth

its such a GORGEOUS moth that not a lot of people seem to know about and i just??? god what a beauty

[harrychapinwroteonmybones]

@cynical-space

[princesssilkmoth]

[princesssilkmoth]

Minghui is in her school play.  (She is a rabbit.)

She says she wants to invite Red Dragon.

I told her I did not think that would be a good idea but I would give her his email address so she can send him email sometimes if she really wants, just that she should not invite him to anything I am going to.  I think this was probably the right thing compared to being there at the play with him, or skipping the play, or telling her she couldn't invite him and then not giving her his email address?  But I am not sure.

[princesssilkmoth]

I'm going to have to buy different baby clothes once I have a little boy.  I guess some of the onesies are gender neuter, but some of them are not!  And basically nothing Mingpan is getting new will be right for a boy either.  And it turns out boys' clothes are much more expensive.  I suppose they figure all the boys' clothes are going to either princesses or people who are in violation of population law anyway.  I could afford it but I can also afford to order from India!

I'm not going to do it right away though.  It doesn't take that long for things to ship and the neuter onesies will do for a few days unless he spits up a lot.

[my-uterus-my-rules]

has anyone else ever thought how weird it is that religious people are wrong about … whether god exists … but right about whether to let teenagers have children? like you’d think being wrong about one would make you more likely to be wrong about the other

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[princesssilkmoth]

I do not think that is just about whether someone is religious or not! Canada is the strange one here.

[end0skeletal]

Hickory Horned Devil (Regal Moth Caterpillar) by Stephen Lody

Adult:

[princesssilkmoth]

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[princesssilkmoth]

Went with Gardenia to the doctor since we had appointments around the same time.  We’ll see soon if mine took!  And then we got Indian food.  I liked my egg curry more than I expected to.  I don’t know what the Indian bread is all called in English or I’d talk about what Gardenia got, I got a taste and it was good!  It had a lot of layers.

[knowledge-is-prediction]

I think the English word is ‘naan’?

[princesssilkmoth]

I googled Naan and it didn't look right but one of the pages that came up had other kinds pictured and apparently it's "paratha".

[princesssilkmoth]

Went with Gardenia to the doctor since we had appointments around the same time.  We'll see soon if mine took!  And then we got Indian food.  I liked my egg curry more than I expected to.  I don't know what the Indian bread is all called in English or I'd talk about what Gardenia got, I got a taste and it was good!  It had a lot of layers.