My Kids Doodles

I attended Wakaba's Observation Day at school last week and this week is another busy week for me. Went again at Wakaba's school for PTA duties with some mums. We cut out some bell marks from products then the marks get traded in for supplies or useful stuffs for the school. Then at Haruka's yochien ( kindergarten school ), mums at school started a project since last week for the bazaar event and now I'm almost half to finish. I will post the finished product here at Kizuna as soon as it's done^_^

Although my energy is almost drained but when the kids come home with a full of life drawings, it gives me power to be energetic again!

Apple Tree by Wakaba
Rainy Day by Wakaba

Haruka's drawing

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Hello Kitty Character Bento Deluxe Set

Just when I thought that I need some bento gadgets for bento making for Wakaba and Haruka last year, I found this Hello Kitty Character Bento Deluxe Set from ToysRus which is the store's original. The bento set includes Hello Kitty Onigiri sushi rice mold, Hello Kitty veggie food cookie cutter, Hello Kitty disposable mini food cup, Hello Kitty mini baran food divider, Hello Kitty lunch picks and Hello Kitty parts cutter.

I started to make Hello Kitty character bento to my kids for their lunch at school , I was anticipating that they will come home with an empty lunchbox but to my dismay 'twas the opposite. I thought that they were just full till lunch or just no appetite at all but later found out from Haruka that the bento I prepared for them is delish but Hello Kitty onigiri daw is so 'kawawa' ( pitiful) to eat (T_T).





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Manga Artists Visited Fukushima

Our family went to Fukushima Airport last month coz we heard that famous manga/anime illustrators will be visiting Fukushima for an event to cheer the Tohoku people with their Joint Work Illustration plus a Paper Airplane Project. Manga artist displayed some of their works, comics, T-shirts and postcards, they also signed autographs to fans and had fun games during the event . No matter how much I would like to feature the persons behind the manga but with all respect, I just can't...

My husband and I have been a fan of the manga 彼女のカレラ ( My Favorite Carrera ) and we were excited to see the face behind the manga and finally met Kia Asamiya in person! I brought my manga with me and let him signed of course~ it was enough for me to have seen him person and to my surprise, he drawed Reina Todori ( the manga's main character) at the back of the books cover with his sign on! It'll be my ' takaramono ' ( treasure ) forever and he also gave me a signed postcard. Wakaba and Haruka however enjoyed making their paper airplane and was given some gachapon and candies.

The game portion was fun and exciting~ fans will have to request the illustrators to draw something in one minute! The best illustration that will be chosen and will be given together with a sign and the worst illustration will be displayed at their 'worst display whiteboard' for everyone to see till the event ends. It would be embarrassing for them but no matter how pro they are, they still have some weaknesses just like when a kid requested them to draw ultraman, lady illustrators had difficulties of drawing it and of course it was displayed as worst lol!

Fukushima Airport
Kia Asamiya sensei's work
Works of famous manga illustrators
Wakaba chan
Haruka chan showing off her paper airplane
Wakaba chan had fun over gachapon
Display of worst illustration chosen by fans
Fukushima Airport's Souvenir Shop
Nagatsuki Misoka
My kids~ sketched by Nagatsuki Misoka sensei

I would like to thank the following manga illustrators who came in Fukushima

麻宮騎亜先生 Asamiya Kia
岩本佳浩先生 Iwamoto Toshihiro
こうの史代先生 Kouno Fumiyo
ときた洸一先生 Tokita Kouichi
とだ勝之先生 Todakatsu Yuki
長月みそか先生 Nagatsuki Misoka
杜野亜希先生 Morino Aki

and guest 天神秀貴 Tenjin Hidetaka

ありがとうございました。



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June Top 10 Commentators And EC Droppers

Thanks to all my friends for all the support of reading Kizuna and for leaving your comments and for dropping EC. Another month has passed by and I would like to give some linky lovin' to the Top 10 Commentators and Top 10 Ec Droppers for the month. I will also put their links at my sidebar. Thank you very much!!

Top 10 Commentators

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Wa-Wa-Wa

I love my husband for taking me out for lunch and spend quality time with me minus the kids. It is the only time where we could eat ' real foods ' is when the kids are at school. LOL! Sometimes he would just say in advance that I need not to prepare obento for him for lunch then he would surprise me with a message at my cellphone to go out for lunch with him ^_^

Well anyway, we went to Wa-Wa-Wa which is just a minute walk from Iwaki Station ~ a two storey standing and dining bar and they also serve lunch menu. The first floor is a standing bar ( but they also have chairs to those who doesn't like standing while having a drink) and with a huge projector. Wa-Wa-Wa's second floor is kind-a-cozy and romantic. They always change their lunch menus and the lunch set for that day was Loco-moco Don, a Hawaiian meal in a bowl~ white rice with a bed of veggies plus a hamburger patty with a tasty sauce and poached egg over it was just amazing.

Wa-Wa-Wa's Fish Carpaccio with wasabi dressing, Tomato Bruschetta and Mashed Potato starters made a great impression

Loco Moco Don

I love breaking the runny golden yolk with fork ^_^

Dolce: Tiramisu

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Tel. 0246-23-2488
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Mommy Moments- Home

I would like to share with you our second home~ we've been missing this home which is a 20 km away from Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant in Fukushima and is inside the danger zone. My PIL has to leave this home because of the radiation level ( I can't hold my tears as I was writing this ) that could harm their health and sad to say that my husband's hometown now seems like a 'ghost town'. Everybody has evacuated the area including their livelihood...

I guess you're wondering why I preferred to write about my PIL's home~ my kids spend their first few years at their Grannies home and they grew up with them. They played with their cousins and tend to their favorite dog, Shiro. Wakaba blurted out one day that she wants some corn and I told her that I would buy her some at the market but she told me that 'she wants the corn from their Grannies farm' and it's kind-a hurting me knowing that it would take awhile for us to come back. And I'm sure that the one's hurting the most is my PIL, BIL, SIL and hubby~ he grew up there and has so many memories. It was hard for them to leave their home and their livelihood but there was nothing else that they could do but HOPE and PRAY. I'm praying for the day that we could all be together again at our home in Namie.
Peace - that was the other name for home.

~ Kathleen Norris ~
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.
~ Author Unkown ~

Where thou art- that- is Home.
~ Emily Dickinson ~

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~ Jane Austen ~

Home is a shelter from storms- all sorts of storms.
~ William J. Bennett ~

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
~ Henry Van Dyke ~

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
~ Robert Montgomery ~

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.

~ May Sarton ~

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.
~Ellie Rodriguez ~
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Gaga Over Pretty Cure

Wakaba and Haruka is a big fan of Pretty Cure and they both love to imitate the anime dances, songs etc. They're both a lover of all-things-magical-girl! Sometimes you would just hear them saying some lines of the anime that would end fighting with their Dad as the ' bad guy' lol! Sharing with you a homevideo of them taken year 2009, this video makes me smile ^_^


Isn't it so much fun to go back and just yank them all out and just sit there and reminisce? ^_^

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