Drawing a cat

When I started homeschooling my son in December last year, I had the impression that he didn't know how to draw anything all by himself.  I had not seen him draw anything independently, although I noticed that he loved connecting dots and tracing dotted lines. He appeared to abhor coloring, and I devoted extra time to train him to tolerate, if not like,  coloring pictures.

In January I discovered that he already knows how to draw the parts of a human face -- eyes, nose, mouth -- inside an oval representing the

Brownies for Mom

My wife is one of the lucky moms who receive Happy Mother's Day greetings twice a year -- one on the second Sunday of May, the Mother's Day in the Philippines and another in many other countries, and on August 12, Thailand's Mother's Day which is also Queen Sirikit's birthday.


For the first Mother's Day celebration of the year, my son and I gave her a cherry and walnut brownies adorned