Boston was sunny at the end of October. I visited Rachel, my friend in Waltham, at her home and commented on how her twin boy and girl are much taller now. Rachel smiled: “Soon I will be the shortest one in my family.”

We were very happy to see each other after I moved to California. We chatted about my life in San Jose, California and her life in Waltham, Massachusetts. Rachel talked about her full-time teaching career at a middle school. She is teaching three courses this semester: interior design, preschool education, and sewing. In addition, she is taking a college course on weekends to earn credits for her teacher’s license in Massachusetts.

I thought interior design is a college course. Hearing Rachel teach this course at a middle school, I asked curiously, “I thought interior design is a college course. How do you teach middle school students interior design?”

Rachel explained to me that the basic elements of interior design are: space utilization, light utilization, color matching, and overall pattern and texture coordination. In her class of interior design for middle school students, she broke each element into a unit. In the space unit, she talks about one, two and three dimensional space utilization, then ask her students to complete an assignment to show their understanding and use of space. After finishing all the units, her students will present a room designed by themselves.

I asked her about how they could present a room in class.

Rachel said her students will present a virtual room, not a physical room, online.”

Rachel also said, “Our school has many students who just immigrated from Brazil. Because of the shortage of ESL (English as a second language) teachers, our school offered limited ESL classes. The Brazilian students who can’t attend the ESL classes have to stay in the student cafe.”

I asked Rachel curiously: “What classes can the Brazilian students take without the ESL teachers?”

Rachel said: “They can take classes that don’t require profound English language skill, such as interior design and sewing classes. In interior design classes, I purposely wrote down important Portuguese corresponding to English in the lecture notes and assignment requirements to help my Brazilian students learn well in the classroom and to do their assignments faster and better.”

I exclaimed: “Before you knew it, you already started the bilingual course of interior design class and became a ESL interior design teacher, very creative!”

Rachel said that she asked the students in the sewing class to make bibs for the kindergarteners and she was impressed by a Chinese girl who followed the instruction and made good bibs very quickly.

I always enjoy chatting with Rachel and listening to the vivid stories of her unique experiences along with her observations and her creativities. Rachel was very busy and she looked very energetic and happy. We took a photo together happily before I left.

（Rachel and I in her house, 10-30-2022.）

Rachel今年秋季去一所新的中学当全职老师，给初中学生上三门课：室内装饰、幼儿教育、和缝纫课；周末在修课攒学分拿麻州的教师执照。听起来Rachel的时间很紧，看上去她很精神很开心。

我一直认为室内装饰非常专业，听到Rachel在给初中生上这门课，就好奇地问：“室内装饰很专业吧，怎么教中学生呀？”

Rachel说：“室内装饰的基本元素有：线、面、和立体的空间利用、采光利用、颜色搭配、和整体配合。给中学生上室内装饰的课，一个元素是一个单元。先讲空间利用，平面的和立体的；然后要求学生完成一个展示空间利用的课题作业。讲完所有单元后让学生综合所学知识布置出一个房间来。”

我又问道：“怎么布置出一个房间？”

Rachel说：“在网上布置出来一个虚拟房间，不是布置一个实体房间。”

Rachel又说：“我们学校来了好多巴西移民的学生，因为ESL（English as a second language) 老师不够，没课上的巴西学生就只好集中在学生食堂里。”

公立学校紧缺给英语作为第二语言的学生上课的老师（ESL）是一个长期问题，因为我去年偶遇的ESL数学老师Elisse说过她退休后又回去教书是因为学校缺ESL老师，也听说州政府给ESL老师颁奖鼓励更多人成为ESL老师。

我好奇地问Rachel：“在没有ESL老师的情况下巴西学生可以上什么课？”

Rachel说：“可以上室内装饰、幼儿教育、和缝纫课这些对书面语言要求不高也不深奥的课。我在室内装饰课的教材讲稿和作业要求中特意把一些重要的英文对应的葡萄牙语写出来帮助懂葡萄牙语的巴西学生更快更好地理解课堂知识和作业要求。”

我赞叹道：“不知不觉你就开启了室内装饰双语课，当上兼职的ESL老师了，好有创意呀！”

Rachel还说她让上缝纫课的学生为幼儿班的小朋友做围嘴，缝纫班里有一位华裔女孩子做围嘴又快又好。

我很喜欢和Rachel聊天，喜欢听她有声有色的故事里的观察力和独创力。

小插曲

（2022-10-30，在Rachel家和她合影留念）

The COVID-19 pandemic has lasted for more than a year now, so conventional social gatherings have also stopped for more than a year.

In the middle of May, the weather is getting warmer but not hot, and the school spring semester will soon be finished, well-respected Professor W commented about the more than 2-hour long gathering celebrating his retirement as “the most pleasant surprise” this year. These words, the time, and the weather stirred a longing for a gathering among my daughter’s friends, including the retired professors. Everyone was enthusiastic for a recital. Professor A prepared an opening speech for the recital, Professor W will bring his own sound system and saxophone to play, Grace and Shirah practiced together for a piano and vocal piece.

Due to COVID-19, the originally planned indoor recital moved outdoors, in Rachel and Carey’s backyard, and it is called “A Garden Recital”. Rachel invested lots of time and resources on this garden recital by planting many flowers in their backyard. My daughter bought a big tent, as the weather forecast predicted rain on Sunday afternoon. Rachel prepared cheese, fruits salad, and baked cakes ahead of time. She also bought a few 2-Tier or 3-tier cake stand fruit plates.

At noon on Sunday, Alex, Carey and I set up the tent in Rachel and Carey’s backyard. Their four children brought the food, drink, and utensils to the garden and set up the chairs too. Grace and Lou brought their electronic piano from home. Shirah brought home-made self wrapped sweets too. A few of us were busy working from noon to 2:00 pm to stage the backyard for a garden recital of sixteen attendants. This preparation experience helped me realize that the hostess who is hosting a family garden recital is indeed a warm-hearted capable organizer. Thanks Rachel!

The early summer family garden recital was very successful. Professor A’s opening speech was focused on his research area, Grace played the piano, Shirah sang a few Italian and German opera songs, some with Grace playing piano, some just by herself. Rachel and Carey’s twin played the instruments that they will be playing in their school concerts soon. Professor W. brought his own sound system and played a few pieces of music on his saxophone. After the garden recital, we all enjoyed the delicious food prepared by Rachel, chatted about little episodes with keeping social distance during this pandemic, and little stories of family members.

Today, Rachel showed me the new additions to her garden, I learned that a white flower is called bleeding heart and wondered why a white flower got such a blood name. After the recital, Martha and I enjoyed the beautiful flowers in the garden and she pointed to the bleeding heart and commented: “The shape of this flower is like a heart, a small drop of red from the heart shaped flower, so it looks like the heart is bleeding.”

Little Episodes

At the opening of the garden recital, Professor A gave a speech. Rachel and Carey’s children were sitting outside the tent. Here under the tent sat: Maratha, Professor W and his wife, Lou, Alex, my daughter, Grace, Shirah, Carey, Justin, and Rachel.

The chairs in the garden recital:

The food prepared by Rachel:

Rachel was chatting (from left to right):
Shirah, Grace, Rachel, Professor A., Lou, Martha, Professor W. and his wife:

Alex, Rachel, and Lou:

Shirah, Grace, Rachel, and Lou:

Pretty Shirah and Grace with Lou:

Two days later, I found the bleeding heart flower described by Martha:

It’s sunny and cold outside today. Although Thanksgiving has passed by for more than a week, the Thanksgiving flowers are still in bloom in the living room vase. The red rose from the last day of November is still lively in the December dining room. The impatience in the kitchen will bloom again. From the dining room to the living room to the kitchen, the flowers in the vase and the flower buds in the pot make me feel refreshed, because the joy brought by flowers is always a very real sort of energy.

The impatience bud was eye-catching. Watching the red-rose-colored impatience bud gorgeously set off by the green leaves, I remembered the impatience was given to me by Rachel before the cold weather this year after she had transplanted it from her garden to the pot. She told me, “The impatience likes sun so placing it by a window with direct sunlight is good”.

I put the impatience by the window above the kitchen sink after we moved to our new house. The impatience seems to enjoy the new place as soon after it settled down, it started to grow flower buds, in red-rose-colored single-layer flowers which would bloom occasionally. Whenever the impatience is blooming, I always tell Rachel, “the impatience blooms again. It’s beautiful!”, because Rachel cares about the flowers she gave me. I joked with my daughter: “Rachel is one of my favorite people because she likes to send me flowers. She sent me a pot of dahlias in summer and a pot of purple chrysanthemums in autumn. The impatience she gave me in October is so lovely as it is the first flower to bloom after we moved to our new home.”

I always thought the impatience bloomed only in the summer so I was very happy to see it blooming in the winter. The impatience will always remind me of Rachel and our many sweet gatherings in 2021.

In March, we had homemade dessert in her new house.
On Easter Sunday, we hid eggs in her garden and played games together.
In May 16th, we had a Garden Recital to celebrate the end of the 2021 Spring Semester in her garden.
In June, Rachel invited me to attend her twin children’s school concert recital and to celebrate her eldest daughter’s junior high school graduation.
We had my favorite crepes in her home when my son visited us in July. Homemade crepes were so delicious.
In September, she gave me the zucchini grown in her garden and a pot of purple chrysanthemums.
In October, I chatted with her in-laws who came from Seattle to visit her family.
At the end of October, Rachel’s family came to help us with moving.
She made crepes on Thanksgiving Saturday in my house.
In early December, Rachel took time to go shopping with us so we can enjoy her 20% employee discount.

Looking at the impatience quietly, I also remember my childhood past time of smashing the impatience petals and painting them on my fingernails to dye my nails, the impatience was multi-layered on a long stem at that time.

People love flowers, flowers are pleasant. Human love can be nicely passed on via flowers.

Little Episodes

Blooming impatience:

Flowers at home today：impatience, the Thanksgiving flowers, the November red roses.

09-25-2021，purple chrysanthemums

07-09-2021，my son was preparing the crepes filling sausages in Rachel’s house.

05-16-2021， Rachel and I in her garden:

03－13-2021，Dessert made by Rachel:

Our many sweet gatherings in 2021.

指甲花是今年天冷之前Rachel从她的花园里移栽到花盆后送我的，她说：“指甲花喜欢阳光，适合放在有阳光的窗户边”。

指甲花跟着我们乔迁新居后，我就把它放在厨房水槽上的窗户边；它似乎很喜欢那个地方，落户不久就时有花苞，星星点点间歇地开着玫瑰红色的单层花。指甲花开时，我总会告诉Rachel：“指甲花又开了，很美！” 因为Rachel很关心她送给我的花。我和女儿开玩笑：“Rachel是我最喜欢的人之一，因为她喜欢送我花。夏天她送了我一盆大丽菊，秋天又送了我一盆紫菊花。十月份送的指甲花最招人爱，因为到新家不久就开始开花。”

我以为指甲花只在夏天开花，看着厨房水槽上窗户边的指甲花在冬天开花，我很开心。因此指甲花总会让我想到Rachel以及今年我们丰富多彩的相聚，在2021年的最后一个月里。

3月我们去她家吃她做的甜点。
4月复活节我们去她家藏彩蛋玩游戏。
5月我们去参加在她家举办的花园音乐会。
6月我去学校听她的双胞胎儿女的音乐会和去她家一起庆祝她大女儿初中毕业。
7月我们去她那吃私家薄煎饼。
9月她送来自己种的西葫芦和一盆紫菊花。
10月我们去她家与她从西雅图来的岳父岳母小聚聊天。
10月末，Rachel全家出动来帮我们搬东西。
11月感恩节的周六她来我家做薄煎饼。
12月初，Rachel带我们去买东西享受她的20%雇员优惠。

静静地看着指甲花，我还想起捣碎指甲花瓣涂在手指甲上染色的童趣，那时的指甲花是多层开在一根高高的干茎上。凤仙花是指甲花的一种好听的别名。

人爱花，花悦人。人间爱，花传情。

小插曲

盛开的指甲花：

今天家里开着的花：指甲花、感恩节的花、11月末的红玫瑰：

2021-09-25，开得正欢的紫菊花：

2021-07-09，儿子在Rachel 家下厨帮忙准备crepes的一种肉馅，火腿肠：

2021-05-16, Rachel和我在她的花园里：

2021-03－13，Rachel做的甜点：

2021年，Rachel和我丰富多彩的相聚：

07-90-2021, Friday, Rain

In the afternoon, my daughter told me: “Rachel invited us to have crepes for dinner tonight.” However, I didn’t realize that crepes were my favorite western sweets. It seems that English, which is not my mother-tongue, needed to take a longer route to reach my memories.

When we arrived at Rachel’s house at six in the afternoon, she and her younger son were practicing cutting skills in the kitchen. She was chopping and dicing apples, and her chopping board was already full of diced apples. D. her younger son, is cutting bananas. A. her eldest one, was looking after the Western sausages on the baking pan.

After Rachel mixed the diced apples with butter, cinnamon powder, and vanilla extract and put them into a non stick pot to cook, I took over the job to stir the diced apples.

We stood side-by-side next to the stove counter top. I stirred the diced apples and enjoyed the smell of cinnamon apples. Rachel skillfully added sugar and water to the frozen blueberries in a pot and stirred the blueberries to make fresh jam.

I asked Rachel curiously, “Are the crepes we’re eating tonight the same dessert you made for us last Thanksgiving?”

“No, the dessert I made last Thanksgiving was called turnovers,” Rachel said.

After the diced apples got soft, I got another job to make scrambled eggs from Rachel. While frying the scrambled egg with 12 eggs, I said, “Wow, I am frying 12 eggs for the first time in my life.”

Rachel laughed when she hears it: “experiencing what it means to be in a big family.”

When Rachel started making crepes, I realized that she was making the Western dessert that I really like. So I felt excited.

While making the crepes, Rachel said: “In my last semester’s cooking class, making crepes was the most popular lesson for my students. For this year’s cooking summer camp, I will also let students make crepes. L and D (my younger daughter and my older son) will also participate in the cooking summer camp. ”

I asked: “What ingredients do you usually use as fillings for crepes?”

“Chocolate, raisins, strawberries, bananas, jam etc.” Rachel said.

There are nine people for today’s crepes dinner, each of us had a big plate. After Rachel put the crepe on the big plate, everyone went to pick their favorite fillings to pile on the crepes to enjoy their own flavor of crepes.

I divided my crepe into two: half was for sweet fillings, as the sweets were freshly made, it tasted very refreshing. The other half was for salty fillings and it was also very satisfying.

Crepes are a Western dessert I like very much. “Enjoying crepes in the United States is always a warm sweet experience for me, because crepes crosses my European, American, and Asian memories.” The first time I tasted crepes was in Germany. Eating crepes always brings back my memory of eating DanHongGao in Sichuan: soft and light sweetness.

After participating in the preparation of crepe fillings at Rachel’s home tonight, and eating Rachel’s homemade crepes, my memory of crepes had the warm feeling of being part of a big family now.

Little Episodes

1. Crepes for dinner by Rachel:
Rachel is making crepes：

Rachel’s choice of crepe fillings for tonight:
The salty fillings: scrambled eggs, Western sausages and tomato sauce.
The Sweet fillings: sliced strawberry, banana, cinnamon apple, blueberry jam, and pudding

My son who is visiting us from California is cutting the sausage.

My half crepes with sweet fillings:

2. Crepes dough recipe ：
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs
½ cup milk
½ cup water
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter, melted
Rachel said：“After mixing well, let it stay for an hour.”

女儿下午说：“Rachel请我们去她家吃crepes。” 我没有反应过来crepes就是我喜欢的那西式甜点薄煎饼。看来非母语在脑子里要多绕几个圈才能触及灵魂深处。

我们下午六点到Rachel家时，她和小儿子正在厨房里练刀功。她在削苹果和切苹果丁，她的切菜板上已经堆满了苹果丁。D，她的小儿子,在切香蕉。A，她大女儿,在翻着烤炉上的西式小香肠。

Rachel把苹果丁和黄油、桂皮粉、香草精搅拌均匀后放入不粘锅里煮上之后，我上手帮忙照看和搅拌煮着的苹果丁。

Rachel开始用冻蓝莓熬制新鲜果酱，我俩并肩站在炉台边。我搅拌着苹果丁，享受着桂皮苹果的浓浓香气味。Rachel一边熟练地往蓝莓的锅里添加糖和水，一边搅拌着蓝莓。

我好奇地问Rachel：“今晚我们吃的crepes就是去年感恩节你给我们吃的那个像口袋的甜点吗？”

Rachel说：“不是，去年感恩节我做的甜点叫turnovers。”

苹果丁煮软后，我从Rachel那拿到炒鸡蛋的任务。我用12个鸡蛋炒一个scrambled eggs（芙蓉蛋）。炒着蛋时我说：“哇，今生第一次炒12个鸡蛋。”

Rachel听到后笑了：“体会一下大家庭的感觉。”

当Rachel开始做crepes时，我才知道我们今晚是吃薄煎饼，我很喜欢的一道西式甜点。Rachel一边摊饼，一边和我聊天。

Rachel说：“我上一学期上的烹调课里，薄煎饼是最受学生欢迎的一节课。今年的烹调夏令营我也会让学生做薄煎饼，L和D（小女儿和大儿子）也会参加烹调夏令营。”

我问道：“你一般用哪些原料堆放到薄煎饼？”

Rachel说：“巧克力，葡萄干、草莓、香蕉、果酱等等都可以用。”

今天的crepes晚餐一共有九个人，每人一个大盘子，当Rachel把摊好的薄饼放到大盘子之后，大家就各自去选择自己喜欢的堆放原料，吃合自己口味的薄煎饼。

我把我的薄饼一分为二，一半饼堆放甜味，因为甜食都是刚做的，吃起来新鲜爽口；另一半饼堆放咸味，吃得心满意足。

薄煎饼是我很喜欢的一道西式甜点。“在美国吃薄煎饼（crepes）总有一种暖流涓涓，清欢淡淡的感觉，因为薄煎饼里有着我欧美亚的经历”。我第一次尝薄煎饼是在德国，吃薄煎饼总唤起在四川吃蛋烘糕的感觉：软软的淡淡的甜味。今晚在Rachel家里参与堆放原料准备和加工，尝到了Rachel的私家薄煎饼之后，我记忆中的薄煎饼增添了大家庭的温馨感觉。

小插曲

1. Rachel操办的薄煎饼晚餐：
Rachel在摊薄煎饼：

Rachel为今晚挑选的薄煎饼堆放料（两味）：
咸味的是芙蓉蛋、西式小香肠、番茄酱
甜味的是草莓、香蕉、桂皮苹果丁、蓝莓酱、布丁（pudding）

从加州过来玩的儿子在帮助切火腿肠。

我的甜味薄煎饼：

2. 西式薄煎饼的配方和做法：
1 cup all-purpose flour （一杯面粉）
2 eggs （两个鸡蛋）
½ cup milk （半杯牛奶）
½ cup water （半杯水）
¼ teaspoon salt （1/4 茶匙盐）
2 tablespoons butter, melted （2大汤匙溶化的黄油）
Rachel说：“混合好后静置一个小时再摊，这样摊出来的薄饼不容易裂开。”

01-20-2021

Rachel is Carey’s wife, and Carey is my daughter’s classmate. Rachel and Carey have four children in middle or elementary school and two of their children are girl and boy twins.

Before I met Rachel, I had already heard from my daughter and Grace, my daughter’s other classmate, that Rachel is good at making delicious desserts, because her husband, Carey, brought Rachel’s sweets to the department for everyone to share.

In February 2020, before the COVID-19 quarantine, my daughter invited Grace’s and Carey’s family over to our house for a gathering. I finally met Rachel and tasted her fruit tart, which was both delicious and beautiful. Later the same three families had a gathering in Rachel’s place, and Rachel made a plateful of meat egg rolls. We all liked the tasty egg rolls. Rachel joked: “I made the meat egg rolls to show you that Rachel is not only good at making desserts.” Her humor made us laugh.

Rachel had been a missionary to the Philippines for about a year, so she is familiar with Asians and Asian Culture. I enjoy chatting with Rachel and listening to her funny stories. In one of our conversations, I knew that Rachel underwent a big surgery a few years back. After the surgery, she could only drink liquid food and she had no appetite at all. At that time, her body sometimes suffered unbearable pain and fatigue. While mentioning that difficult time, she said: “I believed in spirit power. As my ancestors came from Scotland, I often listen to Scottish special music during the difficult time after my surgery. I really felt the music gave me strength to recover.” Rachel’s words expressed her strong and cheerful will mixed together let me realize that everyone had suffered or is suffering…But strength will will pull us through. As a result, I admire Rachel’s cheerful and outspoken nature very much.

2020′s COVID-19 made parents stop their children from “Trick or treat”ing door-to-door as usual, which caused the Halloween tradition to lose its beauty. When Rachel invited me to join her family on Halloween to “watch the kids fumble around in the dark”, I was filled with wonder.

Halloween in 2020 is also September 15th in the lunar calendar, that night had a full moon in the sky and snow on the ground, it was indeed a beautify snowy winter night. In the evening, Rachel and her children dressed up in Halloween costumes came out, I walked with them to the woods. In the woods, Rachel passed fully-charged flash lights to her children and told them to use the flashlight to look for plastic bags filled with candies in the woods. Earlier, Rachel prepared the plastic bags filled with candies and hid the bags in the woods, so her children could enjoy candy hunting in the evening because door-to-door “trick or treat” was discouraged in 2020.

Under the full moon, the flashlights shone in the snowy dark woods at random places while the children were hunting for candies, which made for an unforgettable scene. I admired Rachel as a loving, creative, and capable mother, because she had created and directed a unique stage for her children to enjoy harvesting candies in a totally different way for Halloween in 2020.

2020′s quarantine created opportunities for Rachel and I to become good friends.

Little Episodes

The beautiful and tasty dessert made by Rachel (02-19-2020)

(School on break for a week, students on a evening gathering. Finally got a chance to taste chef Rachel’s secret recipe of fruit tart. Beautiful and tasty. I enjoyed the sweetness, which also boosted my immunization.)

Rachel self wrote and directed a stage for candy hunting on Halloween night. Sky and the ground, a unforgettable night.

(Hunting for candy: this year’s Halloween had no “Trick or treat”. A very creative mother planned ahead and hid bags of candies in the woods earlier, so her children could use flashlights to hunt for candies in the dark night. Under the big moon, in the snowy woods, hunting for candies, blaming the pandemic for this. Between the sky and the ground, Rachel made a unforgettable night.)

Rachel and I at the beginning of 2021.

2021-01-20
Rachel是Carey的太太，Carey是我女儿的同学。Rachel和Carey有四个上中学和小学的孩子，其中一对是龙凤双胞胎。我认识Rachel之前就听女儿和Grace说过Rachel做的甜点超好吃！因为Carey曾把Rachel的甜点带到系上给大家品尝。

2020年2月，COVID-19居家令之前，女儿请她同学Grace和Carey及家人来我们家小聚，那是我第一次吃到Rachel做的甜点，名不虚传，好看好吃。后来我女儿、Grace、Carey及家人在Rachel的家里小聚时，Rachel做了一大盘肉蛋卷，大家都说非常好吃。Rachel开玩笑道：“我做这个蛋卷是让你们知道，Rachel不只会做好吃的甜点。” 她幽默的语气让我们都乐了。

Rachel曾在菲律宾支教过，所以她对亚裔及亚裔文化不陌生，我喜欢和她在一起聊天，听她讲风趣的故事。在聊天中我知道她做过一次大手术，手术之后一段时间只能吃流食又没有食欲，身体很不适应有时痛苦难熬。Rachel谈及那段经历时说：“我相信神灵的力量，我的祖先来自苏格兰，手术之后最困难的时候我经常听苏格兰的特色音乐，我觉得那音乐真的给了我力量。” Rachel言语中流露的坚强意念和我所感受到她的开朗性格让我明白每个人都经历过或经历着苦难……苦难中需要意念。 因此我很佩服开朗健谈的Rachel。

2020年疫情让家长们都不鼓励孩子在鬼节挨家挨户地去讨糖，这让鬼节传统的“Trick or treat”失去了魅力。Rachel邀请我鬼节去看孩子们在黑夜里跌跌闯闯（watch the kids fumble around in the dark)时，我还满是疑问。

2020年的鬼节是农历9月15日，那晚天上有满月，地上有积雪，是一个很有情趣的雪夜。晚上，Rachel和四个孩子穿上鬼节服装一起出门,我和他们来到一个林子里，Rachel递给每个孩子一个电筒，让孩子们在林子里打着电筒找糖。原来Rachel预先在林子里藏了装着糖果的塑料袋，让孩子们在不讨糖的现状下仍然有收获糖果的快乐。看着孩子们在大月亮下的雪林里晃着电筒找糖，是一道难忘的奇观。我赞叹Rachel是个有爱心有创意能干的妈妈，自编自导为孩子们创造了一个享受鬼节收获糖果的别致舞台。

2020年的COVID－19让我和Rachel成了好朋友。

小插曲

Rachel的好看好吃的甜点：

（美甜点：学校放假一周，学生小聚一次。有机会尝到烘培高手送上门的私家秘制水果糕。好看好吃，吃出好心情，增强免疫力。）

Rachel为孩子们自编自导的鬼节黑夜找糖的舞台，天地人间，难忘今宵。


（找糖去： 今年鬼节不去串门讨糖了。有创意的妈妈事先把糖放在林子里，晚上让孩子门打着手电在林子里找糖去。在大月亮下在有残雪的林子里找糖，怪疫情恼人。天地人间，难忘今宵。）

2021年之初，Rachel和我。